By Sam Power, Lecturer in Politics, University of Bristol
Questions about a £5 million gift to the leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage from a crypto billionaire simply won’t go away. As someone who spends their life thinking, writing and talking about money in politics, I’ve been left with at least five questions that remain unanswered. These centre not just on the donation and Reform’s financial arrangements, but also on what it says about the system of political finance in the UK.
1. Should he have declared it?
It appears so. It was reported in late April that Farage…
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By Ed Krčma, Associate Professor of Art History, School of History and Art History, University of East Anglia
Jessica Barker, Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History, Courtauld Institute of Art
Saint Benedict imagined a life of stability, community and measure; one devoted to the care for souls and, ultimately, to spiritual salvation.
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By Amarnath Amarasingam, Associate professor, Queen's University, Ontario
The mass shooting at an Islamic centre in San Diego is the latest in a self-replicating network of far-right violence in which each attack is designed to inspire the next.
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By Claudine Mangen, RBC Professor in Responsible Organizations and Full Professor, Concordia University
An organizational researcher argues that biases about who leads and who cares are baked into the structures of work itself, which is detrimental to women.
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By Peter Tennant, George Saden Visiting Associate Professor, Yale University; University of Leeds
Visiting galleries might enrich your life, but the evidence that it slows your ageing is less certain than recent headlines suggest.
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By Amnesty International
Amnesty International supports a class action lawsuit filed today by The Privacy Collective on behalf of Dutch internet users against the American tech company AppLovin. The case focuses on the alleged unlawful collection and trading of personal data of millions of Dutch people via tracking software in popular mobile games and apps. This is what’s happening Through software built into countless popular games and apps, AppLovin is […] The post Netherlands: Amnesty International supports strategic lawsuit against alleged illegal tracking software in games and apps appeared first on Amnesty…
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Albanese government has found itself on the thorny end of a social media campaign post-budget as it watches One Nation ride a wave.
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By Victoria-Elliot Bush, PhD Candidate, Linguistics, Queen Mary University of London
I’m not surprised that Talk Like Yoda Day exists. Over 40 years since his Star Wars debut (puppeteered and voiced by Frank Oz), Yoda remains a recognisable figure in pop culture. This is in part due to his distinctive and frequently imitated version of English.
What stands out about Yoda’s speech is his unusual word order. Think of some of his most famous lines: “Patience you must have, my young Padawan” and “Your path you must decide”. This is clearly not the typical English word order, but it’s…
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By Nicole Froio
In the last decade in Brazil, transphobia has become one of the main tools for disseminating misinformation. In many cases, it is spread by elected politicians with millions of followers
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By Adrian Esterman, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Adelaide University
Diseases once thought confined to history are making a comeback in Australia. And vaccination is only part of the story.
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