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When theatres shuttered during the COVID-19 lockdowns, performing arts institutions that had resisted digital programming for decades suddenly pivoted overnight, livestreaming productions, releasing archival recordings and experimenting with hybrid and transmedial performances that blurred the line between stage and screen.

For many disabled, elderly, chronically ill, ...


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Protecting academic freedom and human rights is foundational to the idea of the university as a community of scholars engaged in intellectual enquiry for its own sake. The ideal of a university as a space where ideas can be pursued without political, religious or commercial pressure is central. Ever since John Henry Newman, a high-profile convert to Catholicism, lectured on t...


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Immigration policy is one of the most contested areas of contemporary politics. It is also one of the most misunderstood. Public debate often degenerates to trading numbers – how many people are coming in, and whether that number is too high or too low – but as Madeleine Sumption argues, the reality is both more complex and more difficult to resolve than that suggests...


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Special Economic Zones (SEZs) are geographically delineated areas established to facilitate foreign direct investment (FDI) and job creation. SEZs are frequently promoted as engines of development in many countries and regions of the Global South.

Jamaica offers a particularly revealing case study of these dynamics.

For five decades, development policy narrative...


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Victims of the Post Office scandal went through the most unimaginable torment as they were wrongly accused of fraud and false accounting based on computer evidence known to be flawed. Many were convicted and subsequently j...


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