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We Are Lady Parts is a comedy following the members of a all girl Muslim punk band in London. Channel 4 Beth Johnson, University of Leeds What makes a TV show British? Former media minister John Whittingdale had some ideas when he recently announced government plans to require UK public service broadcasters to produce “distinctly British” programmes. Speaking at the …

John Doyle, University of Sussex and Daniel Burdsey, University of Brighton Many a football supporter relates to Bob Marley and The Wailers’ Three Little Birds and its reassuring line “every little thing gonna be alright”. For most fans the early stages of a new season harbour a mixture of hope and trepidation. Three Little Birds has echoed around Ajax Amsterdam’s …

Actor Michael Sheen. Jeff Morgan 09/Alamy Dave O’Brien, University of Edinburgh and Mark Taylor, University of Sheffield The actor Michael Sheen recently complained about the lack of opportunities in film and journalism for working-class people. Writing in the New Statesman, Sheen said that the path he had taken into the film industry – as a working-class young man from South …

Black and Hispanic business school professors are few in number. nortonrsx/iStock via Getty Images Plus Sonya A. Grier, American University Kogod School of Business Despite the increasing diversity among America’s college students, business school professors remain overwhelmingly white. In U.S. business schools, Black and Hispanic individuals make up 23.2% of students, yet only 6.7% of the faculty. As a researcher …

Finding common ground. Melitas/Shutterstock Julian Hargreaves, University of Cambridge What do you think of your neighbours? And what do they think of you? Concerns around increasing division and polarisation in the UK have persisted stubbornly since the EU referendum in 2016. We hear a lot from academics, politicians and journalists about a supposedly fractured nation. But how divided is Britain? …