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Published in: Can Europe Make It?Britain’s COVID-19 housing crisisHousing has to be enshrined as a human right, rather than treated as a commodity or an investment.
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?From Oedipus to coronavirus: Homo Sapiens and the making of scapegoatsWe are supposed to know that scapegoating is simply an ancient deluded way for societies to take back control...
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