Wednesday, June 25, 2025
When Sila, a young woman from Idlib in Syria, was three years-old, she woke up to missiles falling around her, forcing her and her family to flee their home.
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Wednesday, June 25, 2025
The UN Secretary-General has warned that the world today is failing to protect civilians from mass atrocity crimes, calling for a renewed global commitment to the Responsibility to Protect – a principle adopted two decades ago that remains, in his words, “a moral imperative” and “an unfulfilled promise.”
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By Geraint Harvey, DANCAP Private Equity Chair in Human Organization, Western University
The Competition Bureau frames competition as the solution to the many challenges facing the airline industry, but this overlooks the limitations of relying on increased competition alone.
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By Daniel Conway, Reader in Politics and International Studies, University of Westminster
The history behind Donald Trump’s recent accusations that the South African government is engaged in genocide against white Afrikaner farmers.
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By Natasha Lindstaedt, Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex
During Donald Trump’s first term, he made clear that he wanted his foreign policy to be as unpredictable as possible, stating: “I don’t want them to know what I’m thinking.”
With the US’s recent attack on Iran, Trump certainly kept everyone in suspense. While US enemies may not have known what Trump was thinking, the problem was neither did US allies nor US…
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By Simona Grasso, Assistant Professor & Ad Astra Fellow in Food Science and Nutrition, University College Dublin
Whether customers are pleased to hear it or not, firms are selling “upcycled” food to tackle food waste internationally.
Food with ingredients that were saved from the waste heap via verifiable supply chains is said to be “upcycled”. The term originated in the US,…
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By Caleb H. Wheeler, Senior Lecturer in Law, Cardiff University
The UN Security Council veto makes it virtually impossible to uphold its own charter when it comes to acts of aggression such as the bombing of Iran.
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By Craig Beall, Senior Lecturer in Experimental Diabetes, University of Exeter
The cure for diabetes is a life free from daily insulin injections. Based on that criterion, ten out of 12 people (83%) in a new clinical trial were cured of their diabetes one year after receiving an advanced stem cell therapy.
This study used laboratory-grown pancreatic islet cells. They were infused into the liver, where they took up residence. Within a year, most participants no longer required insulin injections.
One of the most striking benefits was the rapid prevention of dangerously…
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By Blane Savage, Lecturer in MA Creative Media Practice and BA(Hons) Graphic Art & Moving Image, University of the West of Scotland
Artist, writer, playwright, illustrator – and the man who made the Oscar-winning film Poor Things possible – Alasdair Gray was one of Scotland’s great creative polymaths and eccentrics, now celebrated every year on “Gray Day” (February 25). A new…
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By Maggie Inchley, Reader in Contemporary Theatre and Performance, Queen Mary University of London
Holding the carnival in Hyde Park could alter the way that the carnival is enjoyed in ways that would be fundamental to the community it comes from.
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