By Adam Behr, Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
London’s National Gallery has launched a “voluntary exit” scheme for staff to address an £8.2 million deficit, with the possibility of redundancies to follow. The news bodes ill for cultural institutions and cuts, in contrast to the recent announcement of additional cultural funding from the UK government.
If the National Gallery – one of Britain’s leading…
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By Aimee Ambrose, Professor of Energy Policy, Member of Fuel Poverty Evidence and Trustee of the Fuel Poverty Research Network, Sheffield Hallam University
Jenny Palm, Professor of Urban Governance, International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics, Lund University
Two professors of energy studies – one British, the other Swedish – explore the very different histories of home heating in their countries.
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By Alicia Denby, Lecturer in Sociology and Criminology, Manchester Metropolitan University
Reports of widespread “dating burnout” and a cultural shift towards heteropessimism – a feeling of disappointment or despair at the state of relations between men and women – have caused panic in the media and dating apps.
Cultural debates have emerged around an alleged “rise…
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By Quynh Hoang, Lecturer in Marketing and Consumption, Department of Marketing and Strategy, University of Leicester
Big tech companies argue their platforms are communication tools not traps, and that addiction is a mischaracterisation of high engagement.
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By Arshad Majid, Professor of Cerebrovascular Neurology, School of Medicine and Population Health, University of Sheffield
Favour Felix-Ilemhenbhio, Research Fellow, specialising in gene therapy for cerebrovascular diseases, Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), University of Sheffield
Klaudia Kocsy, Molecular biologist and ARUK Research Fellow,, University of Sheffield
Explosions can damage brain cells and blood vessels even when scans look normal, leaving lasting symptoms that are often missed.
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By Byron Hyde, Philosopher of Science and Public Policy, University of Bristol, Honorary Research Associate, Bangor University
We’re outraged that the Enhanced Games allows doping, yet fans happily watch boxers suffer brain damage. The real scandal is the hypocrisy about athletic harm.
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By Jordan Beaumont, Senior Lecturer in Food and Nutrition, Sheffield Hallam University
Weight-loss injections have rapidly moved from specialist clinics to social media feeds and high-street pharmacies. Known as GLP-1 medications, they were originally developed to support those with type 2 diabetes but are now widely used to support weight loss.
These medicines mimic a hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1, which helps regulate appetite and blood sugar. By slowing digestion and increasing feelings of fullness, they often lead people to eat less and lose weight.
Evidence suggests…
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By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
The secretary of state’s speech was less divisive than J.D. Vance’s a year earlier, but it did not mark any significant change in US foreign policy under Trump.
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By Amnesty International
Commemorating the second anniversary of the death in custody of Russian opposition politician and prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “Two years have passed since Aleksei Navalny, a prisoner of conscience and one of the most fearless voices against corruption and state repression in Russia, died in a remote […] The post Russia: Two years after Navalny’s death, authorities evade justice, continue to hound his supporters appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Greek emergency personnel wait to transfer bodies of dead migrants, following migrant's boat collision with coast guard off the island of Chios, in the port of Chios, Greece, February 3, 2026. © 2026 Konstantinos Anagnostou/Reuters The recent acquittal of 24 humanitarian workersby a court in Lesbos, in what the European Parliament called the “largest case of criminalization of solidarity in Europe”, should have been a turning point in the Greek government’s assault on civil society. Instead, it has doubled down.On February 5, Greece’s Parliament passed a government-led…
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