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Steroids, syringes and stigma: the quest for the perfect male six-packs
In the search for a quick route to a muscular physique, many young men turn to controversial anabolic steroids to achieve their goals. But in the wake of deaths in the bodybuilding community, do the statistics showing a fourfold increase...
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Lives Instead of Knives': one woman's struggle to end knife crime
Smith's Farm Estate in Northolt, north-west London, has been the scene of multiple stabbings. After one murder came particularly close to home, community volunteer Jen Lock began a one-woman mission to end knife crime in the area. But,...
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I'll ask God to intervene': the Christian volunteers doing police work in Reading
As government cuts affect police numbers, Reading is feeling the pinch. With one officer claiming there are 'very serious jobs, for instance stabbings, that we cannot get to', Thames Valley police have turned to a group of Christian...
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How a conference call sparked America's abortion obsession
White evangelical Christians are on the frontline of the US's anti-abortion movement. But not so long ago this group was not interested in the politics of terminations. Its members are a crucial faction of Donald Trump's base, motivating...
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Fight or flight: the veterans at war with PTSD
One hundred years on from the end of the first world war, a group of veterans in Dorset are torn between their pride in their military careers and their anger over the lack of psychological support provided to them by the Ministry of...
The Guardian
The death doula: helping you prepare for the day you die
What does it mean to have a good death? Leah Green meets with Aly Dickinson, an end-of-life doula. Aly helps clients to plan what they want to happen at the end of their lives, and she accompanies them as they transition from life to...
The Guardian
The Circle: masculinity, racism and brotherhood on a Hackney estate
Two brothers living on a council estate in Hackney, east London, express their experiences of masculinity, racism and brotherhood through dance and direct testimony. Revealing interviews are set against dynamic movement sequences,...
The Guardian
Revenge Porn'Revenge pornography': Chrissy Chambers' search for justice
In April, it became a crime in England and Wales to post ‘revenge pornography’. Chrissy Chambers and her girlfriend Bria are YouTube’s most popular lesbian content creators. The two channels they run have almost half a million...
The Guardian
I was just a slave': the foreign domestic staff living a life of five-star serfdom in London
They live in some of London’s most exclusive locations, cooking, cleaning and caring for the children of a rich foreign elite. But for many overseas domestic workers, the veneer of reflected glamour conceals a much darker world, one in...