Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin Israel launched an unprecedented airstrike on the Qatari capital of Doha on September 9, the first time it has directly attacked a Gulf state. The “precision strike” as Israel has called it, targeted a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mari Ellis Dunning, Associate Lecturer at the School of Languages and Literature and PhD Candidate, Aberystwyth University On an October’s day in 1594, Gwen ferch Ellis was led to the gallows in the middle of Denbigh town square in north Wales, and hanged. She was the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Everett Marsh, Reader in Cognitive Psychology, University of Lancashire non c/Shutterstock You’re in the supermarket. Imported beef mince, shrink-wrapped vegetables and cleaning spray are already in your basket. Then you toss in some organic apples and feel a flicker of moral relief. Surely that small…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Roger Auster, Lecturer in Environmental Social Science, Centre for Resilience in Environment, Water and Waste, University of Exeter Fifteen pine martens have been reintroduced to the south west of England as part of the Two Moors project. Terry Whittaker 2020Vision, CC BY-NC-ND Fifteen pine martens were…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kerrie Holloway, Research Fellow in the Humanitarian Policy Group, ODI Global After heavy rains, a landslide “completely levelled” a remote village in western Sudan in early September. It was the temporary home of hundreds of internally displaced persons (IDPs) who had fled the conflict between the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tao Zhang, Senior Lecturer, School of Arts & Humanities, Nottingham Trent University As China ramped up its security in Bejing ahead of its largest military parade in history, over in Chongqing, a city of 30 million people, slogans mysteriously appeared projected on the walls of a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kit Yates, Professor of Mathematical Biology and Public Engagement, University of Bath Heathrow’s Terminal 4 was evacuated on September 8 as fire crews were called in to investigate “possible hazardous materials” at the London airport. After a few hours of halted flights and frustrating inconvenience, emergency…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Fufy Demissie, Senior Lecturer in Early Years Education, Sheffield Hallam University PeopleImages/Shutterstock Story time – at home, at nursery and at school – is where young children encounter the magic of books. Reading stories to young children is a pleasurable activity in itself, but it also…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Saroash Shahid, Reader in Dental Materials, Queen Mary University of London Vladimir Sukhachev/Shutterstock.com You brush twice daily, floss religiously and see your dentist every six months. But what if these acts of oral hygiene are quietly contributing to one of the planet’s most pressing environmental crises?…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Button, Professor of Security and Fraud, University of Portsmouth iSOMBOON/Shutterstock Consumers are increasingly being targeted by financial fraudsters who deceive them into sending money, access their bank accounts or take out loans using their identity. Over the summer, new and more sophisticated scams have been…