By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Tetyana Malyarenko, Professor of International Security, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
As widely expected, the EU has unlocked the disbursement of its previously agreed €90 billion (£78 billion) loan to Ukraine.
Together with the approval of the 20th…
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By Paul Whiteley, Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
UK prime ministers today are about as secure in their jobs as football managers. In the nearly three decades between 1979 and 2005, Britain had just three prime ministers: Margaret Thatcher, John Major and Tony Blair. From 2005-2015, we again had three: Blair, Gordon Brown and David Cameron.
But from then on we have had no less than six: Cameron, Theresa May, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Rishi Sunak and now Keir Starmer, currently fighting to retain his job and explaining to parliament why he supported Peter Mandelson for a key ambassadorship.
Prime ministers usually resign…
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By Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
“Most artists work alone, with little to steer them save crummy ‘how to’ guides.” So writes author and curator Hettie Judah in her new book, How to Enter the Art World.
At first glance, the book’s presentation might mislead the reader into believing it to be another giant crumb from the loaf of bad guidance. The title is set out in an authoritative, broadsheet newspaper font, the sort with decorative feet attached to the longer strokes:…
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By Dipa Kamdar, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Kingston University
Codeine is one of the UK’s most familiar painkillers, yet the same dose can be helpful, useless or risky depending on how a person’s body processes it.
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By Haosu Tang, Climate Scientist, University of Sheffield
In the middle of the Antarctic winter, during months of darkness when temperatures often dip below −30°C, the continent warmed dramatically.
In July and August 2024, temperatures in parts of East Antarctica rose by up to 28°C above average and stayed high for more than two weeks. To put that in perspective, a similar anomaly in the UK would push January temperatures into the mid-30°Cs.
In a recent study, colleagues…
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By Eerke Boiten, Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
What Palantir’s £330 million NHS data contract means for patients, privacy and the future of healthcare data in the UK.
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By Michelle Spear, Professor of Anatomy, University of Bristol
Your brain doesn’t run out of space – it runs out of attention. The science of why two people can live the same moment and remember it very differently.
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By Oula Kadhum, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London
You could be forgiven for thinking everyone in Russia either supports the war in Ukraine or is too scared to do anything about it. A dominant narrative is that Russian civil society is passive, complicit or has been quashed to the point of being neutralised.
Some elements of this may be true. Following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russian citizens criticising the war or…
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By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
With oil prices skyrocketing following the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, motorists around the world have been looking for ways to save money. Improvements…
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By Cassandra Burke Robertson, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Professional Ethics, Case Western Reserve University
Irina D. Manta, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law, Hofstra University
The Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke as “the first wave” of such measures, according to recent reporting by The New York Times. These cases are being assigned to prosecutors in 39 U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.
The administration has ordered Department of Homeland Security staffers to refer upward of 200 denaturalization cases per month to the Justice Department as part of its crackdown…
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