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White Privilege: The Myth of a Post-Racial Society

White Privilege for Dummies would perhaps have been a more appropriate title for Kalwant Bhopal’s study on white privilege. More fitting, at least, than The Myth of a Post-Racial Society, which makes it sound as though Bhopal’s work enlists a cutting edge and insightful angle on the issues of white privilege in the UK and […]

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Abortion Wars

Abortion Wars is a book that will make you angry. It is a reminder that, in a world where women are increasingly aware of their own rights and abilities, the autonomies of their bodies continues to be under attack. Indeed in the  past week, a 14-year-old rape victim died whilst giving birth in Paraguay, a […]

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The Moral Marketplace

Asheem Singh’s The Moral Marketplace discusses the growing social enterprise phenomenon. If that sounds like jargon to you, fear not – I had never heard of social enterprise until I picked up Singh’s book. The term social enterprise refers to organisations which aim to positively impact the world by commercial means. That may be socially, […]