Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sean Brophy, Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University Guguart/Shutterstock In the upcoming budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to raise the minimum wage to £12.70 an hour: £26,416 annually for a full-time job. This means that the gap between salaries for minimum wage…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jodie Raybould, Lecturer in Psychology, Coventry University Rawpixel.com/Shutterstock Perhaps you know someone who always deflects blame onto you. Someone who smirks when caught in a lie, who twists your words until you’re apologising for their mistakes. And over time, you may start to wonder, can someone…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Benjamin Neimark, Senior Lecturer, School of Business Management, Queen Mary University of London People across the Gaza Strip have been returning to towns and cities badly damaged by the war after a fragile ceasefire took effect in October. Eventually, their lives will be restored and their…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Diane A. Rodgers, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies and Media & Communication, Sheffield Hallam University “Three parapsychologists lose their university funding” sounds like the beginning of a terrible joke, rather than a premise for one of the most successful films of the 1980s. Nonetheless, this is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex Dick Cheney, one of the most important figures in America’s neo-conservative movement, has died at the age of 84. Cheney had a long career in government and was considered by many as one of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dhritiraj Sengupta, Visiting Researcher, University of Southampton Reclamation at Colombo Port, Sri Lanka. Google Earth The coastlines I trace resemble logos and luxury icons: palms, crescents, pixelated grids, surreal ornaments etched into shallow seas. The cartography is striking. The environmental consequences are very concerning. There is…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University Salman Rushdie’s new collection of short stories urgently recollects his literary legacy. It’s as though time is increasingly uncertain so the need to tell stories is great. Its title, The Eleventh Hour, says as…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alexandra Fanghanel, Associate Professor in Criminology, University of Greenwich skypiercerr/Shutterstock Rape, as a crime, is widely deplored. Society and media condemn rapists, and rape and other sexually-related crimes carry potentially heavy prison sentences when perpetrators are convicted. So why, given this apparent intolerance for rape, do…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Schifferes, Honorary Research Fellow, City Political Economy Research Centre, City St George’s, University of London The UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, has made it clear that taxes will go up, and more cuts to welfare spending are on the horizon. The moves will be deeply unpopular…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dhritiraj Sengupta, Visiting Researcher, University of Southampton Reclamation at Colombo Port, Sri Lanka. Google Earth The coastlines I trace resemble logos and luxury icons: palms, crescents, pixelated grids, surreal ornaments etched into shallow seas. The cartography is striking. The environmental consequences are very concerning. There is…