Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Briefing by Elyse Mosquini, Permanent Observer to the United Nations, at the UN Security Council Arria-formula Meeting: “A Decade of Resolution 2286: Protecting Medical Care in Conflict Amid Evolving Threats”.
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By Joel Busher, Professor of Political Sociology, Coventry University
Tufyal Choudhury, Associate Professor, Durham Law School
Following recent antisemitic violence and aggression, calls from some quarters for a temporary ban on pro-Palestine marches have gained traction. Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch has firmly supported a ban, while Keir Starmer, the prime minister, has suggested that some protests may need to be stopped. The government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has called for a moratorium…
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By Emily Roberts-Tyler, Lecturer in Education, Bangor University
The upcoming Senedd elections may shift the balance of power in Wales. Any new government must immediately grapple with the significant ongoing challenges of embedding educational reforms across the additional learning needs system.
Recent policy proposals to change the system of support for children with special educational needs in…
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By Samira Mehta, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies & Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
As birth control became increasingly accepted, some supporters’ views were based in religious beliefs about what motherhood should look like.
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By Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University
Operation Epic Fury is over. Or at least, that’s what the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, announced on May 5, describing any further US action in the Gulf as purely “defensive”.
Rubio’s insistence that the conflict the US and Israel launched on February 28 achieved its objectives is open for debate. But this change of tone and terminology is likely to reflect arguments that raged…
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By Nurul Hassan Mohammad, PhD Candidate, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Over two years of interviews with a cohort of STEM college students, many described feeling something personal was lost after using AI to improve their writing.
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By Xavier Bonnet, Directeur de Recherche CNRS à l'UMR 7372 en biologie et écologie des reptiles, Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé; La Rochelle Université
Female tortoises are bearing the brunt of the brutal behaviour of their male counterparts, who are regularly pushing them off cliffs in North Macedonia.
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By Fraser McMillan, Lecturer in Scottish Electoral Politics, University of Edinburgh
Barring a last-minute surprise, the Holyrood election will probably return the Scottish National Party (SNP) to government for the fifth time in a row. The nationalists have been in office for so long that thousands of Scots who weren’t even born when the party entered office in 2007 are now going to the polls for the first time.
But just 23% of respondents think the Scottish government is doing a good job, according to the Scottish Election Study’s final pre-election…
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By Hannah Bunting, Senior Lecturer in Quantitative British Politics and Co-director of The Elections Centre, University of Exeter
Voters are casting their ballots in elections to 136 English local authorities, the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Senedd. For most, it’s the first opportunity to cast a ballot since the 2024 general election. This set of elections is complex, taking place in multiple locations with ballots being counted over several days and across three electoral systems.
In England, local elections run on a four-year cycle, which means different sets of seats in various locations are contested in any given year. This is a bumper year, with around…
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By Barry Langford, Professor of Film Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London
In its rapid pacing, brief runtime and propulsive, hard-boiled action, Normal positions itself as a latter-day B-movie and mostly delivers.
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