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Emma Bond and Andy Phippen, authors of 'Safeguarding Adults Online: Perspectives on Rights to Participation', grapple with the thorny issue of supporting adults with learning difficulties in their digital lives without compromising their privacy and participation rights.…Read more
Cybernetics provides lot of the tools needed to help individual coops bring about effective democratic and non-hierarchical regulation. It shows us how we can collectively manage change in the face of adversity and develop the solutions we need. Thomas Swann looks at the history of the coop movement and ask whether cybernetic cooperatives could be the future of work.…Read more
Criminal barristers across England and Wales have taken industrial action over a criminal legal aid pay dispute. Daniel Newman and Roxana Dehaghani share insights into the demise of criminal legal aid and why barristers are striking.…Read more
Fran Amery discusses the impact of the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on access to abortion and how the work done by grassroots organisations like AidAccess and Women on Web will have a vital role to play moving forward.…Read more
Based on their Journal of Poverty and Social Justice article, Traute Meyer and Paul Bridgen look at the effects of the post-Brexit immigration system on the household incomes of migrant workers.…Read more
Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention has implications for the future of multilateralism, international law and global politics. Özlem Altıok, women’s rights activist and member of EŞİTİZ, a gender equality watch group based in Turkey, writes on the patriarchal backlash against women’s hard-won rights, and how the women's and LGBTI+ movements refused to give up and continue to struggle for the Convention.…Read more
“I May Destroy You' is an example of the crucial role of creativity, art and storytelling for those navigating their own journeys from violence”. Ankita Mishra, Melody House, Zoe Asser and Amy Beddows discuss the TV comedy drama as a catalyst for change.…Read more
Marianne Colbran, author of 'Crime and Investigative Reporting in the UK, investigates how UK non-profit news sources are changing the remit of crime news to combat the harmful stereotyping of marginalised groups in traditional crime journalism…Read more
This World Refugee Day, Evan Easton-Calabria reveals how, in a quest to foster self-reliance among refugee communities, states and agencies are neglecting to notice that refugees are struggling to survive. …Read more
Chris Pierson, author of 'The Next Welfare State?' shows that the welfare state alone cannot realise social change – even if that social change is nothing more adventurous than reducing child poverty.…Read more