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Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London Irfaan Ali, the leader of the People’s Progressive party (PPP), says he has secured a second term as Guyana’s president. The official results from the election on September 1 are yet to be published, but Ali…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Catherine Norton, Associate Professor Sport & Exercise Nutrition, University of Limerick Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has stirred debate by calling the familiar five-a-day message “a lie”. Speaking to the Times, he argued that the real health benefits of fruit and vegetables only start to add up…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachel Rosen, Professor of Sociology, Social Research Institute, UCL Shutterstock/Pressmaster Miriam was 13 when we met her. One day, she asked Eve: “How can we help my mum? She really struggles. I worry that we don’t have enough money for food and stuff.” Miriam went on…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Millie Horton-Insch, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, History of Art Department, Trinity College Dublin Britain appears to be a nation on the verge of Norman-conquest mania. In July, the prime minister and the French president announced that the Bayeux tapestry – the epic 11th-century embroidery that depicts the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Westlake, Lecturer, Environmental Psychology, University of Bath Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to “maximise extraction” of the UK’s oil and gas from the North Sea as a “common sense” energy policy. Politicians are using language like this increasingly often – calling themselves…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alison Smith, Lecturer in European Film Studies, University of Liverpool The Courageous opens with dense greenery, as sunlit and idyllic as it is discouragingly impenetrable. Then, with barely the rising sound of an engine to warn us, we cut back to urban humanity: a hand slams…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Burden, PhD Candidate in Comparative European Populisms, Aston University Having spent the summer holding weekly press conferences, Reform UK is seeking to drive the political agenda into conference season by holding its annual gathering before Labour and the Conservatives have theirs. The party will meet…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alexander Sergeant, Lecturer in Digital Media Production, University of Westminster Long Story Short is the latest animated series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the talented showrunner who is best known for his early Netflix hit BoJack Horseman. As fans of his previous work will know, Bob-Waksberg’s sensibility seems…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University Tada Images A year ago, Google faced the prospect of being dismantled. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and a new court judgment has helped it avoid this fate. Part of the reason is that AI…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lauren Alex O’Hagan, Research Fellow, School of Languages and Applied Linguistics, The Open University Mariana Serdynska/Shutterstock Why would a suicidal teenager choose to live? It’s not the kind of question most of us ever want to ask. Suicide is the third leading cause of death among…