The Conversation

Ten years of A Little Life – what’s behind the enduring popularity of Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘trauma porn’ novel?

March 27, 2025

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

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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

An anti AfD protest with people carrying banners in Germany

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

March 7, 2025

A photo of a drainage ditch which runs through a field in rural Somerset. The Bristol Channel headland of Brean Down can be seen in the background.

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

A man standing at the edge of a wooden pier

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