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Marlon James becomes the first Jamaican to win the Man Booker Prize, from a shortlist of novels which reshaped the English language.
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The European obsession with labeling people either economic migrants or refugees hampers understanding of the problems they face. Adding the role remittances play to the debate would help.
The two-year BEPS project is just a band-aid for a deeply flawed system.
We know that older people are more likely to vote conservative: but is this because of their age, or their generation?
Governments are just as much to blame when it comes to letting car manufacturers get away with dodging regulation requirements, as the companies themselves.
There’s an understandable impulse to treat all refugees the same regardless of religious identity. But is that actually helpful?
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An opposition politician and academic argues that new revelations from the Syriza leadership imply that the Prime Minister misled the Greek people.
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The church is too diverse to be governed from Canterbury and should agree to disagree on issues such as women priests and bishops and sexuality.
Whenever the crisis in Burundi is discussed, the economy is often overlooked, even though it is central to understanding the backdrop to the most severe crisis since the end of the civil war.
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Associate Professor in Law and Public Policy, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
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Professor of English and World Literatures, University of Oxford
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Head of Policy Engagement, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford and Fellow in Environmental Change, Reuben College, University of Oxford, University of Oxford
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Senior Fellow in Forest Governance and Leader of Ecosystems Governance Group, University of Oxford
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Tasso Leventis Professor of Biodiversity, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral research fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of Russian Literature (Emerita), University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Researcher in English Literature, University of Oxford
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Environmental Social Science Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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DPhil Candidate, Department of Atmospheric Physics, University of Oxford
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Senior Research Associate, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford
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Researcher, Centre on Migration Policy and Society (COMPAS), Deputy Director, Migration Observatory, University of Oxford
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Professor of Climate Economics and Policy, Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford
