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Editor's note
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Grassroots activism has arisen in many big cities to counter a lack of housing and increasingly high rents. In Berlin, a proposal to nationalise housing is considerably more mainstream – 54.9% of its citizens support the idea. Campaigners now hope to push for a referendum that could ultimately see 200,000 former council houses returned from corporate ownership. Joanna Kusiak writes on a bold move to use a clause in the constitution to take
back control from private interests – and why campaigners in other cities such as London will be watching very closely as events unfold.
As so many of us undertake reading challenges, a fundamental question has been raised: why do we read at all? Sally O'Reilly thinks we need to reconnect with the magic of books rather than worrying about how many of them we get through.
Western diets are undergoing a sea change, with the number of vegans, vegetarians and flexitarians on the increase. The meat industry appears to be adapting to rise to the challenge, with a growing number of meat-free alternatives appearing in stores. Malte Rödl explains how big meat producers are well positioned to corner the market.
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Emily Lindsay Brown
Editor for Cities and Young People
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Joanna Kusiak, University of Cambridge
Socialisation of housing would see profits from rent put back into the maintenance and modernisation of the buildings.
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Sally O'Reilly, The Open University
Forget challenges, adults should be taking a leaf out of children's books when it comes to their reading habits.
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Malte Rödl, University of Manchester
One of the largest UK meat processors has launched a new vegan meat product. This was long overdue.
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Business + Economy
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Geraldine Healy, Queen Mary University of London; Mostak Ahamed, University of Sussex
Progress on gender pay issues in finance especially has been too slow, fragmented and uneven.
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Ania Zalewska, University of Bath
Ten years ago, almost a third of self-employed people in the UK contributed to pension schemes. That figure has dropped dramatically.
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Iwa Salami, University of East London
Investors favoured Muhammadu Buhari's opponent, Atiku Abubakar. So what are the Nigerian president's economic priorities?
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Arts + Culture
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Adam Schembri, University of Birmingham; Kearsy Cormier, UCL
Limited contact between the first British Sign Language communities created dialects that are still in use today.
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Garfield Benjamin, Solent University
Half a century of British classic television available online? Sounds good, but will it be enough to take on the Netflix juggernaut?
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Charlotte Hammond, Cardiff University
The annual Carnival rituals subvert traditional French notions of family and sexuality.
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Science + Technology
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Belinda Winder, Nottingham Trent University; Hany Farid, Dartmouth College
The tech giants are consistently failing to protect children.
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Politics + Society
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Kenneth Armstrong, University of Cambridge
It now looks increasingly certain that the deadline for a deal will be extended beyond March 29. But what happens after that?
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Education
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Emma Vardy, Coventry University
Sharing a book together doesn't stop being important once a child learns to read.
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