Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Keith Rochfort, Assistant Professor, School of Biotechnology, Life Sciences Institute, Dublin City University Vitaliy Abbasov/Shutterstock As colder months set in, respiratory infections begin to climb: everything from the common cold and flu to COVID. It’s a time when healthy lungs matter more than ever. Yet the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jacques Hartmann, Professor of International Law and Human Rights, University of Dundee Withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), once a fringe idea, has become a defining issue for political parties. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch, who previously opposed leaving, has now said…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Damien Short, Director of the Human Rights Consortium and Reader in Human Rights, School of Advanced Study, University of London Three environmental defenders – people who take action against the exploitation of natural resources – are murdered or disappeared somewhere in the world every week. The…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Dan Baumgardt, Senior Lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of Bristol The 2025 darts World Grand Prix is currently well underway. One of the favourites to win the title is Luke “The Nuke” Littler, who in January became the youngest World Champion in history at…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Steve Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Leeds Beckett University North Monaco/Shutterstock From Disney’s Scrooge McDuck and Cruella de Vil to DC Comics’ Lex Luthor to and Mr Burns in the Simpsons, there are plenty of examples of wealthy people using their money and power in evil…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Penelope Hannant, Assistant Professor in Educational Inclusion, University of Birmingham PeopleImages/Shutterstock Whether and when to use the label “dyslexia” has been a perennial debate in education. Some experts and academics argue that there is too much focus on the diagnosis of dyslexia, rather than on providing…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Dana El Kurd, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond As negotiators meet in Egypt to discuss a Trump-backed peace proposal, displaced Gazans make a daily trek to find drinking water. AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana Tony Blair, the man being tapped by U.S. President…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Asaf Siniver, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham When Donald Trump called Benjamin Netanyahu on October 4 to tell him that Hamas had agreed to at least some of his 20-point ceasefire plan, the Israeli prime minister’s equivocal response was he saw “nothing to celebrate,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Scott Lucas, Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin After two years of violence and the deaths of 68,000 Palestinians and more than 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, it has been reported that Hamas and the Netanyahu government will sign a phase…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Reihana Mohideen, Principal Advisor, Just Energy Transition and Health, Nossal Institute for Global Health, The University of Melbourne Commuters pass a new solar array in the Maldives. Ishara S. Kodikara/Getty For the first time, renewables have toppled coal as the world’s leading source of electricity,…