By Amnesty International
Reacting to news that Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office has petitioned the Supreme Court to designate the Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) founded by the late prisoner of conscience Aleksei Navalny a “terrorist organization,” Marie Struthers, Amnesty International’s Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, said: “The Kremlin has been relentless in its persecution of Russian opposition leader […] The post Russia: Move to label Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation a “terrorist organization” puts thousands in danger appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By James Deaville, Professor of Music, Carleton University
A contender for this year’s best horror picture, ‘Weapons,’ is part of film traditions that conjure terror out of stillness, partly through jump scares.
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By Daniel O'Brien, Lecturer, Department of Literature Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex
Easily the most poignant film I have seen this year, Dylan Southern’s The Thing With Feathers is adapted from Max Porter’s 2015 novella Grief Is The Thing With Feathers. Using both subtle drama and horror spectacle, it cuts deeply into the tenderness of humanity and domesticity, reminding us that the most important things in life (so often taken for granted) are fragile shells that can be cruelly shattered at any moment.
The film follows a nameless father, referred to only as Dad (Benedict Cumberbatch), as he…
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By Monica Germanà, Reader in Gothic and Contemporary Studies, University of Westminster
Del Toro’s film presents the Arctic of the 1800s as a barren wasteland, which overlooks the existence of Indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia.
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By Vince Pescod, Senior lecturer, The University of Law
The Trump administration is coming under fire for politicising the Department of Justice (DoJ) and undermining the US government’s enshrined separation of powers, which relies on an independent system of justice. This is a central principle of the US constitution, without which a president could govern virtually unchecked.
Critics point to recent indictments of people perceived to be Donald Trump’s political enemies, alleging the DoJ has acted on instructions or percived pressure from the president.
Former FBI director James Comey was…
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By Robert Dover, Professor of Intelligence and National Security & Dean of Faculty, University of Hull
Honey traps are laid, cyber attacks are enacted and it seems MI5 have to rely upon Slough House to bail them out once again.
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By Rosalie Hayes, Research Assistant, Centre for Public Health & Policy, Queen Mary University of London
Sara Paparini, Senior Lecturer in Public Health and Equity, Queen Mary University of London
Sophie Strachan, Honorary Research Associate,, Queen Mary University of London
The first ever injectable drug that can prevent HIV has been approved for use in England and Wales.
The drug, cabotegravir, would benefit an estimated 1,000 people at risk of HIV in England and Wales. It offers a long-acting alternative to other existing preventive HIV drugs, which are only available as pills and usually must be taken on a daily basis.
The jab belongs to a group of drugs called antiretrovirals,…
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By Tom F. Wright, Reader in Rhetoric, University of Sussex
Every few decades, Americans rediscover that their republic was built on a rejection – the rejection of being ruled by a monarch. Now, in one of the largest protest movements in many years, the phrase “No kings” is everywhere: on placards, online memes, and in chants aimed at a president who seems to want to rule rather than serve.
Yet the words are hardly new. They are the first note in the American political scale, the country’s founding slogan before it even had a flag.
Long before…
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By Lara Warmelink, Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University
The Traitors is a game built on lies and deceit. Contestants live together in a Scottish castle. Those secretly chosen as Traitors are tasked with “murdering” their fellow players while avoiding suspicion. The rest are Faithfuls, trying to banish the Traitors.
Of course, the Traitors must tell lies all the time to avoid getting caught – but many Faithfuls tell lies as well: to throw the traitors off their scent, build alliances or manage how other players think of them.
This means all players “take heat” at the nightly roundtable, when they are accused of being
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By Julien Bousquet, Full Marketing Professor, Department of Economic and Administrative Sciences, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi (UQAC)
Gastronomy is no longer just about what is served on a dish — local cuisine and marketing merge to tell a story to the world.
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