By Oluwabusayo Wuraola, Lecturer in Law, Anglia Ruskin University
Africa is least responsible for climate change but worst affected. Exploring climate justice within international courts is a step in the right direction.
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By Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
Tetyana Malyarenko, Professor of International Security, Jean Monnet Professor of European Security, National University Odesa Law Academy
News of the spectacular “spiderweb” mass drone attack on Russian air bases on June 1 will have been uppermost in the minds of delegates who assembled the following day for another round of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul. The attack appears to have been a triumph of Ukrainian intelligence…
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By David J. Galbreath, Professor of War and Technology, University of Bath
In addition to practical measures of investment and expansion, the review lays out the more difficult changes that are needed to respond to security challenges.
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By Edward Sugden, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, King's College London
I am currently writing a biography of Herman Melville’s 1851 novel, Moby-Dick. The most important thing I have learnt is that Moby-Dick is not – as is often presumed – a difficult book. I claim this on the basis of those who read it, how they did so and what they took from it in the first decades of its life.
Moby-Dick has a fearsome reputation: dense, time-consuming, boring and bizarre. This reputation (although not absolutely unfair) was initially fabricated by a subset of “elite” Anglo-American academic readers in the 1920s to separate it from the very people who had previously sustained…
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By Joy Cranham, Lecturer in the Department of Education, University of Bath, University of Bath
Like other quirky TV shows that explore coercively controlling groups, Sirens leans into the “wackiness” of cult life. Set on a remote island, an affluent community exists under extravagant rule of Michaela Kell aka Kiki (Julianne Moore). Her devoted followers – many of whom are employed by her – are committed to ensuring her every whim is met.
This carefully curated existence appears bizarre but flawless, until outsider Devon (Meghann Fahy) arrives looking for her sister Simone (Milly Alcock) and begins to illuminate the control and cult-like behaviour being used as tools of oppression.
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By Enrique Gaztanaga, Professor at Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation (University of Portsmouth), University of Portsmouth
The Big Bang is often described as the explosive birth of the universe — a singular moment when space, time and matter sprang into existence. But what if this was not the beginning at all? What if our universe emerged from something else — something more familiar and radical at the same time?
In a new paper, published in Physical Review D, my colleagues and I propose a striking alternative. Our calculations suggest the Big Bang was not the start of everything, but rather the…
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By Justin Stebbing, Professor of Biomedical Sciences, Anglia Ruskin University
A raft of new studies on cancer and exercise show clear benefits. But a question hangs over the benefits of endurance runners.
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By Jonathan Lord, Lecturer in Human Resource Management and Employment Law, University of Salford
Gordon Fletcher, Associate Dean, Research and Innovation, University of Salford
Saad Baset, Associate Lecturer & Researcher, Salford Business School, University of Salford
It’s late evening and your phone vibrates with some banter from colleagues. You join the conversation and go to bed feeling part of the work community. You then wake up and have a feeling of apprehension as to how the messages will be perceived.
WhatsApp might have started as a casual messaging app for friends, but it has now firmly become embedded in workplace communication – and increasingly in workplace conflicts, too.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Turkmen activist Umidajan Bekchanova. © 2025 Private (Berlin, June 3, 2025) – Turkish authorities should immediately release Umidajan Bekchanova, a Turkmen dissident currently held in a deportation center in Istanbul, Human Rights Watch said today. They should guarantee that Bekchanova is not forcibly returned to Turkmenistan, where she faces a serious risk of persecution and abuse.“Bekchanova’s detention puts her at immediate risk of being sent back to Turkmenistan, where independent activism and dissent are severely punished,” said Rachel Denber, deputy Europe…
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By Fernanda Canofre
Penha evaluates the law almost two decades after its enactment: “Women began to realize it was happening within their families, and it changed the culture.”
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