By Deniz Torcu, Adjunct Professor of Globalization, Business and Media, IE University
Across Europe, an emerging pattern is unsettling the assumptions of liberal educators and policymakers alike. Students who study in multiple countries, speak three or four languages, and graduate from globally ranked institutions are gravitating towards nationalist narratives. Not all of them, of course, but enough to make us pause.
It is increasingly clear that the far right no longer appeals solely to those left behind by globalisation. In addition to resentment and anger, it has successfully tapped into something much more primordial and elemental: belonging.
And Europe’s…
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By Danielle Bobker, Professor, English, Concordia University
Although controversial comedians give audiences endless fodder for discussion and debate, “never punch down” is the golden rule for humour for many Canadians. So when the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in 2021 on a Québécois comedian’s…
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By Sara Silvestri, Senior Lecturer & UG Programme Director, Department of International Politics, City St George's, University of London
As the US celebrated its 250th anniversary, Pope Leo XIV decided instead to visit the Sicilian island of Lampedusa.
Closer to Africa geographically than to Italy, the island is known as a place of sbarchi (sea landings) for thousands immigrants and asylum seekers journeying from Africa to Europe, and a place where thousands of others have died. While there, the pope visited…
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By Spencer Pearson-Atkins, PhD Candidate, Civil Engineering, University of British Columbia
Xu Jian (Joe) Yu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia
Younes Alila, Professor, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia
In the past 30 years, floods have affected more than 2.8 billion people worldwide and caused over 500,000 deaths. In Canada, flooding has caused significant damage and disruption to communities across the country. The 2021 floods in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley cost an estimated $14 billion in damages.
Human activity that changes landscapes can make floods larger and more frequent.…
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Monday, July 6, 2026
UN chief António Guterres appealed on Monday for far-reaching, worldwide controls on Artificial Intelligence, as increasingly powerful AI chips that are designed for civilian use shift to the battlefield, where “killer robots” are already the norm.
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By Magnus Marsden, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Sussex
Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
Dominic O'Key, Teaching Associate, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge
Glenn Fosbraey, Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Winchester
Matei Candea, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge
Five books that span time and place, from the music scene in 80s London to the philosophical scene of Ancient Rome.
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By Merryn Davies-Deacon, Senior Lecturer in French Linguistics, Queen's University Belfast
Cornish is part of the Celtic family of languages, traditionally spoken in Cornwall in the south-west of Great Britain. From the medieval period onwards, speakers in the region gradually shifted to English, leaving only a handful with knowledge of Cornish in the far west of Cornwall by the 18th and 19th centuries.
The 20th century saw a resurgence, and today, Cornish speakers are thought to number from around 400 to 4,000. Many are still based in Cornwall, although there is an active diaspora…
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By Mark Woolhouse, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, University of Edinburgh
Scientists discover new viruses every year. A catalogue of the riskiest ones could help us spot the next pandemic before it takes hold.
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By Anna Tarrant, Professor of Sociology, University of Lincoln
Mothers still bear the majority of care work and fathers are still largely excluded or pushed to take unpaid leave.
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By Ben Roberts, Senior Lecturer in Healthy Buildings, Loughborough University
As the UK prepares for the third heatwave of 2026, most people will be hoping to try and keep cool at home.
Building regulations to protect homes from overheating were introduced in 2022. These require all new homes to be checked at the design stage to see if they might be at risk of overheating. If the overheating risk is high,…
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