Friday, June 13, 2025
Prisons have become a fragile link in many criminal justice systems, weakened by over-incarceration, overcrowding, poor conditions and chronic neglect – fuelling calls for urgent reform.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image A Canada flag and an Alberta flag in Kananaskis, Alberta, June 2, 2025. © 2025 Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP Photo (Ottawa) – G7 leaders should commit to taking concrete actions to halt Israeli atrocities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory at their upcoming summit, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to G7 leaders.Leaders of the G7 will be gathering in Kananaskis, Alberta from June 15-17, 2025, for the Leaders’ Summit hosted by Canada. The summit takes place in the context of ongoing hostilities and Israel’s unlawful blockade of…
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By David Cook, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Nottingham Trent University
Christopher Pich, Associate Professor in Marketing, University of Nottingham
Before it kicked off, the all new revamped and expanded men’s 2025 Fifa Club World Cup had already attracted controversy.
Some think even more football matches at the end of a long season pose a risk…
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By Yuxiang Lin, Doctoral Researcher, Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham
Polls show a lack of enthusiasm for the shared currency in a country that has mixed results from EU membership.
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By John Kiely, Department of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, University of Limerick
Rest, rehab and patience are cornerstones of injury recovery. But should quitting alcohol be a part of any recovery plan? This is what England cricket captain Ben Stokes has done – saying he’s given up alcohol in a bid to quickly recover from a serious hamstring injury.
While this may seem extreme, emerging research shows that even small amounts of alcohol can interrupt recovery and delay healing in five key ways:
1. Disrupting immune…
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By David Hone, Senior Lecturer in Zoology, Queen Mary University of London
Liz Martin, Technical Specialist in Earth Sciences , University of Bristol
Michael Habib, Adjunct Professor, Biology, College of the Canyons
Pterosaurs were an amazing group of flying reptiles that occupied the skies around the same time that dinosaurs roamed on land. Appearing in the fossil record around 230 million years ago, pterosaurs survived until 66 million years ago, when an asteroid impact helped wipe them, and many other life forms, out.
The pterosaurs are often the animals in the background, while the dinosaurs occupy the foreground. However, they are worthy of much more recognition than…
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By Camilla Gilmore, Professor of Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University
Lucy Cragg, Professor of Developmental Psychology, University of Nottingham
Natasha Guy, Research Assistant in Mathematical Cognition, Loughborough University
What’s seven times nine? Quick, you’ve got six seconds to answer.
This June, over 600,000 children in England in year four, aged eight and nine, will be expected to answer questions like this. They will be sitting the multiplication tables check (MTC), a statutory assessment of their multiplication fact recall.
The MTC was introduced…
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By Jennifer Fleetwood, Senior Lecturer, City St George's, University of London
Thousands of British nationals are charged with drug smuggling abroad every year. The UK charity Prisoners Abroad reports a rise in the number of British people imprisoned abroad for drug offences in 2024-25, compared to the previous year, especially women under 34.
Two recent examples making headlines…
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By Simon Cork, Senior Lecturer in Physiology, Anglia Ruskin University
Women who use an oral contraceptive might want to consider using a back-up method after starting a weight loss drug.
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By Lucy Berthoud, Professor of Space Systems Engineering, University of Bristol
I have been researching the possibility of living on Mars for several years. But it took an invitation to give a talk about space at HMP Erlestoke in England – a category C men’s prison – to make me realise that there are a surprising number of similarities between the challenges that would be faced by would-be Martians and daily life in jail.
The talk was part of a literary festival called “Penned Up”. As I discussed the parallels between Mars and prison with those incarcerated at HMP Erlestoke, the men agreed with me that, despite…
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