By Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The thing to look for is the “fiscal strategy”. For the past quarter-century, it’s provided a surprisingly accurate insight into what each budget is doing.
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By Lizzie Wright, Postgraduate Researcher in the School of English, University of Leeds
Though she appears to be a child, we soon learn Abigail is centuries old, and has developed a habit for ‘playing with [her] food’
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By Peter Gittins, Lecturer in Management, University of Leeds
Deema Refai, Associate Professor in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship, University of Leeds
The UK’s farming landscape has changed dramatically since Brexit. Agricultural policy has been adjusted, and EU subsidies, which funded UK farming for decades, are no more.
Before the split, those subsidies helped British farmers to the tune of nearly £3 billion a year, which for some, made up
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By Marco Fusi, Senior Lecturer in Marine Biology, Newcastle University
Earth’s atmosphere maintains a constant level of oxygen, whether it is a wintry, rainy day or hot summer. Across the ocean, oxygen concentrations vary enormously between different places and over time. Sometimes oxygen levels change within the course of a day, while in some deep parts of the ocean, oxygen concentrations remain constant. In certain places, there’s no oxygen at all but life still thrives.
Marine species respond to ocean deoxygenation (the decrease of oxygen levels in seawater) differently depending on where they live. With seas under…
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By Matthew T. Johnson, Professor of Public Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
Matthew Flinders, Founding Director of the Sir Bernard Crick Centre for the Public Understanding of Politics, University of Sheffield
To say that the Labour party is flying high in the polls is something of an understatement. But despite its consistent lead against the Tories, the opposition finds itself in a rather odd position: on the cusp of power but without a clear transformative vision of what it will actually do in office.
The risk is that Labour will win but also lose the…
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By Jacqueline Boyd, Senior Lecturer in Animal Science, Nottingham Trent University
Dogs come in all shapes and sizes. We’ve moulded some of them to have large protruding eyes, sloping backs and shortened legs through selective breeding.
What is increasingly clear is that some of the extremes of physical shape, size and appearance seen in many dog breeds damage their health. Despite this, many of these breeds, such as French bulldogs, continue…
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By Jan Pospisil, Associate Professor at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations, Coventry University
In the early hours of April 15 2023, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) – a Sudanese paramilitary force – attacked the military airstrip in the town of Merowe and deployed troops across strategic locations in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum.
Within hours, fighting between the RSF and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) had begun. And by the afternoon, it was nearly impossible for civilians to flee Khartoum. It would take only a few days for the war to spread to other parts of the…
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By Andrew Lee, Professor of Public Health, University of Sheffield
MPs have recently voted to ban anyone in England born after 2009 from buying cigarettes, as part of the government’s plan to achieve a smoke-free generation.
Smoking is the single most important preventable cause of ill health and death globally. In England alone, around 64,000 people in England die each year from a smoking-related…
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By Laura Link, Associate Professor of Teaching and Leadership, University of North Dakota
Not all teachers comply when asked to adjust student grades. An education scholar takes a look at what happens when they don’t.
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By Nathaniel Johnson, Assistant Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, University of North Dakota
Hasan Khatib, Associate Chair and Professor of Genetics and Epigenetics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Thomas D. Crenshaw, Professor of Animal and Dairy Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Studies show a parent’s poor diet could affect the genes of generations to come – and set up children and grandchildren for obesity and cardiovascular issues.
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