Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Amin Saikal, Emeritus Professor of Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, Australian National University; and Vice Chancellor’s Strategic Fellow, Victoria University When it comes to dealing with two of the biggest current crises in the Muslim world – the devastation of Gaza and the Taliban’s…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By William E. Donald, Associate Professor of Sustainable Careers and Human Resource Management, University of Southampton Brett D Cove/Primark, CC BY-ND July is Disability Pride Month, a time to celebrate disabled people while continuing the push for equality, accessibility and visibility. Despite making up 16% of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alan Dykes, Associate Professor in Engineering Geology, Kingston University The earthquake near the east coast of the Kamchatka peninsula in Russia on July 30 2025 generated tsunami waves that have reached Hawaii and coastal areas of the US mainland. The earthquake’s magnitude of 8.8 is significant,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Adele Julier, Senior Lecturer in Ecology, University of Portsmouth Maria Evseyeva/Shutterstock Hosepipe bans in summer 2025 will mean many gardeners having to choose which of their plants to keep going with the watering can, and which to abandon. Are these temporary restrictions actually a sign we…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Thomas Longden, Senior Researcher, Urban Transformations Research Centre, Western Sydney University DimaBerlin/Shutterstock The UK government recently expanded the warm home discount by removing restrictions that had previously excluded many people who can’t always afford to heat their homes. Now, the payment of £150 will be received…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Brian Brivati, Visiting Professor of Contemporary History and Human Rights, Kingston University Keir Starmer has announced that the UK will recognise Palestinian statehood by September 2025 unless Israel meets certain conditions, marking a significant shift in UK policy. For decades, successive UK governments withheld recognition, insisting…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sudhansu Bala Das, Postdoctoral researcher in Linguistics, University of Galway India is a home to numerous ancient and linguistically rich languages across its many regions. In a single home, a young person may speak, for example, Odia (the language spoken in the eastern state of Odisha)…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Susan Walker, Associate Professor in Contraception, Reproductive and Sexual Health, Anglia Ruskin University The male contraceptive pill just completed phase 1 trials. Pixel-Shot/ Shutterstock A potential new male contraceptive drug has just undergone its first tests in human volunteers. The results give the first indication that…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sam Halvorsen, Reader in Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London When UK Conservative party head Kemi Badenoch recently declared that she aspires to be Britain’s Milei, she aligned herself with one of the world’s most radical and controversial leaders. Javier Milei, Argentina’s self-styled “anarcho-capitalist” president,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ram Prasad, Fellow of the British Academy and Distinguished Professor in the Department Politics, Philosophy and Religion, University of Leicester The British Museum’s Ancient India, Living Traditions exhibition brings together exhibits on the sacred art of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. It also encompasses the spread of…