Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jo Wilding, Lecturer in law, University of Sussex The Windrush scandal has been one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in Britain, affecting tens of thousands of people. The government set up a scheme in 2019 to award compensation to those who had been wronged by…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By John Dearing, Emeritus Professor of Physical Geography, University of Southampton Andrey VP / shutterstock Some of Earth’s largest climate systems may collapse not with a bang, but with a whimper. Surprisingly, experiments with magnets are helping us understand how. We now widely accept that greenhouse gases…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Primrose Freestone, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester Marko Aliaksandr/Shutterstock Your feet are microbial hotspots. The area between your toes is packed with sweat glands, and when we wrap our feet in socks and shoes, we trap that moisture in a warm, humid cocoon…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David Suber, Departmental Lecturer in Criminology, University of Oxford In the latest attempt to crack down on irregular migration, the UK government has announced a raft of international sanctions against people smugglers. The sanctions will use asset freezes, travel bans and other financial restrictions to go…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Rogers, Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford Keir Starmer says unless there’s a ceasefire and a peace process leading to a two-state solution, Britain will recognise the state of Palestine at the UN in September. The UK prime minister is following a similar, alebit…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Beth Johnson, Professor of Television & Media Studies, University of Leeds Keeley Hawes’s new Channel 4 and Prime Video drama, The Assassin, introduces a premise that feels both bold and overdue. It follows Julie (Hawes), a menopausal woman, overlooked and emotionally stalled, who worked as a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stefan Stern, Visiting Professor of Management Practice, Bayes Business School, City St George’s, University of London Are two heads better than one? This is a question that members of the Green party will be asking themselves over the summer as they take part in the election…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Stephen R. Buzdugan, Senior Lecturer in International Business, Manchester Metropolitan University Jeppe Gustafsson/Shutterstock For the past two years, Tesla has been embroiled in a bitter dispute with the Swedish labour union IF Metall. It is of a scale that the union hasn’t witnessed since the 1930s.…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jen Wilson, Senior Exercise and Health Practitioner, Nottingham Trent University The challenge may sound like a quick and easy way to get fit, but it may actually be the least effective way of adding kettlebells to your workouts. Tongpool Piasupun/ Shutterstock The “100 kettlebell swings a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Milad Haghani, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow in Urban Risk and Resilience, The University of Melbourne Last night, one of the ten largest earthquakes ever recorded struck Kamchatka, the sparsely populated Russian peninsula facing the Pacific. The magnitude 8.8 quake had its epicentre in the…