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When the same symptoms lead to different diagnoses

Understanding ethnic inequalities in mental health

Racial discrimination is deeply pervasive through society with profoundly detrimental consequences, but to what extent does it impact our healthcare systems? 

16th January 2026, The Doc Suit Debrief

The Cost of Inaction

Why Investing In Refugee Mental Health Makes Economic and Moral Sense

This article explain why investing in refugee mental health is a moral issue, the inequities between the Global North and South, and the role of social entrepreneurship in addressing this.

6th December 2025, The Doc Suit Debrief

Unity in Adversity: How Communities are Bringing Resilience to the Humanitarian Crisis in Sudan

Since starting in 2023the war in Sudan has left about half of the country’s population in need of food assistance, and approximately 12 million people displaced. This blog brings attention to the humanitarian side of the war in Sudan, focusing on community efforts on the ground by neighbours, and the medium and long-term humanitarian impact of the war.

15th April 2025, LSE Middle East Centre

Book Review: We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembled

This is an analysis of We Crossed a Bridge and It Trembledwhich brings together the real voices of those who experienced the Syrian revolution first-hand. It discusses why, in giving a voice to the voiceless, this book is central to the study of the Syrian revolution.

23rd April 2021, Human Rights Pulse

The UK Must Confront its Colonial Past to Survive After Brexit
As of yet, colonial history is hardly taught. This is problematic when leaders of a country try to navigate an increasingly globalised world without knowing their country’s place in the world. But now, it is even more important for policymakers to learn, teach, and understand this shared global history.

10th February 2021, Foreign Policy Rising

Our COVID-19 strategy: How Agora embraced digital transformation

Agora was founded on grassroots participation. A comment on how Agora embraced digital transformation during the pandemic.

8th December 2020, Polis180

Interview by Polis180: May a hard Brexit clear the air after all?
Since the United Kingdom in 2016 voted not to remain in the European Union, Britain and the rest of Europe seem to move further apart, especially with a no-deal Brexit. An interview by Polis180 with Agora.

6th November 2020, Polis180

The pandemic reveals the need for change in UK migration policy

COVID-19 has changed, and will continue to change, migration policy. As we move towards the end of the Brexit transition period and away from the height of the pandemic, the Government should adapt policy to provide stronger social rights for those migrants who have contributed so much to COVID-19 efforts, or else they risk losing them.

Originally published: 7th July 2020, Agora Think Tank


Reforming democracy: the revolution of citizens’ assemblies

Citizens’ assemblies seem like the epitome of good democracy, allowing ordinary citizens to have their say on major policy issues. The recent climate change citizens’ assemblies in France and Britain provided valuable insights for the future potential of deliberative democracy.

Originally published: 31st March 2020, Agora Think Tank

How politicians talk about identities really matters

Thirty years after the ‘cricket test’ was first proposed by Norman Tebbit as a way of assessing one’s allegiance to a country, political rhetoric in the UK and the US still questions who truly belongs in the country.

Originally published: 23rd October 2019, Agora Think Tank