Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matt Walsh, Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University The BBC’s livestreaming of the Glastonbury performance by punk-rap duo Bob Vylan broke editorial guidelines on preventing harm and offence to viewers, according to the corporation’s complaints unit. More than 5,000 people complained…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Yuval Katz, Lecturer in Communication and Media, Loughborough University Bartolomiej Pietrzyk/Shutterstock When US president Donald Trump recently announced his 20-point peace plan for Israel and Hamas, he claimed the moment was: “Potentially, one of the great days ever in civilisation … and I’m not just talking…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Gatto, Assistant Professor in Critical Organisation Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle Warning: this article contains spoilers. In One Battle After Another, three characters (Bob Ferguson, Colonel Steven Lockjaw and Sergio St Carlos) represent three different models of fatherhood. Fatherhood is a timely theme. The place of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pooja Saini, Professor in Suicide and Self Harm Prevention, Liverpool John Moores University Gladskikh Tatiana/Shutterstock.com Hormonal changes during menopause can drive suicidal thoughts – a crisis that healthcare services have failed to recognise or adequately address. The devastating link is laid bare in research my colleagues…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ayman El Hajjar, Senior Lecturer & Head of the Cyber Security Research Group, University of Westminster Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock When cybercriminals targeted the UK nursery chain Kido, it represented a disturbing new low for the hackers. They threatened to expose personal data about young children and their…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Melina Malli, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford I Swear is a biographical drama based on Scottish campaigner John Davidson’s experience of Tourette’s syndrome. Spanning his teenage years to the present, it follows the first tics and their social fallout. It…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Regulatory T cells monitor other immune cells and ensure that our immune system tolerates our own tissues. © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén, CC BY-NC The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or…