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Paul Davies is a cosmologist and best-selling author who chairs the Post-Detection Taskgroup for SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. In 2006 he founded Beyond: Center for Fundamental ...

All over Britain, shopping centres are closing down. Can these retail paradises be replaced by new public spaces?

Kerem Oktem is a Research Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford. His book Angry Nation: Turkey since 1989 will be published by Zed Books in 2009.