Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ross Walker, Lecturer in Sports Management, University of Stirling On September 8, the day before my holiday in Nepal was scheduled to end, police in the capital, Kathmandu, and other cities opened fire on young members of the public who were protesting against government corruption. At…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Yuval Katz, Lecturer in Communication and Media, Loughborough University Bartolomiej Pietrzyk/Shutterstock When US president Donald Trump recently announced his 20-point peace plan for Israel and Hamas, he claimed the moment was: “Potentially, one of the great days ever in civilisation … and I’m not just talking…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Whiteley, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex Against the backdrop of a fragmenting political system, the 2025 party conference season in the UK has been an unusual one. The Greens and Reform, having secured strong results in the 2024 election, enjoyed an unprecedented level…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By David J. Bailey, Associate Professor in Politics, University of Birmingham The UK government has announced plans for police to get new powers to restrict “repeat protests”, including banning such protests outright. The home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, said that police should be able to consider the “cumulative…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matt Walsh, Head of the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University The BBC’s livestreaming of the Glastonbury performance by punk-rap duo Bob Vylan broke editorial guidelines on preventing harm and offence to viewers, according to the corporation’s complaints unit. More than 5,000 people complained…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Mark Gatto, Assistant Professor in Critical Organisation Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle Warning: this article contains spoilers. In One Battle After Another, three characters (Bob Ferguson, Colonel Steven Lockjaw and Sergio St Carlos) represent three different models of fatherhood. Fatherhood is a timely theme. The place of…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Pooja Saini, Professor in Suicide and Self Harm Prevention, Liverpool John Moores University Gladskikh Tatiana/Shutterstock.com Hormonal changes during menopause can drive suicidal thoughts – a crisis that healthcare services have failed to recognise or adequately address. The devastating link is laid bare in research my colleagues…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ayman El Hajjar, Senior Lecturer & Head of the Cyber Security Research Group, University of Westminster Tero Vesalainen/Shutterstock When cybercriminals targeted the UK nursery chain Kido, it represented a disturbing new low for the hackers. They threatened to expose personal data about young children and their…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Melina Malli, Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Institute of Population Ageing, University of Oxford I Swear is a biographical drama based on Scottish campaigner John Davidson’s experience of Tourette’s syndrome. Spanning his teenage years to the present, it follows the first tics and their social fallout. It…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Regulatory T cells monitor other immune cells and ensure that our immune system tolerates our own tissues. © The Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine. Ill. Mattias Karlén, CC BY-NC The 2025 Nobel prize in physiology or…