By Danielle Friedman, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Quinnipiac University
Seeking a second opinion is a patient’s right. Knowing how empowering another perspective can be may make it less awkward to ask for one.
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By Rebekah Pickering Wood, Senior Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies, Nottingham Trent University
Textiles shape British life in ways we often overlook – the clothes we wear, the items we inherit, and the patterns that quietly signal where we come from. Yet behind these familiar objects lies a rich history of labour, skill and innovation.
From the knitting frames of industrial England to the woollen mills of Wales, the patterned traditions of Scotland…
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By Ambra Suriano, Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow, Lancaster University
The shift from secular to religious Zionism inspired a movement that plans to restore the dream of a ‘Greater Israel’.
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By Lucy Welsh, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Sussex
Proposals to cut the use of jury trials for most offences would be one of the most significant legal reforms in UK history. The government’s plans have prompted much debate in legal circles and beyond – mainly around whether they go against the UK’s democratic principles.
The government’s hope is that reducing jury trials will address the growing backlog of cases in the Crown Court. But the proposals…
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By Caroline Dodd-Reynolds, Professor of Physical Activity, Durham University
Physical activity is not just about gyms, PE or competitive sport. For many young people, safer movement starts with being listened to.
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By Byron Hyde, Researcher in Philosophy of Science and Public Policy, Hokkaido University; Bangor University; University of Bristol
The Enhanced Games promised a revolution. Athletes on supervised drug regimens, unshackled from the anti-doping rules of the Olympics, were going to show us what the human body was truly capable of. The event was transhumanism in practice – a glimpse at humanity’s athletic future.
What it actually delivered was a single world record, broken by a fraction of a second, by the same swimmer who’d already claimed that honour at the pilot event the previous year.
The Enhanced Games introduced potential health…
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By D. Brian Blank, Associate Professor of Finance, Mississippi State University
Brandy Hadley, Associate Professor of Finance and Distinguished Scholar of Applied Investments, Appalachian State University
A key challenge for the Federal Reserve is that higher gas prices are inflationary, but they also reduce households’ spending power and dampen growth.
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By Nicole Goldin, Head of Equitable Development, United Nations University
Daniel Cash, Senior Fellow, Centre for Policy Research (UNU-CPR), United Nations University; Aston University
A recent development in the credit rating space could signal important progress in one of the more intractable challenges in global development finance. The challenge is how countries can manage periods of acute debt stress without being pushed prematurely towards default.
The current system can discourage countries facing acute financial stress from seeking temporary liquidity relief, because doing so may trigger market reactions that worsen borrowing conditions. Delays in seeking support can, in turn, deepen financial instability.
But Fitch Ratings, one of the world’s…
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By Rod Crompton, Visiting Adjunct Professor, African Energy Leadership Centre, Wits Business School, University of the Witwatersrand
Bruce Douglas Young, Senior Lecturer, Africa Energy Leadership Centre, University of the Witwatersrand
The supply of crude oil to the world had been reduced by about 7.5% to 10.1% by March 2026 in what the World Bank described as the largest oil market disruption in history. The fall was a result of the attacks…
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By Anna Rowlands, St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought & Practice, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University
For the last few years, I’ve been seconded to assist the Catholic Church’s unprecedented global grassroots listening initiative. Just as that process drew to a close, I received a surprise request: would I help Pope Leo XIV launch his first social encyclical, focused on what it means to be human in a time of artificial intelligence?
It is difficult to think of a more important…
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