Category: The Conversation

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Robert G. Patman, Professor of International Relations, University of Otago Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images There seems to be a mismatch between what a UN inquiry recently described as genocide in Gaza and New Zealand’s announcement at the United Nations on Saturday that it will…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tim Holmes, Lecturer in Criminology & Criminal Justice, Bangor University The UK’s new digital ID card scheme, announced by Keir Starmer on September 26, has two big questions swirling around it. Is it a solution to illegal immigration? And will it give the government too much…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Naporn Popattanachai, Lecturer in Environmental and Marine Law, University of Galway BobbyWjr / shutterstock Two-thirds of the world’s oceans lie beyond national borders, an unregulated expanse under growing pressure from mining, fishing and climate change. Now, a new UN treaty promises to change that – but…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Daanish Mustafa, Professor in Critical Geography, King’s College London Two children walk along a burst water pipeline in Karachi, southern Pakistan. Asianet-Pakistan / Shutterstock For ten days in April 2025, Pakistan almost came to a standstill. No freight was moving from its only port city, Karachi,…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Tom Montgomery, Lecturer in Work and Organisations, University of Stirling Nigel Farage’s proposal to abolish indefinite leave to remain is a shifting of the goalposts for those who have already come to the UK legally and settled. Framing issues of migration as a crisis has been…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Katie MacLean, PhD Student, University of Stirling Popstar Charli XCX is turning her hand to acting in the new film Erupcja. In it, she recites Lord Byron’s poem Darkness. Charli and Byron may be 200 years apart, but the legacies of Romantic poetry are alive in…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Jenni Ramone, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Global Literatures, Nottingham Trent University The Times has described the 2025 Booker Prize shortlist as “revenge of the middle-aged author”“. If the phrase sounds derogatory, it isn’t meant that way: the review also describes the shortlist as “novels for…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University Oleksandra Bolotina/Shutterstock.com Removing lymph nodes during cancer surgery has saved countless lives in many tumour types. Yet recent research is challenging parts of this long-standing practice. Imagine your body’s immune defences as a city, and lymph nodes…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Thomas Gift, Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL US president Donald Trump’s “meme coin” $TRUMP fell about 8% in five minutes in late September 2025, wiping millions off its value. Users can buy and sell this cryptocurrency, inspired by an internet…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Gregory Frame, Teaching Associate in Film and Television Studies, University of Nottingham Champions of free speech will have breathed a sigh of relief when The Walt Disney Company returned Jimmy Kimmel Live! to air on its US broadcast network, ABC, on September 23. Disney claims to…