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Editor's note
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Some of the UK's most prestigious educational institutions are looking into how they might have benefited from the slave trade, and that’s sparked a debate. Certain critics, such as the former equality commissioner, Trevor Phillips, have made accusations of "virtue signalling" while others welcome an attempt to look into the way privilege and inequality has developed and become ingrained over the centuries. With so much of the UK's wealth debate tied up in its colonial past, one way forward might be to address the myriad inequalities that persist to this day.
What a week for Premier League football clubs. At the elite end of the sport, four English clubs have reached the finals of the two big European football competitions. But away from the glamour of the top tier, Bolton Wanderers, one of the oldest teams in English football is in financial difficulties. So much so that a league fixture was postponed after players threatened to strike over unpaid wages. The last strike in English football was in 1961 and resulted in the abolition of the then maximum wage of £20. What will be the outcome this time?
South Africa has voted and the ANC has won its sixth straight victory since democracy was established in 1994. But the party’s share of the vote has fallen for the first time to below 60% as an increasingly competitive multi-party democracy emerges. You can follow all the developments here, courtesy of our colleagues at The Conversation Africa and some of South Africa’s most acute political thinkers.
This week we’ve also been following the build up to the forthcoming federal election in Australia, how a ground-breaking new zero carbon bill in New Zealand will include methane targets for the first time and, from the US, how model Halima Aden will be the first woman to wear a hijab and burkini in the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue – and what that means for Muslims and fashion.
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Jonathan Este
Associate Editor, Arts + Culture Editor
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Steven Greer, University of Bristol
History is complex and multi-dimensional. Any response to what happened in the past should reflect this.
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Bolton. Going down?
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Mark Orton, De Montfort University
Not all footballers are millionaires. Some have to fight for their earning rights.
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Cyril Ramaphosa has led South Africa’s African National Congress to its sixth electoral victory. But he’s got his work cut out.
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Richard Calland, University of Cape Town
Some have argued that were the ANC to win 60% or more in this election, it would have given the party a blank cheque for further larceny
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Jeremy Howick, University of Oxford
Evidence for the benefits of empathy in healthcare is mounting.
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Charisma isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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Stefan Stern, City, University of London; Jon Stokes, University of Oxford
The quickest and simplest solution seems to be installing a new leader – someone with nerve, daring and, of course, charisma.
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Robert McLachlan, Massey University
New Zealand's government has released a bill that sets targets to bring long-lived greenhouse gases to net zero by 2050 and reduce emissions of the shorter-lived methane by 10% within a decade.
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Kayla Renée Wheeler, Grand Valley State University
Hijab-wearing model Halima Aden will be featured in Sports Illustrated's annual swimsuit edition. Here's why her success needs to be viewed in context of a long history of black Muslim women's fashions.
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Ella Tennant, Keele University
History tells us there were eight women who ruled as empresses of Japan, but since reforms of the constitution in 1947, only a man can inherit the throne.
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Christopher Timothy McGuirk, University of Central Lancashire
Play video games and learn a language – a researcher explains why it might be possible.
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Tomasz Liskiewicz, Manchester Metropolitan University
Once called 'the most important subject no one has heard of', tribology is now a key part of the fourth industrial revolution.
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Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road,, Reading, Reading, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom — University of Reading
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Room D/L/104, Derwent College, Campus West, York, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom — University of York
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Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road,, Reading, Reading, RG1 5EX, United Kingdom — University of Reading
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