By Thomas Lockwood, PhD Researcher in Politics, York St John University
ITV’s newly released documentary Undercover: A Year in Reform has raised fresh questions about Nigel Farage’s party, after covertly recorded footage showed councillors and candidates making racist, Islamophobic, misogynistic and violent remarks. The investigation also exposed the party’s vetting procedures and internal discussions about controversial candidates.
The immediate consequences have included resignations and suspensions of Reform UK councillors and candidates. But whether the documentary’s revelations…
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By Daria Dergacheva
“Many incidents of harassment, intimidation, or discomfort in public spaces never become official complaints. Some women do not believe reporting will lead to change.”
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Tuesday, October 20, 2026
More than 250,000 people have now fled renewed fighting in Yemen, the UN said on Tuesday, citing particular concern for those sheltering in the southwestern city of Taiz and the wider governorate, where access is “essentially blocked”.
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By Stine Willum Adrian, Professor in Sociology, University of Tromsø
“They invaded us once by boat, and now they’re doing it with sperm!” Playful headlines like this are rapidly making Danish donor sperm as renowned as Danish bacon, Lego and designer furniture.
You may not (yet) be aware that Denmark is considered “the sperm capital…
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By Bernardino D'Amico, Professor, School of Computing, Engineering and the Built Environment, Edinburgh Napier University
Most people who have an electric car have access to a driveway or private parking. In England, 90% EV owners can park easily and charge theirs from home. But roughly 40% of UK households don’t have off-street parking, so the question is how they would charge an EV and would easy access to home-charging influence their decision to acquire one.
The practical problems are well documented. In a block of flats or a tenement, installing an EV charger may not be an option due to…
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By Giles Gasper, Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
Brian Tanner, Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University, Durham University
A sequence on the Bayeux tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella (“those people marvel at the star”). Above Harold sits Halley’s comet, with ghost-like invasion boats in the border below – a Norman framing of Harold as a doomed usurper whose betrayal invited destruction.
A comet, or the regum terror…
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By Moira Hulme, Professor of Education, University of the West of Scotland
Teacher shortages are affecting school systems in countries across the world.
Governments have responded with initiatives to attract graduates into teaching. While much attention has focused on increasing supply, far less attention has been paid to why experienced teachers decide to leave, despite the high costs of turnover in recruitment, training and lost continuity.
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By Arya Assadi Langroudi, Senior Lecturer in Geotechnical Engineering, University of East London
A crack appears beside a window after weeks of scorching weather. As much as you might hope the ground beneath your house will recover with the first rain, the effects of a dry summer can continue long after temperatures fall.
The UK is recovering from the hottest summer on record. The drought, however, has not simply disappeared. According to the…
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By Toni Williams, Associate Professor, Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, Durham University
New research reveals how fear of losing disability benefits can discourage people from exercising, even when being active could improve their health.
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By Charlie Scherer, PhD Candidate in Earth Sciences, UCL
Cassius Morrison, Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeontology, UCL
The fossilised skull of a new species of mysterious meat-eating dinosaur from the Isle of Wight has been rediscovered in the collections of the Natural History Museum after over 100 years in storage.
Over its nearly 150-year history, this London museum has become home to over 30 million specimens, making it fairly easy to forget about the odd fossil or rock here and there. This is almost definitely what happened to the only known fossil of the UK’s newest dinosaur, a two-legged meat-eating theropod (the dinosaur…
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