By Christopher R. Hill, Professor of History, Faculty of Business and Creative Industries, University of South Wales
Jonathan Hogg, Senior Lecturer in Twentieth Century History, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures, University of Liverpool
Communities and servicemen have long argued they were harmed by fallout from above-ground nuclear weapons tests – but the UK government has always denied this.
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By Manal Mohammed, Senior Lecturer, Medical Microbiology, University of Westminster
New research suggests drought-parched soil turbocharges antibiotic resistance in nature, and with UK summers getting drier, that’s a growing problem.
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By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
If you live with a pet, you might feel like you can almost read each other’s minds.
You might even have experienced your pet responding to your emotional state. Animals seem to have impressive skills at detecting our state of health too.
However, new…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Albanese government will increase defence spending to about 3% of GDP by 2033 in its 2026 National Defence Strategy to be unveiled on Thursday.
But it is using a revised definition that, in effect, makes the defence spend appear larger than it is.
The Trump administration has repeatedly made it clear Australia should boost its defence spending. Last year, a top Pentagon official, Elbridge Colby, cited…
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By Robert Lawson, Associate Professor in Sociolinguistics, Birmingham City University
Louis Theroux’s recent Netflix documentary Inside the Manosphere shines a spotlight on masculinity influencers and the dangers of online misogyny, conspiracy theories and anti-feminist ideologies. Responses to the documentary have ranged from outrage to disbelief, criticising how the manfluencers treat the women…
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By Matt Barlow, Lecturer International Political Economy, University of Glasgow
Benjamin Hunter, Senior Lecturer in International Political Economy, University of Glasgow
In March, the UK foreign secretary Yvette Cooper made a statement to parliament setting out the government’s international aid priorities. With an aid budget significantly smaller than it was five years ago, Cooper proposed which countries and programmes would receive support.
This was the first time MPs and the public heard any spending detail after the latest round of cuts…
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By Allison M. Roth, Assistant Professor of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri-Columbia
Irene Gregory-Eaves, Professor of Biology, McGill University
People who are trying to fish – or manage the ecosystems – in darker waters may need to adapt to different water conditions.
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
When government officials hold prayer services, quote scripture and engage in religious proselytizing at the workplace, is it religious freedom – or an old-fashioned First Amendment violation?
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By Laura Beers, Professor of History, American University
In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’
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By Joëlle Rollo-Koster, Professor of Medieval History, University of Rhode Island
Alarm over the war of words between President Donald Trump and Pope Leo XIV has escalated with remarkable speed, from The New York Times to the Daily Beast and local television.
The pope has repeatedly called for peace in the Middle East since the start of the Iran war, insisting that “God…
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