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How will the UK balance its relationship with the two global superpowers?
Blighty is in the shop window like never before. And it needs a makeover.
Nigerians, as well as other Africans, need to actively work to decolonise social arrangements created by the British.
Why ‘one country, two systems’ has failed to guarantee democratic freedoms in Hong Kong
The Boxgrove people, like all other human species, were capable of sharing time, care and knowledge in all parts of their life.
Between trade and traditional security alliances, New Zealand is being pulled in opposite directions over China. A new foreign policy is urgently needed.
We can celebrate Dame Vera while rejecting racist myths about Second World War Britain and those who seek to use Lynn to advance a xenophobic nostalgia.
Cameroon’s anglophone crisis is not simply a dispute between two feuding groups: a range of international actors have been architects of the current situation.
People who support Brexit want different results from the UK’s departure from the EU – and they can’t all get what they want.
New research reveals remarkable evidence of a copper-mining bonanza in Wales that was so productive the metal reached France, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.
People who moved away from Britain’s coal-mining areas have genetic profiles linked to higher educational attainment and better health than those who stayed.
Why doesn’t China put down the protests in Hong Kong? Maybe it doesn’t want to.
Just what is Boris Johnson, the UK’s new prime minister: a liberal or conservative? A historian writing a book about Brexit, the focus of much of Johnson’s career, says the man is hard to pin down.
It’s hard to say if, legally, not paying the Brexit bill will classify as a sovereign default. But credit agencies will take serious notice.
Councils have sold off vast amounts of land since 2014 – land that was previously used for important public services.
Three scholars react to the spectacle, finger-pointing and long-term harms of the stalemate in British Parliament.
Mistaken links between the EU and the European Convention on Human Rights could be one factor that sees the UK losing out on these vital supranational laws.
The consequences of Brexit mean Australian exporters need to stop focusing on Britain and think more about Europe.
Since 1997, the ways people in the UK define their nationality has rapidly changed.
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour, Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, The Open University
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Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Professor of Criminology, University of Sussex
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Professor of Economics, University of Bath
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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Visiting Fellow, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex; University of Tartu; Utrecht University
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