By Renaud Foucart, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Management School, Lancaster University
A year ago, Google faced the prospect of being dismantled. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) and a new court judgment has helped it avoid this fate. Part of the reason is that AI poses a grave threat to Google’s advertising revenues.
“Google will not be required to divest Chrome; nor will the court include a contingent divestiture of the Android operating system in the final judgment,” according to the decision.
Google must share…
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By Rachel Rosen, Professor of Sociology, Social Research Institute, UCL
Eve Dickson, Senior Research Fellow, Social Research Institute, UCL
Over six years, researchers have worked closely with 25 single-mother families living in the shadow of this policy - which even affects British citizens.
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By Catherine Norton, Associate Professor Sport & Exercise Nutrition, University of Limerick
The celebrity chef’s call to eat more fruit and veg might sound extreme, but science shows that the benefits don’t stop at five.
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By Klaus Dodds, Professor of Geopolitics, Royal Holloway University of London
Irfaan Ali, the leader of the People’s Progressive party (PPP), says he has secured a second term as Guyana’s president. The official results from the election on September 1 are yet to be published, but Ali claims his party has won by a “remarkable margin”.
Vote tallies published by Guyana’s…
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By Alison Smith, Lecturer in European Film Studies, University of Liverpool
The Courageous opens with dense greenery, as sunlit and idyllic as it is discouragingly impenetrable. Then, with barely the rising sound of an engine to warn us, we cut back to urban humanity: a hand slams a glove compartment shut, with the tense “merde” of a woman on edge. And so we meet the protagonists of the film: Julia, or Jule, at the wheel of the car, and her three children giggling on the back seat because mum just said a naughty word.
Another cut, this time behind Jule’s head, reveals the breathtaking mountain scenery of the Swiss Valais. In just over a minute we…
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By Steve Westlake, Lecturer, Environmental Psychology, University of Bath
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has described her plan to “maximise extraction” of the UK’s oil and gas from the North Sea as a “common sense” energy policy.
Politicians are using language like this increasingly often – calling themselves “pragmatic” on climate change and invoking “common sense”. It sounds reasonable, reassuring, and grownup – the opposite of “hysterical” campaigners or “unrealistic” targets.
But new…
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By Millie Horton-Insch, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, History of Art Department, Trinity College Dublin
Britain appears to be a nation on the verge of Norman-conquest mania. In July, the prime minister and the French president announced that the Bayeux tapestry – the epic 11th-century embroidery that depicts the 1066 conquest of England – would be loaned to the British Museum in 2026-27.
This makes new BBC drama series, King…
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By Christopher Burden, PhD Candidate in Comparative European Populisms, Aston University
Flashing lights, YouTube ads and platinum ticket packages are all a far cry from the policy focused summits held by mainstream parties.
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By Alexander Sergeant, Lecturer in Digital Media Production, University of Westminster
Long Story Short is the latest animated series from Raphael Bob-Waksberg, the talented showrunner who is best known for his early Netflix hit BoJack Horseman. As fans of his previous work will know, Bob-Waksberg’s sensibility seems to come through an eclectic mix of absurdist humour and raw, emotional realism.
BoJack started life as a madcap stoner comedy about…
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By Richard Meade, Adjunct Associate Professor, Centre for Applied Energy Economics and Policy Research, Griffith University
Competition is seen as a panacea in electricity markets: if only we had more, prices would be lower, and investment and supply security would be higher.
Politicians love this story because it offers respite when electricity prices rise. Just unleash regulators and competition authorities to “fix” competition barriers – problem solved (for now).
Encouraging retail competition becomes a priority. Consumers are slow to change retailers,…
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