By Frida Mannerfelt, Associate Professor in Practical Theology, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University
Alexander Maurits, Associate Professor of Church History, Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University
When Sarah Mullally was confirmed as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury, this meant a woman would become spiritual leader of the Church of England and worldwide Anglican communion for the first time in history. For many, it has been a welcome shift that recognises the importance of female leadership at all levels – both ecclesiastical and secular.
But some within the Church took issue with Mullally’s accession. For example, the Global Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans, a network of conservative Anglican churches across Africa and Asia, issued a…
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By Weronika Osmolska, PhD Candidate, School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, University of Leeds
Across the northern hemisphere, cold spells are becoming milder as the temperatures rise, with their intensity decreasing by 0.3°C per decade.
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By Joseph Janes, Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Swansea University
When someone buys a drug illegally, they cannot be sure exactly what is in it.
More than one in three samples submitted to the Welsh Emerging Drug Identification Service (Wedinos) where the buyer had said what substance they believed they had purchased, contained something other than what they expected. Between April 2025 and March 2026, 36.6%…
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By Henrietta Moore, Founder & Director of the UCL Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL
In December, the UK will take over the G20 presidency from the United States. The world is a remarkably different place since the UK last hosted the G20 in 2009. Back then, it led a collective response to the 2008 financial crash, mobilising more than US$1 trillion (£740 billion) to rebuild economies across the world.
In 2027, it will arguably face an even stiffer challenge – leading cooperation when the major powers in the world no longer see eye-to-eye on the nature of problems, let alone the pathway to solutions.
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By Bill Jeffery, Contract Instructor, Health Law, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on glyphosate relieves the sellers of hundreds of pesticides from obligations to warn customers about potential dangers.
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By Wayne Unger, Associate Professor of Law, Quinnipiac University
A judge has sided with the three news organizations President Donald Trump barred from the White House – for now.
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By Amnesty International
In a new report released today, Amnesty International documented widespread human rights violations committed by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies during the Trump administration’s large-scale, militarized immigration enforcement operations in Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul, New Orleans and Washington, DC. The report, “We Had Whistles, They […] The post USA: Amnesty International Calls for ICE to Be Abolished After Documenting Widespread Human Rights Violations in Anti-Immigrant Operations appeared first on Amnesty…
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By Amnesty International
One year ago on 25 September 2025, the Huthi de facto authorities in Sana’a arbitrarily detained prominent lawyer and human rights defender Abdul Majid Sabra. In response, Diala Haidar, Amnesty International’s Yemen Researcher, said: “Abdul Majid Sabra, a lawyer who dedicated his career to defending those detained based on the peaceful exercise of their human […] The post Yemen: One year on, Huthis must release arbitrarily detained lawyer Abdul Majid Sabra appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Rachel Hewett, Associate professor, University of Birmingham
Through my research I have had the fortune of following 80 young people with vision impairment over 11 years. I tracked their journey from school through to adulthood, speaking at regular intervals to establish what had happened since we last spoke, what had gone well and what could have been improved.
The aim was to observe the different pathways…
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By Vanessa Corcoran, Director of Catholic Studies, Georgetown University
With deepfakes on the rise, forgery and deception are often viewed as distinctly modern problems – a new era of misinformation made possible by artificial intelligence. One of the first alarming cases occurred at the start of the war in Ukraine when a doctored video appeared to show President Volodymyr Zelenskyy telling his soldiers to lay down their weapons.
Yet the impulse to deceive people by fabricating evidence far predates the digital age. And…
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