By Sam Edwards, Reader in Modern Political History, Loughborough University
As King Charles concludes his transatlantic travels with a visit to Bermuda, a British Overseas Territory, he can take pride in a job well done. His four-day state visit to the US – which concluded with a wreath-laying at Arlington National Cemetery and a block party in Virginia – appears to have been a success.
Amid a period of heightened tension between President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Keir Starmer, the king’s carefully calibrated speech to a joint session of Congress has secured…
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By Amnesty International
I was relieved when we crossed the makeshift bridge at Qasmiye. It was hastily constructed after Israeli air strikes destroyed it, but easy to drive on. It also meant I was approaching home. Bridges over the Litani River, connecting southern Lebanon to rest of the country, had been blown up one after the other in […] The post ‘I said a prayer for the house’s protection; I asked it to stay, to wait for our return’: Notes from a trip to southern Lebanon appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Peter Coppola, Visiting Researcher, Cambridge Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
Emmanuel A Stamatakis, Lead, Cognition and Consciousness Imaging Group, Division of Anaesthesia, University of Cambridge
There is a deeper side to the brain which weaves your memories, goals, beliefs and emotions into a continuous sense of self.
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By Matt Jacobsen, Senior Lecturer in Film History in the School of Society and Environment, Queen Mary University of London
We are used to seeing the excellent Adam Scott (Severance, Parks and Recreation) in likeable nice guy roles. In Hokum, however, he plays a curmudgeonly and prickly bestselling novelist called Ohm Bauman. Deliberating over the ending to his series of popular novels, Bauman has decided to take a trip to the rural Irish inn where his parents stayed on their honeymoon, to scatter their ashes.
The remote Bilberry Woods Hotel in the off-season is a fantastically eerie horror location. Irish writer and director Damian…
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By Ahmed Elbediwy, Senior Lecturer in Cancer Biology & Clinical Biochemistry, Kingston University
Nadine Wehida, Senior Lecturer in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Kingston University
Understanding why people born blind never develop schizophrenia could transform how we think about and treat one of medicine’s most baffling conditions.
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By Samson Maekele Tsegay, Research Fellow, School of Education, Anglia Ruskin University
Zeraslasie Shiker, PhD Candidate in Geography, University of Leeds
Governments can spread their ideas and principles through the processes and organisations they use to maintain power. This includes education.
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By Kate Travers, Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow, Liberal Arts, University of Warwick
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is the sequel to a film that launched a thousand memes.
For the film’s New York premiere in April 2026, fashion designer Evan Hirsh decided to commemorate one of the original 2006 film’s most celebrated scenes. He embroidered Meryl Streep’s infamous monologue on the fictional fashion history of the colour cerulean into the bright blue train of his coat.
In the
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By Mehri Khosravi, Energy and Carbon Senior Research Fellow, University of East London
Planning summer holidays in Europe is beginning to involve more focus on avoiding high temperatures.
Destinations including the Greek islands and southern Italy have traditionally relied on warm, stable summers to attract tourists. But they have faced extreme temperatures causing mass evacuations, wildfires and putting lives in danger in recent summers.
Even without those conditions, high temperatures are changing the…
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By Carlo Pietrobelli, Professor of Economics, UNESCO Chair, United Nations University
Michele Delera, Affiliated Researcher, UNU-MERIT, United Nations University
Nicolò Geri, PhD Candidate, Economics, Sapienza University of Rome
The world economy is at a crossroads. International trade is slowing, economic uncertainty is rising, and trade between the US and China – the world’s two largest economies – risks pulling apart. And it is not just trade: the two countries also invest less in each other than they did just a few years ago.
What is driving this reconfiguration of trade? For some large economies, including the US under President Donald Trump, a desire for greater…
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By Geoff Childs, Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, Washington University in St. Louis
Imagine a place where every home has paraphernalia for distilling spirits, where there is a toast for nearly any occasion, and where your taxes – paid in grain, not cash – are deposited straight into a communal still.
Welcome to Nubri.
A valley in northern Nepal, Nubri is home to roughly 3,000 Tibetan Buddhist highlanders. Over the course of three decades, I have spent a lot of time in Nubri studying the interplay of demographic trends and social change. Often that has been in the company…
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