By Lakshminarasimhan Vedanthachari, Associate Professor of Operations Management, Royal Holloway, University of London
Jaguar Land Rover’s decision to cut thousands of jobs comes after years of dealing with some extremely tough terrain in the world of car sales. Tough obstacles have included weakening demand from China, a shortage of vital semiconductors and the US slapping new tariffs on imported vehicles.
Then in Aug 2025, a major cyber attack caused production at Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) to grind to a halt for five weeks, losing the firm millions of pounds of revenue every day.
But these external…
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By Arash Beidollahkhani, Research Fellow at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester
Authoritarian governments have long drawn ordinary citizens into political surveillance. Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union encouraged denunciations. East Germany’s secret police service, the Stasi, embedded informants in workplaces and neighbourhoods.
From 1960, Cuba’s…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The discussions between the two leaders reflect a desire by both sides to reduce the heat around the migration issue, which is being fuelled by One Nation.
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By Clara Juarez Miro, Investigadora Beatriz Galindo, Departament de Ciència Política, Dret Constitucional i Filosofia del Dret, Universitat de Barcelona
As support for populist movements surges around the world, the term has become something of a buzzword. It is used to describe very different movements and public figures in very different political contexts. These range from rightwing…
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By Emma Norris, Senior Lecturer, Health Sciences, Brunel University of London
Kristina Pfeffer, Researcher, Sport and Health Science, University of Southern Denmark
A typical weekday in Denmark and the UK looks similar on the surface, but hour by hour, the differences tell an interesting story.
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By Kate Devlin, Professor of Artificial Intelligence & Society, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London
Artificial intelligence (AI) could wipe out humanity this decade, according to three researchers from the US company Anthropic. One of the employees, Jacob Coxon, has quit the AI firm.
His predictions were backed by two other current Anthropic researchers in posts on social media. On X, Coxon claimed: “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade. This is not a marketing stunt.”
It’s…
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By Stephen Garland, Senior Lecturer, Sports Physiology, Malmö University
Avid runners are often chasing speed. Whether that’s improving their 5K or shaving seconds off their marathon time to nail a personal best. The idea that exercise should involve pushing further, harder or faster has long been embedded in fitness culture.
But against this backdrop, some people have adopted the almost counter-cultural belief that the key to fitness is to take things slow.
The growing popularity of the “slow jogging” trend online counters a lot of what we’ve been taught about fitness. Rather than striving for speed, the slow jogging trend encourages people…
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By Michael Craig, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Filling every spare moment with a podcast, message or social-media scroll may deny the brain a useful window for consolidating new memories.
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By Joan Fitzpatrick, Reader in Renaissance Literature, Loughborough University
Humans have spent thousands of years searching for a hangover cure – yet the ultimate price of heavy drinking remains unchanged.
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By Hannah Cloke, Regius Professor of Meteorology and Climate Science, University of Reading
We have built the system to shed much of the surplus rather than keep it. We allow a wet winter to rush away, then ration what remains through a dry summer.
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