Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Faulkner, Senior Lecturer in Exercise Physiology, Nottingham Trent University The Tour de France is often called the world’s biggest annual sporting event. Each July up to 12 million people line the roadside, while the cumulative TV audience tops 3 billion viewers across 190 countries. In…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Cahal Moran, Visiting Fellow in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science, London School of Economics and Political Science During my adult life, I have never experienced what it’s like to live in a “good” economy. Starting with the global financial crash in 2008, which hit…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Lucy Poxon, Senior Lecturer in Counselling Psychology, Department of Social Work Counselling & Social Care , School of Childhood and Social Care, University of East London PeopleImages.com – Yuri A/Shutterstock When someone we care about is grieving the loss of a loved one, our natural instinct…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Amalendu Misra, Professor of International Politics, Lancaster University The Brics group of nations has just concluded its 17th annual summit in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. But, despite member states adopting a long list of commitments covering global governance, finance, health, AI and climate…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor The US government “remains upbeat” about the prospects for at least a ceasefire in Gaza, according to the latest reports from Washington, where the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has been meeting the US president, Donald Trump. Netanyahu…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Fiona McAuliffe, Lecturer of Ecology, Scotland’s Rural College Dennis Jacobsen/Shutterstock In the early 2000s, golden eagles soared once again over the hills of Donegal in northwest Ireland, for the first time in nearly a century. Their return was celebrated as a landmark in Irish conservation, a…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Laura O’Flanagan, PhD Candidate, School of English, Dublin City University American filmmaker David Cronenberg is a leading figure in body horror, a film genre that explores disturbing and often grotesque aspects of the human body. Films such as The Fly (1986), eXistenZ (1999) and Crimes of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marc Stears, Director of UCL Policy Lab and Professor of Political Science, UCL Simon Dawson/Number 10/Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND Exhausted from a long campaign but buoyed by an extraordinary victory, Keir Starmer stood on the steps of Downing Street just over one year ago to deliver his…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Richard Oram, Professor of Diabetes and Nephrology, University of Exeter Dorde Krstic/Shutterstock.com For more than a century, type 1 diabetes has meant one thing: a lifetime administering insulin. But for the first time, science is breaking that paradigm – not by managing the disease, but by…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Emma Connolly, Research Fellow, Digital Speech Lab, UCL During his recent public spat with Donald Trump, Elon Musk tweeted a poll asking if a new political party would better represent the 80% of voters in the middle. Hundreds of thousands of people responded and more than…