Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation Mehaniq/Shutterstock One American company called Strategy owns more than 3% of all bitcoin in existence. Its executive chairman, Michael Saylor, is the pioneer of a new business model where publicly listed companies buy cryptocurrency assets to hold…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Vince Pescod, Senior lecturer, The University of Law The Trump administration is coming under fire for politicising the Department of Justice (DoJ) and undermining the US government’s enshrined separation of powers, which relies on an independent system of justice. This is a central principle of the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull The fifth season of Slow Horses, Apple TV’s gripping spy drama based on Mick Herron’s novel London Rules, shines a light on opportunist politicians, media manipulation, radicalisation and moral panics. In…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daniel O’Brien, Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex Easily the most poignant film I have seen this year, Dylan Southern’s The Thing With Feathers is adapted from Max Porter’s 2015 novella Grief Is The Thing With Feathers. Using both subtle drama…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lara Warmelink, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University The Traitors is a game built on lies and deceit. Contestants live together in a Scottish castle. Those secretly chosen as Traitors are tasked with “murdering” their fellow players while avoiding suspicion. The rest are Faithfuls, trying to…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom F. Wright, Reader in Rhetoric, University of Sussex Every few decades, Americans rediscover that their republic was built on a rejection – the rejection of being ruled by a monarch. Now, in one of the largest protest movements in many years, the phrase “No kings”…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Rosalie Hayes, Research Assistant, Centre for Public Health & Policy, Queen Mary University of London Cabotegravir is a form of pre-exposure prophylaxis (Prep). Svitlana Hulko/ Shutterstock The first ever injectable drug that can prevent HIV has been approved for use in England and Wales. The drug,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Monica Germanà, Reader in Gothic and Contemporary Studies, University of Westminster Warning: this article contains spoilers for the novel and film Frankenstein. Watching Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein after my return from the 2025 Arctic Circle Assembly (ACA) in Reykjavik, I was intrigued by his adaptation of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Adam Simpson, Visiting Scholar at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University; Senior Lecturer, International Studies, University of South Australia Sanae Takaichi has made history by becoming Japan’s first female prime minister. However, this was hardly a win for feminist or progressive politics. Takaichi…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Andreas Schloenhardt, Professor of Criminal Law, The University of Queensland Zhang Weiguo/VCG via Getty Images The spectacular heist of jewellery from the Louvre museum in Paris has many people wondering how a theft like this could occur in broad daylight and what might happen to…