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Why was it ‘necessary’ for King Charles to take action on Andrew – and why now?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Francesca Jackson, PhD candidate, Lancaster Law School, Lancaster University The man formerly known as Prince Andrew will now simply be known as Andrew Mountbatten Windsor after he was stripped of all his official titles. In a statement, Buckingham Palace said the king has “initiated a formal…
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Trump-Xi meeting: the key takeaways
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation This newsletter was first published in The Conversation UK’s World Affairs Briefing email. Sign up to receive weekly analysis of the latest developments in international relations, direct to your inbox. It was “12 out of ten”,…
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‘You can’t eat electricity’: how rural solar farms became Britain’s latest culture war
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Heffron, PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides in a new rural culture…
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Girlbands Forever: BBC documentary charts the highs and lows of British girl groups – with one glaring ommission
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joel Gray, Associate Dean, Sheffield Hallam University There can be no doubt that any conversation about British girlbands of the last 30 years would be dominated by Spice Girls. In whichever corner of the globe you are, they were the defacto pop force of the late…
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Why is it so difficult for the UK to deport foreign criminals?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sarah Singer, Professor of Refugee Law, School of Advanced Study, University of London macondofotografcisi/Shutterstock A convicted sex offender has been deported from Britain to Ethiopia after being accidentally released from prison. Following a national manhunt, home secretary Shabana Mahmood confirmed that Hadush Kebatu – an asylum…
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New Nasa lunar contest could pit Elon Musk against Jeff Bezos, as US fears China will win race to Moon
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies…
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Mission to Mars: how space exploration pushes the human body to its limits
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales European Space Agency, CC BY-NC-ND On January 14 2004, the United States announced a new “Vision for Space Exploration”, promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, Nasa’s Artemis…
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Benedict Cumberbatch, John Grisham and Ursula K. Le Guin’s fantasy maps: what to watch, read and see this week
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jane Wright, Commissioning Editor, Arts & Culture, The Conversation The more I see Benedict Cumberbatch on screen the more I marvel at his talent as an actor. Recently I have watched him in Eric on Netflix, as an unravelling Sesame Street-style puppeteer looking for his abducted…
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The Children’s Booker prize will include works of translation – here are five expert recommendations to get your kids excited
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sophie Heywood, Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Cultures, University of Reading The Children’s Booker hopes to get more kids reading. PeopleImages/Shutterstock The buzz around the newly announced Children’s Booker has focused on its potential to “tell kids they matter”, as they get their…
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How your brain keeps falling for the latest beauty fads – and what you can do about it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Elin Pigott, Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Our brain’s perception of beauty can be re-trained. bigbambe/ Shutterstock Beauty standards have always evolved, but in today’s social media age, they shift…
