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A four-day week can work – if staff and employers can deal with the challenges

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29 July 202431 July 2024

It sounds like a dream for many people currently working five days a week: how about just doing four days and having a long weekend? When the weekends feel too...Read More >

What a House of Commons with fewer privately educated MPs could mean for the UK

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26 July 202431 July 2024

Elected leaders and representatives across democracies tend to be old, wealthy, male and belong to the ethnic majority of their respective countries. This lack of diversity is a problem: it suggests that those who govern are out of...Read More >

LGBTQ+ Travel Tool: What happened next

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24 July 202423 July 2024

The LGBTQ+ International Travel for Work Policy Development Tool won the Research Impact category at this year’s Research Awards. In this blog, the tool’s creators, Frances Hamilton and Tahlia-Rose Virdee...Read More >

Transforming how NATO does human security

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22 July 202431 July 2024

Dr Alexander Gilder shares his story of how his PhD and early career research has led to impact and knowledge exchange. In 2016 I embarked on a PhD in Law...Read More >

Issuing arrest warrant for Israeli PM will make bad law – comment

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19 July 202419 July 2024

Hard cases make bad law. The request for the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant is a very...Read More >

Unseen annihilation: Illegal fishing practices and nautical patrol

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17 July 202423 July 2024

The growth of industrial fishing since the 1950s has led to widespread and critical marine defaunation. Although a host of at-sea and in-port regulations attempt to prevent illegal fishing practices,...Read More >

Nato’s Washington summit will need to tackle Russian sabotage and myriad security threats

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3 July 202428 June 2024

The leaders of Nato member states will meet in Washington DC in a few weeks and one of the topics of discussion will be how to tackle escalating incidents of Russian sabotage....Read More >

Collapsed FTX exchange plans to repay investors – this could be a fresh start for crypto

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3 June 20243 June 2024

Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX recently announced that the majority of creditors who lost money in its bankruptcy scandal will be repaid their missing funds. This has become possible now – 18 months...Read More >

Understanding rising antisemitism since 7th October

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22 May 202422 May 2024

A major new anthology on contemporary antisemitism, co-edited by Professor Rosa Freedman, will be published this month. Ahead of the book launch at a free event in London, Professor Freedman...Read More >

How supermarkets are changing their branding to make you think they’re cheaper

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21 May 202429 May 2024

UK shoppers have specific preferences when it comes to their favourite supermarkets. M&S was voted as the best in a recent survey, followed closely by German discounter Aldi (Waitrose, Tesco and...Read More >