The Conversation

Ten years after the Modern Slavery Act, why has this ‘world-leading’ legislation had so little impact?

March 27, 2025

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Police struggle to identify the riskiest domestic abuse perpetrators – here’s how they can do better

March 19, 2025

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Why thinking about ageing is so complex when you’re a woman in your 20s today

March 13, 2025

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How should Labour and the Tories respond to the populist right? Lessons from Europe

March 7, 2025

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Ditches and canals are a big, yet overlooked, source of greenhouse gas emissions – new study

‘He knows how to make sure that there is no evidence’: when your domestic violence abuser is a police officer

February 28, 2025

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James Bond is now controlled by Amazon – the franchise’s history holds clues to the future of 007

February 24, 2025

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Cottontail review: how a man’s journey through grief mirrors our search for peace – by an expert in death and grieving

February 19, 2025

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Lucy Letby case: the problems with expert evidence

February 7, 2025

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Marianne Faithfull: the singer with an inimitable voice was a Romantic poet at heart

February 4, 2025