Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Naomi Joseph, Arts + Culture Editor, The Conversation John le Carré was a master of the spy novel – not by glamorising espionage, but by stripping it of illusion. His stories abandoned the trope of the suave, heartless agent in favour of morally complex characters navigating…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Julian Hargreaves, Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Criminology, City St George’s, University of London A man believed to be Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen born in Syria, has been shot dead by police after launching an attack on a synagogue in Manchester on Yom…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Scrivens, Programme Leader – MA Musical Theatre, University of Surrey Tilly Norwood is the hottest actor in Hollywood right now. Her career has been covered by Variety, the BBC and Forbes, to name just a few publications. All of this is publicity that a young…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Elizabeth Rosser, Associate Professor of Aging, Rheumatology and Regenerative Medicine, UCL Gomez first shared her diagnosis in 2015. Fred Duval/ Shutterstock Actress, singer and makeup mogul Selena Gomez has been candid about her experience of living with lupus. Since 2015, Gomez has documented on social media…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Johannes Petry, CSGR Research Fellow, University of Warwick GaudiLab/Shutterstock Does all music sound the same these days? Many listeners – and artists – think so. There’s a concern that today’s hits are increasingly generic, predictable and indistinguishable. And it might all come down to money. Streaming…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Martina Angela Caretta, Associate Professor in Human Geography, Lund University FAMILY STOCK/Shutterstock Since 2024 I have been researching the social dynamics surrounding the establishment of one of the most prominent European battery manufacturers in Skellefteå, Sweden. I have interviewed almost 40 people, from civil servants, former…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Maria Ahmad, PhD Candidate, Cognitive Neuroscience, Psychology and Language Sciences, UCL Indigenous Marshallese sailor Clansey Takia. Chewy Lin, CC BY-NC-ND One of the biggest navigation challenges is knowing where you are in the open ocean without tools or devices. This remarkable skill is exemplified by the…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Joseph J. Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Global Studies, Appalachian State University Cubans gather amid a blackout in Havana on Sept. 10, 2025. Yamil Lage/AFP via Getty Images The lights went out in Cuba again. For the fifth time in a year, all of Cuba plunged…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Emily Brayshaw, Honorary Research Fellow, School of Design, University of Technology Sydney Taylor Swift/Instagram The iconic feathered showgirl was born amid the chaos of the first world war, when the wealthy, global French superstar Gaby Deslys entertained Parisians and Allied soldiers in a 1917 show…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Andonea Jon Dickson, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Edinburgh Under President Donald Trump, the United States is expanding its efforts to detain and deport non-citizens at an alarming rate. In recent months, the Trump administration made deals with a number of third states to receive…