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It’s now well known that people from ethnic minorities in the UK are more likely to catch COVID-19, but the country’s latest unemployment figures confirm that minority groups are also paying the heaviest economic price for the pandemic. Ethnic minorities are more likely than white people to have lost their jobs – black people above all. Afro-Caribbean unemployment is now over three times white unemployment, with young people the main point of difference.
Every recent UK recession has played out in this way, explain economists Stephen Nolan and Ken Clark, and it’s because race discrimination rises when there is less to go around. Yet government schemes like Kickstarter are doing nothing to help. Nolan and Clark argue that this is breaking the law, and sketch out a different way forward.
Meanwhile, ecotourism specialist Simon Evans reports on Asia’s tiger trade. He has spent a decade visiting tiger ‘farms’ in which animals are bred in depressing conditions for everything from their bones to their skins. And we look back at Daft Punk’s glorious robot helmets, which turned a fondness for anonymity into a stroke of accidental genius.
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Steven Vass
Business + Economy Editor
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‘You wanted to speak to me about the job …’
Fabio Camandona
Steve Nolan, University of Manchester; Ken Clark, University of Manchester
The government has a legal duty not to exacerbate inequalities in its policies, but this is getting forgotten during the pandemic.
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Jack Maguire / Alamy
Simon Evans, Anglia Ruskin University
A production line takes tigers from zoos to be harvested for their meat, skin and bones.
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Andrea Raffin/Shutterstock
Daniel Cookney, University of Salford
Daft Punk’s anonymity was really a stroke of genius.
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Politics + Society
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Gareth Norris, Aberystwyth University; Alexandra Brookes, Aberystwyth University
Here's how you can avoid a COVID-19 vaccine scam.
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Lo Marshall, UCL
The fast-paced move to digital spaces after the pandemic has expanded possibilities for finding community and support in adverse circumstances.
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Mie Astrup Jensen, UCL
Tens of thousands of gay men and lesbians were persecuted by the Nazis but stigma and a lack of research funding has kept their history hidden.
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Health + Medicine
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Agnes Arnold-Forster, University of Bristol
We should assess the pandemic’s effect in the round, beyond just COVID deaths.
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Kevin Doxzen, Arizona State University
As the world has focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, other microbial foes are waging war on humans. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose a growing threat. But viruses may defeat them.
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Ian Harris, UNSW
Once his leg fracture heals, his leg can potentially be just as straight and strong as it was before. But his foot and ankle are more of a worry.
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Environment + Energy
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David O'Brien, University of Salford; Robert Jehle, University of Salford
Britain's native amphibians are in steep decline thanks to wetlands disappearing and ponds drying up.
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Seth Blumsack, Penn State
Some Texans are receiving eye-popping electric bills after power providers passed on volatile costs to some of their customers – legally.
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Science + Technology
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Wijnand Van Tilburg, University of Essex
Boredom can make you angry, impulsive or find meaning in life.
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Cities
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Simon Bowen, Newcastle University; Alexander Wilson, Newcastle University
Taking people's views into account results in designs that better fit their needs.
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Business + Economy
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Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London; Dhanay M. Cadillo Chandler, University of Turku
A waiver may not allow all developing countries to secure medicines and other anti-COVID technologies in a timely way.
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