Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Alex Heffron, PhD Candidate in Geography, Lancaster University Sean Matthews, the Reform UK leader of Lincolnshire County Council, has said he’ll “lie down in front of bulldozers” to stop Britain’s largest solar farm being built in the county. He’s taking sides in a new rural culture…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Joel Gray, Associate Dean, Sheffield Hallam University There can be no doubt that any conversation about British girlbands of the last 30 years would be dominated by Spice Girls. In whichever corner of the globe you are, they were the defacto pop force of the late…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ian Whittaker, Senior Lecturer in Physics, Nottingham Trent University The United States and China are locked in a contest to be the first country to send humans to the lunar surface in half a century. But there’s a developing twist: an emerging competition between American companies…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Damian Bailey, Professor of Physiology and Biochemistry, University of South Wales European Space Agency, CC BY-NC-ND On January 14 2004, the United States announced a new “Vision for Space Exploration”, promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, Nasa’s Artemis…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jane Wright, Commissioning Editor, Arts & Culture, The Conversation The more I see Benedict Cumberbatch on screen the more I marvel at his talent as an actor. Recently I have watched him in Eric on Netflix, as an unravelling Sesame Street-style puppeteer looking for his abducted…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Sophie Heywood, Associate Professor in the Department of Language and Cultures, University of Reading The Children’s Booker hopes to get more kids reading. PeopleImages/Shutterstock The buzz around the newly announced Children’s Booker has focused on its potential to “tell kids they matter”, as they get their…

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 Our brain’s perception of beauty can be re-trained. bigbambe/ Shutterstock Beauty standards have always evolved, but in today’s social media age, they shift…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Robert Muggah, Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow na Bosch Academy e Co-fundador, Instituto Igarapé; Princeton University A man rides past a poster of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and an anti-tank barricade in Caracas on Oct. 28, 2025. Juan Barreto/AFP via Getty Images The U.S. military buildup…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matt Sleat, Reader in Political Theory, University of Sheffield The US vice-president, J. D. Vance, has identified himself as being “of the post-liberal right”. Vance is generally thought of as more influential than many previous US vice-presidents and the odds are narrowing on him running for…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Cindy McCreery, Associate Professor of History, University of Sydney Prince Andrew will be stripped of his royal titles, meaning he will no longer be called “prince” or “His Royal Highness”. A statement from Buckingham Palace said: His Majesty has today initiated a formal process to…