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As The Conversation has reported, COVID-19 has had a deeply unequal impact on UK society, affecting some communities substantially more than others. The pandemic has also shone a powerful light on the need for policymakers to have access to a wide variety of different types (and sources) of knowledge, to aid their decision-making in both the short and longer terms. This is just as true now as the UK gradually opens up (paying careful attention to the spread of new variants). But with COVID-19 having affected so many different communities in so many different ways, how do national, regional an...

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From Minsk to Hong Kong, people power is just not working anymore Last month’s detention of an advocate in Belarus is only the latest of many signals that people must relearn how to defend their values By Will Hutton / The Observer The West’s ineffectiveness in the face of the arrant use of torture, unlawful arrest, savage imprisonment without trial and flagrant abuse of international law, even close to home in Europe, is among the bleakest symptoms of our times. The people power we saw embodied in the strikes in the Gdask shipyards in Poland, the fall of the Berlin Wall and even the ...

Letters: it’s unfair to single out Manchester City fans Yes, the club is owned by the morally dubious regime of Abu Dhabi, but look at all the other organisations that depend on Gulf cash A City fan celebrates his team winning the Premier League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian A City fan celebrates his team winning the Premier League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian Sun 23 May 2021 01.00 EDT As a lifelong Manchester City supporter and season ticket holder (even in the days when we were penniless in the third tier), I read with interest Nick Cohen’s article on the use of o...

From Barclays to Unilever: 14 major firms commit to purpose-led businesses More than a dozen large firms have pledged to put social sustainability higher on the boardroom agenda, by joining a scheme aimed to help businesses become more purpose-driven. Pictured: The London offices of EY, one of the 14 businesses to make the commitment PwC, EY and Unilever are among the latest businesses to join The Purposeful Company – a not-for-profit that describes its mission as helping firms to place people and planet on an equal footing with profit, embedding this approach across all parts of their valu...