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When phone and cam sex worker, Tanya*, told researcher Daisy Matthews about her religious life, she wanted to make it clear that she did not think her job conflicted with her Methodist Christianity at all. In fact, she enjoyed speaking to some of her clients about God and religion.
In our latest long read, we hear from sex workers who are Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Norse Pagan and spiritual. While Tanya chatted to clients about God, others used religion to respond to their clients’ kinks, and some turned to it when they felt threatened.
Elsewhere, we investigate how improving the pay of those who work in childcare in the UK could increase its availability and affordability for parents.
And we keep learning about the wide-ranging effects of COVID lockdowns, this time how they triggered changes in the diets of peregrine falcons.
*Not her real name
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Paul Keaveny
Investigations Editor, Insights
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Daisy Matthews, Nottingham Trent University; Jane Pilcher, Nottingham Trent University
Interviews with religious and spiritual sex workers examine how these seemingly opposite life choices can interconnect and coexist.
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Mathew Johnson, University of Manchester; Eva Herman, University of Manchester
Investment in UK childcare should go towards better pay and conditions for workers. This could also help increase availability and affordability for parents.
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Pigeons are a key source of food for the peregrine falcon.
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Brandon Mak, King's College London; Ed Drewitt, University of Bristol
Lockdown wasn’t good news for London’s peregrine falcons.
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Politics + Society
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Bobby Duffy, King's College London
This major survey on social trends shows how far the UK has come in terms of attitudes towards homosexuality, casual sex and divorce. Views on the death penalty remain conservative, however.
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Afshin Shahi, Keele University
Girls’ schools have been at the centre of protests which are shaking the Islamic Republic to its core.
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Arts + Culture
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Amy McCarthy, York St John University
The oral history showcases how the indie music scene became a way for many New Yorkers to channel their grief after 9/11.
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Leanne Weston, University of Warwick
The synth and strings signature of Oliver Coates’ score are combined with the isolated vocals of David Bowie and Freddie Mercury to haunting effect.
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Business + Economy
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Supriya Kapoor, Trinity College Dublin
Central banks have been signalling that rate rises are going to get more aggressive again, but can the economy actually take it?
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Cities
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Ana Souto, Nottingham Trent University
Chipperfield is not interested in creating something iconic or instantly recognisable as his. Instead, he sees architecture as a service, a vehicle for civic and public good.
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Chris Bevan, Durham University
Guardianship is generally presented as a ‘win-win’ business model. But many guardians do it out of financial stress, not choice.
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Health
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Michael Head, University of Southampton
The WHO first described COVID as a pandemic on March 11, 2020. Where are we at, three years later?
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Adam Taylor, Lancaster University
Fortunately, most of these changes are only temporary.
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Science + Technology
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Dr Martin D. Suttle, The Open University
In 2021, searchers recovered a meteorite that fell over the UK just hours earlier. Scientists have now reconstructed its story.
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