Category: MIL OSI
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RuPaul’s Drag Race: how mainstream drag is losing its political, activist and community focus
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chris Greenough, Professor of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University As UK fans prepare to sit down for the seventh series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, it is worth asking what the competition format really offers drag. Since first airing in the US in 2009, Drag Race…
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No more resets, reboots and reshuffles: brand experts on why Labour now needs a total overhaul
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Pich, Associate Professor in Marketing, University of Nottingham Labour is holding its 2025 conference against a backdrop of Andy Burnham, mayor of Manchester, calling for “wholesale change”. Burnham is making a clear attempt to use the government’s record of scandal, u-turn and general identity crisis…
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Port Talbot, one year on: steelworks closure shows why public is losing trust in net zero
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Beuret, Lecturer in Management and Ecological Sustainability, University of Essex The rolling mills are still working, but the furnaces are long cold. Of the 4,000 people previously employed at the steel mill in Port Talbot, Wales, only half still work there. Despite union protests and…
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How can Europe fight back against incursions by drone aircraft?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matthew Powell, Teaching Fellow in Strategic and Air Power Studies, University of Portsmouth An increasing number of drones have been spotted around Denmark’s airports in recent weeks. The most recent incidents around Aalborg and Billund airport caused considerable disruption followed as scheduled flights were prevented from…
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The ancestors of ostriches and emus were long-distance fliers – here’s how we worked this out
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Klara Widrig, Postdoctoral research fellow, Smithsonian Institution Oleksii Synelnykov/Shutterstock Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol of freedom, and a source of inspiration for humans to build our own flying machines. This makes those birds…
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The eye in the sky: what Denmark’s drone sightings tell us about power and fear down the years
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kathrin Maurer, Professor , Department of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, University of Southern Denmark All-seeing ‘eye in the sky’: drones make us uneasy because we don’t know who is controlling them. Piotr Piatrouski/Shutterstock Red and blue lights blink in the Danish sky. Is it a plane,…
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Why This Is Spinal Tap remains the funniest rock satire ever made
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Adam Daniel, Associate Lecturer in Communication, Western Sydney University Embassy Pictures Corporation/Getty Images With Spinal Tap II: The End Continues hitting cinemas, now is the perfect moment to revisit its precursor, one of most influential and hilarious comedy films ever made, 1984’s This Is Spinal…
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Serbia’s Aleksandar Vučić clings to power – but protests highlight the danger of stubborn leadership
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Keith Brown, Professor of Politics and Global Studies, Arizona State University In Serbia, there is a word for a form of stubbornness that sees someone act out of spite or defiance rather than yield to the will of others: “inat.” It’s something Serbian President Aleksandar…
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Pet guardians are increasingly worried about the mental health of their dogs and cats
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Renata Roma, Researcher Associate – Pawsitive Connections Lab, University of Saskatchewan The human-animal bond is evolving, and there is a need to further explore people’s concerns towards their pets (Unsplash/Manuel Meza) When it comes to caring for pets, some people worry most about physical health, while…
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Helen Zille: will competence, courage and a dose of arrogance be enough to get her elected as Johannesburg’s mayor?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Africa (2) – By Roger Southall, Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand Love her or loathe her, it is hard to deny that Helen Zille is one of the most remarkable politicians South Africa’s democracy has yet seen. Remarkable because she has served in so many high-profile public…