Category: English
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How vaping primes the lungs for COVID damage
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Keith Rochfort, Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Institute, Dublin City University Vitaliy Abbasov/Shutterstock As colder months set in, respiratory infections begin to climb: everything from the common cold and flu to COVID. It’s a time when healthy lungs matter more than ever. Yet the…
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Do British people want to leave the ECHR? What a decade of polls reveals
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jacques Hartmann, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Dundee Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), once a fringe idea, has become a defining issue for political parties. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who previously opposed leaving, has now said…
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Environmental defenders are being killed for protecting our future – the law needs to catch up
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Damien Short, Director of the Human Rights Consortium and Reader in Human Rights, School of Advanced Study, University of London Three environmental defenders – people who take action against the exploitation of natural resources – are murdered or disappeared somewhere in the world every week. The…
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Darts: the surprising amount of athletic skill it takes to hit a bullseye
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol The 2025 darts World Grand Prix is currently well underway. One of the favourites to win the title is Luke “The Nuke” Littler, who in January became the youngest World Champion in history at…
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Research suggests rich people tend to be more selfish – but why is that?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University North Monaco/Shutterstock From Disney’s Scrooge McDuck and Cruella de Vil to DC Comics’ Lex Luthor to and Mr Burns in the Simpsons, there are plenty of examples of wealthy people using their money and power in evil…
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Without proper support, a diagnosis of dyslexia risks being just a label
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Penelope Hannant, Assistant Professor in Educational Inclusion, University of Birmingham PeopleImages/Shutterstock Whether and when to use the label “dyslexia” has been a perennial debate in education. Some experts and academics argue that there is too much focus on the diagnosis of dyslexia, rather than on providing…
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Gaza peace plan risks borrowing more from Tony Blair’s failures in the Middle East than his success in Northern Ireland
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Dana El Kurd, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond As negotiators meet in Egypt to discuss a Trump-backed peace proposal, displaced Gazans make a daily trek to find drinking water. AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana Tony Blair, the man being tapped by U.S. President…
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In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings − and for being skeptical
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA – By Matthew Redmond, Lecturer, Université de Lille Were these protesters in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 16, 2025, inspired by Thomas Paine? Alex Brandon/AP In one of his stand-up sets, comedian David Cross rejects all political commentary that tries to answer the question, “What would America’s Founding Fathers…
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‘Polite racism’ is the subtle form of racial exclusion — here’s how to move beyond it
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Karine Coen-Sanchez, PhD candidate, Sociological and Anthropological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa In Canadian society, the narrative of multiculturalism can lean toward a “colour-blind” ideology — a comforting idea that race doesn’t matter and everyone is treated the same — even though…
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Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Bruce Campbell, Senior Fellow, Centre for Free Expression, Toronto Metropolitan University; York University, Canada Mark Carney has long been recognized as an authority on climate change. In 2015, as the governor of the Bank of England, he gave his famous “tragedy of the horizon” speech that…