By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Russia, Ukraine and the US have met for a second time for trilateral talks to discuss a possible cessation of hostilities. The meeting got off to the same depressing start as the first one had the week before. On February 3, the night before the three sides gathered in Abu Dhabi, a massive…
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By Daniel Scott, Professor and Strategic Director for Climate Change Education in Environment, University of Waterloo
Madeleine Orr, Assistant Professor, Sport Ecology, University of Toronto
Robert Steiger, Associate Professor, Department of Public Finance, University of Innsbruck
For the Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, climate change poses a risk and could impact where the Games can be held in the future.
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By Charles Z. Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
There have been renewed questions around the safety of the herbicide glyphosate in light of the recent retraction of an influential peer-reviewed research article. Originally published in 2000 in the academic journal Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology, the article claimed that glyphosate posed no risk to human health.
Glyphosate is widely…
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By Lindsey Blumell, Lecturer in Journalism, City St George's, University of London
As the US Department of Justice published 3.5 million pages of the Epstein files, deputy US attorney Todd Blanche indicated that the deluge of documents wouldn’t lead to additional criminal charges. Victims want “to be made whole”, he said, but that “doesn’t mean we can just create evidence or that we can just kind of come up with a case that isn’t there”.
Given the scale of the revelations, and the fact that millions…
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By Robert Colls, Professor Emeritus of History, De Montfort University
In October 1945, George Orwell responded to a letter from Mr J. Stewart Cook in the leftwing weekly newspaper Tribune calling for more science education.
The call can hardly have come as a surprise. War had brought science and engineering to the fore – from the Spitfire fighter plane and radar to Bletchley Park’s codebreakers – and now that war was over, many thought it was time to build a brave new world. Science had won the war; the view was that it should build the peace.
Only the week before, in the same newspaper, Orwell had warned of the dangers…
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By David Grecic, Professor of Sport and Physical Education, University of Lancashire
Alan Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Sport and Physical Education, University of Lancashire
Andrew Sprake, Lecturer in Physical Education & Sport / Course Leader MA in Physical Education and School Sport, University of Lancashire
Children could be empowered to choose activities that enable them to learn the knowledge and skills to make healthy life choices.
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By Louis Bayman, Associate Professor in Department of Film Studies, University of Southampton
The friendship here depicts something that our culture usually finds very difficult to imagine: an image of straight masculinity that is actually lovely.
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By Elizabeth Schafer, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
For Shakespeare’s Hamlet “the world is out of joint”. In screen writer Michael Lesslie’s collage of Shakespeare’s play, directed by Aneil Karia, Riz Ahmed’s intense, grief-wrecked Hamlet pays a high price as he tries to “set it right” in a corrupt corporate world.
This Hamlet is a radical adaptation that mostly uses Shakespeare’s words but relocates to contemporary, uber-wealthy south-Asian London. Hamlet has had a south-Asian makeover before now, most famously in Haider;…
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By Matthew Mokhefi-Ashton, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Nottingham Trent University
The US government has to balance the need to know with the right to privacy. It’s a delicate balancing act.
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By Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Professor of Health Economics, Bangor University
For nearly three decades, decisions about which medicines the NHS pays for have not been made by ministers, but by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, known as Nice. Its job has been powerful: to act as a check on the pharmaceutical industry by demanding evidence that new drugs are clinically effective and worth the price, protecting NHS budgets from spiralling costs.
That independence has helped to shape how NHS money is spent in England and Wales, and, just as importantly, what it is not spent on. Nice does not exist to block new medicines, but to make sure limited…
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