Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daanish Mustafa, Professor in Critical Geography, King’s College London Two children walk along a burst water pipeline in Karachi, southern Pakistan. Asianet-Pakistan / Shutterstock For ten days in April 2025, Pakistan almost came to a standstill. No freight was moving from its only port city, Karachi,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Montgomery, Lecturer in Work and Organisations, University of Stirling Nigel Farage’s proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain is a shifting of the goalposts for those who have already come to the UK legally and settled. Framing issues of migration as a crisis has been…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Katie MacLean, PhD Student, University of Stirling Popstar Charli XCX is turning her hand to acting in the new film Erupcja. In it, she recites Lord Byron’s poem Darkness. Charli and Byron may be 200 years apart, but the legacies of Romantic poetry are alive in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University The Times has described the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist as “revenge of the middle-aged author”“. If the phrase sounds derogatory, it isn’t meant that way: the review also describes the shortlist as “novels for…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By George Newth, Lecturer in Politics and member of Reactionary Politics Research Network, University of Bath Faced with an insurgent UK far right backed by a billionaire oligarch, Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s pledge to lead the progressive fightback is long overdue. If Starmer’s speech, however, is to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mikael Klintman, Professor of Sociology, Lund University voronaman/Shutterstock It’s 2:47 am and your phone buzzes on the nightstand. The notification suddenly glows in the darkness: “You’re on a 7-day streak!”; “Don’t break your streak!”. You feel the need to open the app right away for an…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Oleksandra Bolotina/Shutterstock.com Removing lymph nodes during cancer surgery has saved countless lives in many tumour types. Yet recent research is challenging parts of this long-standing practice. Imagine your body’s immune defences as a city, and lymph nodes…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Thomas Gift, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL US president Donald Trump’s “meme coin” $TRUMP fell about 8% in five minutes in late September 2025, wiping millions off its value. Users can buy and sell this cryptocurrency, inspired by an internet…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gregory Frame, Teaching Associate in Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham Champions of free speech will have breathed a sigh of relief when The Walt Disney Company returned Jimmy Kimmel Live! to air on its US broadcast network, ABC, on September 23. Disney claims to…