By Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
Mark Bennister, Visiting Reader, Queen Mary University of London
The failure of many of the UK’s recent prime ministers, who have passed through Downing Street in quick succession, seems easy to explain. Theresa May couldn’t do what she promised and didn’t “get Brexit done”. Boris Johnson broke his own rules, and the law. Liz Truss failed through sheer incompetence.
But Keir Starmer won an election by a landslide and led his party to victory after 14 years out of power. So why is he looking at a probable leadership challenge after less than two years in office?
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By Amnesty International
Reflections from a trans community organizer in Beirut When I was a little girl, I took a certain mischievous pleasure in getting under my father’s skin during the men’s World Cup. While we watched the matches together, I would deliberately cheer for Germany, the arch-rival of his beloved Brazil, just to provoke him. With every […] The post “Family, football and the World Cup should make space for everyone” appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Guest Contributor
In Hungary, AI fakes were more of an irritating factor, Russian disinformation did not reach the public, and EU regulations on transparency worked by forcing platforms to ban political ads.
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By Sabrina Lenzen, Senior Research Fellow in Health Economics, The University of Queensland
Long wait lists are the latest symptom of the aged care crisis. But this issue seems to be anything but a political priority.
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By Bethany Butchers, Associate Lecturer in Law, University of Newcastle
The landmark case, known as Tickle v Giggle, has been going for years. Today the Federal Court found transgender woman Roxanne Tickle had been discriminated against.
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By Wesley Widmaier, Professor of International Relations, Australian National University
This week’s summit has revived a 20-year-old idea of the ‘Group of Two’ superpowers working together with global benefits. But we’re now living in a different world.
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By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation
The initial top line emerging from the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing was that while the two leaders had talked trade, technology and the US war in Iran, the most potentially hazardous issue was Taiwan. The Chinese foreign ministry reported that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, told the US president, Donald Trump, that “the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China-US relations”.
Handled properly, China’s statement said, relationship between China and the US will remain stable. “If handled poorly”, Xi told the US president, “the two countries will collide or even clash, putting…
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Sociologist Art Jipson talks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about how clamouring for the release of the Epstein files grew on fringe spaces of the internet.
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By Alexandra Lourenço Dias, Camões Lecturer in Lusophone Studies, King's College London
At first glance, these look like sketches – the kind artists make on the way to something more finished. But that expectation doesn’t quite hold. The drawings assert themselves: restless, unresolved, and often more direct than the paintings they eventually lead to. This is Story Line, the latest exhibition of Paula Rego at the Victoria Miro gallery in London.
Dame Paula Rego was born in Lisbon in 1935, grew up under the Estado Novo…
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By Lynsey Cowlishaw, PhD Candidate in History and Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King's College London
Ellizabeth I’s refusal to go to bed was a deliberate final act, shaped by a lifetime of political strategy, emotional restraint and unresolved reckoning.
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