Friday, November 13, 2026
The following is a statement attributable to ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric on autonomous weapons ahead of the seventh review conference of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons
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By Jessica Field, Research Associate, Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute, University of Manchester
“You don’t care. You only pretend to care!” an exhausted, homeless Cathy shouts at a board of welfare officials just days before her children are taken from her. It’s a scene from Cathy Come Home, the 1966 BBC drama that remains – 60 years on – a touchstone for discussions on homelessness.
Written by Jeremy Sandford and directed by Ken Loach, the television play follows Cathy and her husband Reg, who are expecting a child when Reg loses his income through injury. The couple then lose their home, the first…
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By Wändi Bruine de Bruin, Director of Behavioral Science & Policy Initiative, Schaeffer Institute of Public Policy & Government Service, USC Price School of Public Policy, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
Gale Sinatra, Distinguished Professor Emerita of Education and Psychology, University of Southern California
Phrases like ‘climate crisis,’ ‘climate emergency’ or ‘climate justice’ used at COP31 might seem to escalate urgency, but a large survey shows they don’t help and may actually hurt.
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By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
Andy Burnham’s consumer focus might cut fossil fuel use in the long-term, if policies force prices of climate friendly options down.
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By Edward White, Assistant lecturer in Psychology, Kingston University
Take from the rich and give to the poor. But the rich can still punish the poor. So who really prospers?
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By Benedict Carpenter van Barthold, Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
The originality of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant is often sensationalised, with the focus being on their unconventional sex lives as much as their avant-garde art.
The pair were members of the informal Bloomsbury group, a loose constellation of gilded artists, writers and intellectuals centred around Gordon Square in central London. The group is coarsely remembered as much for its triangular romantic liaisons as its cultural…
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
An experimental test picked up a signal in stored blood samples from people with tiny patches of abnormal cells in their fallopian tubes.
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By Narmin Nahidi, Assistant Professor in Finance, University of Exeter
When I arrived at work to discover that Outlook had vanished from my computer, I wondered how I was supposed to get through my working day. No emails. No calendar. No meeting invitations.
Then another thought crossed my mind: when did we become so dependent on a single technology company that losing access to one application could disrupt our entire working routine? And what is the financial and environmental cost of that dependence?
We regularly discuss sustainability in terms of reducing…
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By Hannah V. Herrero, Associate Professor of Geography & Sustainability; Director of Sustainability, University of Tennessee
Erin L. Bunting, Assistant Professor of Geography, Michigan State University
Jane Southworth, Professor of Geography, University of Florida
Jason K. Blackburn, Professor of Geography, University of Florida
Stephanie Insalaco-Wyner, Assistant Professor of Geographic Information Sciences, Southwestern University
Under pressure from a changing climate, vineyards are finding natural ways to fortify their soil and protect water supplies, showing conservation and farming can thrive together.
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By Tamirace Fakhoury, Associate Professor of International Politics and Conflict, Tufts University
“No one speaks on behalf of Lebanon,” declared the nation’s prime minister, Nawaf Salam, at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2026.
Decisions of war and peace, he continued, belong solely to the Lebanese state. Salam went on to call for a consolidated ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Shiite political party with a military arsenal, along with the withdrawal of Israeli troops and the implementation of U.N.…
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