Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dominic Bryan, Chair professor, Queen’s University Belfast Flags – particularly the union flag and the St George’s Cross – continue to appear in towns and cities in England, at times in response to the housing of migrants and asylum seekers in the local area. Groups such…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicole Bulawa, Lecturer in Marketing, Lancaster University Amani A/Shutterstock Charging your electric car for the first time can seem confusing. The whole process just isn’t very intuitive. There are different plug types and charging speeds, plus various ways of charging at home, at motorway stations or…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Darling, Professor in Human Geography, Durham University Over recent weeks, the interim injunction to halt the housing of asylum seekers at the Bell hotel in Epping has thrown government plans into crisis. The Home Office has now successfully appealed this judgment but does still need…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Silver, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Sheffield The majority of Gaza’s urban sites will have to be rebuilt from the ground up. Anas-Mohammed/Shutterstock The US and Israel have sparked international condemnation over their leaked vision for the reconstruction of a shattered Gaza. The urban…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rafeef Ziadah, Senior Lecturer in Politics and Public Policy (Emerging Economies), King’s College London The Gaza Reconstitution, Economic Acceleration and Transformation Trust (Great Trust) vision. Supplied Entire neighbourhoods in Gaza lie in ruins. Hundreds of thousands are crammed into tents, struggling for food, water and power.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura Elin Pigott, Senior Lecturer in Neurosciences and Neurorehabilitation, Course Leader in the College of Health and Life Sciences, London South Bank University Is oxytocin surging through their brains? Zhenny-zhenny/Shutterstock Cats may have a reputation for independence, but emerging research suggests we share a unique connection…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Matthew Scott Luskin, Researcher and Lecturer in Conservation Science, The University of Queensland The forest elephants of the Congo Basin are critically endangered and face extinction. They live in Africa’s largest forest, extending over the continent’s west and central regions. Large populations are found in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Carolina Machado Oliveira, Filmmaker, Senior Lecturer in Factual, Bournemouth University Deep in the Amazon, sound designer Eric Terena has been capturing the sounds of the rainforest while sitting silently beneath the dense, towering treetops with his recording equipment. He has noticed some huge changes. “What the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rachael Jolley, International Affairs Editor, The Conversation Republican political activist Charlie Kirk was killed as he spoke at a Utah Valley University event on September 10. Just three months earlier, Minnesotan House Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed by a masked gunman.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By John Joseph Chin, Assistant Teaching Professor of Strategy and Technology, Carnegie Mellon University Soon to be exchanging blinds with bars? Sergio Lima/AFP via Getty Images Jair Bolsonaro’s conviction on Sept. 11, 2025, puts the former Brazilian president in a rogues’ gallery of failed coup plotters…