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The Conversation’s hot seats series looked at the key marginals. Our panel of experts take a look at the results.
Commemoration and memory is being re-politicised, and this could have worrying consequences.
The Tories are on course to lose their only Scottish seat, and they need to pick another up. They’ve found a target – and ended up in a three-way battle.
DevoManc will see £6 billion devolved to Greater Manchester for the NHS, and
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After losing the seat in 2010, Labour parachuted in a former advisor from Islington to reclaim Redcar and Cleveland – but the Greens may have played a surprise trump card.
Known for his Stalinist grip of NHS finances, Nicholson is now a convert to more enlightened thinking.
Biological and psychological factors are implicated in anorexia. If it was just about media, why are many more people obese?
Dark matter’s mysteries are being steadily unravelled by new studies of remote galaxies.
Despite an African Union report warning the election would not be fair, the vote looks set to extend Omar al-Bashir’s 26-year rule.
Labour’s 2015 manifesto aims to improve life for children and it suggests that one effective means of achieving that aim is to invest in early years’ provision. The claim is that a child’s language development…
Can Labour get by on zombie policies, when it comes to education.
Our experts crunch the evidence on Labour’s big ticket policies.
Police and spies’ calls for more powers should fall on deaf ears until they have learned the letter of the law.
Nick Clegg has hailed the success of the coalition’s policies in closing the gap between richer and poorer students. Is he right?
Naive theories of all kinds persist in the face of contradictory arguments and even in those who know them to be false.
The UK’s “Work Capability Assessment” is a disaster, but other countries show us how it can be fixed.
Europe was supposed to be big business for fracking companies, but so far not so good. So what’s going wrong?
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Associate Professor of Medieval History, Durham University
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Professor in Practice, Department of Engineering, Durham University
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Professor in Political Science and International Relations, Durham University
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Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University, Durham University
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PhD Candidate in International Relations, Durham University
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Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Geography, Durham University
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Professor of Landscape Archaeology, Department of Archaeology, University of Al-Qadisiyah; Durham University
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Professor of Geoenergy, Carbon Capture and Storage, Durham University
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Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Durham University
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Assistant Professor, Net Zero Transition, Durham University
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Associate Professor in Politics and Islam, Durham University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Durham University
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Professor of Sedimentology & Geoenergy, Durham University
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Associate Professor, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University