Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nikhil Datta, Assistant Professor, Economics, University of Warwick David Fowler/Shutterstock Housing and high rental costs have been a major issue for the UK in the past decade. While other countries have moved towards protections for renters, rent control has not been a widespread feature of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Fiona Regan, Full Professor of Chemistry and Director, DCU Water Institute, Dublin City University The project team heading for the oyster beds. Fiona Regan For over 200 years, native oysters (Ostrea edulis) have been absent in Dublin Bay. Once abundant along the Irish coast, they thrived…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kevin Munro, Ewing Professor of Audiology, University of Manchester Microgen/Shutterstock If the NHS recommended it, would people test their own hearing at home and use self-fitting hearing aids? A survey of over 2,000 adults found that nine in every ten said yes, they’d be willing to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Harmehak Singh, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Liverpool Hope University Cast Of Thousands/Shutterstock Ever eaten while doom-scrolling and realised you barely tasted anything? Or found your favourite pasta strangely bland after a stressful meeting, yet somehow delicious on a relaxed Saturday evening? We often think taste comes…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Charlotte Goodburn, Reader in Chinese Politics and Development, King’s College London Keir Starmer met with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in October. Simon Dawson/Number 10/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND The UK government is promoting its plan for a new digital identity scheme as a way to streamline services,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ellen Ruth Kujawa, Coastal Change Research Fellow, University of Hull; University of Cambridge Hurricane Melissa devastated Jamaica in late October, killed dozens in Haiti and forced nearly three-quarters of a million Cubans to evacuate. The death toll across the region is still unknown – but Melissa…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nick Bernards, Associate Professor of Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick A US$125 billion rainforest fund is being hailed as a flagship announcement from the 2025 UN climate summit in Belém, Brazil. The goal is noble: this is essentially a trust fund that will pay countries…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sheena Cruickshank, Professor in Immunology, University of Manchester Changing allergy guidelines may be behind the decline. Roman Rybaleov/ Shutterstock Peanut allergy is one of the most common food allergies, affecting between 1% and 2% of people living in the west. And, for many years, their prevalence…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nando Sigona, Professor of International Migration and Forced Displacement and Director of the Institute for Research into International Migration and Superdiversity, University of Birmingham Ajdin Kamber/Shutterstock The UK government’s latest proposals on asylum rest on an incorrect premise. In announcing them, home secretary Shabana Mahmood argued…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Ryder, Professor of Law, Cardiff University In the UK alone, fraud is thought to cost the economy £219 billion per year. tete_escape/Shutterstock Fraud is now the most common offence in the UK accounting for more than 40% of reported crime. In the year to July…