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Catherine Roach uncovers what we learn from the romance story about today’s changing norms for gender and sexuality and about the nature of happiness and love.
Scientists are now finding increasing evidence of the terrible extent of human-induced damage of the sea. What attempts are being made to reduce this footprint of human activity, and can they succeed in restoring the largest living space on earth?
A discussion of the nature of consciousness founded in startling 1853 experiments on living, decapitated frogs. The debate brought in the greatest minds of the age and is still with us today.
When should intervention take place to safeguard a child? Areas where harm may arise include children at risk of being radicalised through parents or others promoting terrorism. Emerging law and practice in this area will be examined.
The European Court of Human Rights has been at the crossroads of two legal civilizations: the Continental Civil Law on the one hand and the British Common Law on the other. Here we have two different approaches to reality.
World War Two set British filmmakers a challenge: to be relevant and entertaining and to inspire without patronising. Powell and Pressburger brought wit and imagination to their task, questioning what Britain stood for, warts and all.
At best, a family is united by children, love, partnership; at worst it has the death of love, divorce, and parents feuding over money and children. But what of the situation when the dispute is not between The State and The Family?