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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
| Charlie WilliamsSarah MarksDaniel Pick
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Is it really OK to not be OK?
| James DownsMafalda Rakoš
Our mental healthcare system is still the poor relation of services that treat physical illness, and the pandemic has shone a spotlight on this situation. Campaigner James Downs argues for fundamental change.
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The housing that gives hope to refugees
| George KafkaMamadou
A safe place of one’s own can be a source of healing and hope. George Kafka reports on two Athens-based projects helping displaced people by putting housing first.
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What is structural violence?
| Laura BuiJessa Fairbrother
Structural violence is seemingly invisible. But its tentacles have invaded every part of many people’s lives, thoughts, experiences and expectations, shaping them in ways they don’t even realise.