The takedown of Jason Arday has overjoyed the right, and must be a wake-up call for the left | Jason Okundaye

The Cambridge academic has rightly now resigned. But that won’t end the targeting of senior black figures or the lazy way institutions promote faux equality, says Guardian columnist Jason Okundaye

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Women’s Aid Reveals ‘The Other ‘Kick Off’ Time Thousands of Women Dread During the World Cup  - Women’s Aid

Women’s Aid Reveals ‘The Other ‘Kick Off’ Time Thousands of Women Dread During the World Cup

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How (not) to organise a panel at a global health conference

Global health is unfortunately not very global—a contradiction that becomes most evident at global health conferences. Although convened to advance the field of global health, these conferences often ...

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Ruined utopias: the afterlife of the Amazon’s forgotten company towns – in pictures

For decades, foreign firms established settlements in the Brazilian Amazon to support extractive activities, only to eventually abandon the buildings and workers. The remains show human resilience as ...

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At least 3.3m people were victims of Dutch enslavement, research claims

Figure is more than five times the widely used 600,000 figure cited in apologies by king and politicians

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The choice before Europe: the law of the strongest or reparative justice?

European nations are starting to pay attention after a landmark UN resolution, but reparations is about more than symbolic remembrance or returning stolen artefacts

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Windrush Day: Meet the London women who helped rebuild Britain

From a large house with a veranda to living in one room - Windrush Londoners share their stories.

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Homes, not harm

London’s housing system breaches basic standards of humanity, with racism embedded at its core.

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From bendy bananas to £350m for the NHS – how many Brexit promises actually came true?

Leaving the EU was supposed to solve Britain’s border issues, slash bureaucracy, revitalise the health service, even supercharge vacuum cleaners. How much control did we really take back?

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Keir Starmer resigns, as Andy Burnham confirms he will run to replace him as Labour leader and PM

Wes Streeting - who was seen as a possible challenger to Burnham in a leadership contest - says he backs the former Greater Manchester mayor.

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Two-thirds of EU citizens back UK rejoining bloc, survey finds

Poll also finds three quarters of people in Britain want closer ties, with majority accepting free movement

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UK could keep special pre-Brexit terms if it rejoined EU, Michel Barnier says

Exclusive: Former chief Brexit negotiator says staying out of euro and Schengen area would be ‘perfectly possible’

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How Brexit has made Britain poorer – in charts

Forecasters were wrong about an immediate recession but right that we would be worse off outside the EU

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Clarendon Scholarships 2027 at Oxford University (Fully Funded)

Apply for the fully funded Clarendon Scholarships 2027-2028 at the University of Oxford. Open to international students for Master & PhD degrees in any academic discipline. No separate application req...

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He told us we were slaves - The fight for justice on a Scottish fishing trawler

The migrant fishermen who waited nine years to give evidence about the company that exploited them.

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British Gas faces record £112m settlement over prepayment meter scandal

Redress to customers for force-fitting devices in homes includes £20m penalty and £70m of debt write-offs

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Britain should seek to rejoin EU, says civil servant who led Brexit department

Philip Rycroft says promises on issues from economics to immigration have not lived up to expectations

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Human rights in shadow of centuries of scientific racism

Although human rights, equality and dignity are now enshrined globally – and even celebrated in South Africa on Human Rights Day on 21 March – an ...

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Ghana Leads Historic UN Vote Declaring Slave Trade the Gravest Crime Against Humanity

The United Nations General Assembly has voted to designate the Transatlantic Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and the system of racialised chattel enslavement as “the gravest crime against humanity.”…

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EU Commission loses another access to documents court case

NGO ClientEarth asked to see documents about a controversial pesticide approval, which the EU executive refused.

politico.eu

Raising outcomes for racially minoritised women on doctoral degrees in England

Racially minoritised women remain significantly underrepresented and unevenly supported across doctoral education in England. Doctoral education plays a critical gatekeeping role in shaping the future...

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The growing market for student academic misconduct services - LSE Impact

A growing market for student academic misconduct services is increasingly outsourcing research ethics in higher education institutions.

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Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars

The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.

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University systems need to ditch the ‘average mind’ idea

Systems built around statistical averages frequently fail because human variation is not marginal but fundamental. While this insight has been applied...

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France says surprised by European Commission presence at Board of Peace

France said on Thursday it was surprised that the European Commission had sent a commissioner to the Board of Peace in Washington saying it did not have the mandate to represent member states, its for...

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