By Tim Luckhurst, Principal of South College, Durham University
President Trump’s one-to-one summit with Vladimir Putin risks repeating an error that paved the way to the second world war
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By Neil Saunders, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, City St George's, University of London
In 2025, more young people than ever have opened their A-level results to find out how they did in their maths exam. Once again, maths has been the most popular A-level subject, with 112,138 entries in 2025.
This is up by more than 4% compared with 2024. Entries in further maths, an A-level that expands on the maths curriculum, have also…
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By Michelle Moyd, Associate Professor, Department of History, Michigan State University
Tanzania has long enjoyed a reputation as a peaceful country. In contrast to most of its neighbours, this east African nation of 67 million people has largely avoided large-scale violence within its borders.
That didn’t seem likely in the early years after independence from Britain in December 1961. A little over two years into independence – in January 1964 – the founding president, Julius Nyerere, faced two political crises. The first started on 12 January 1964 in the form of the
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By Salim Washington, Professor of Global Jazz Studies and Music, Herb Alpert School of Music, University of California, Los Angeles
One of the most influential artists in South Africa’s rich history of jazz is Kippie Moeketsi. He was born on 27 July 2025 and passed away at only 57.
Like Moeketsi, Salim Washington plays the saxophone and composes jazz. As a professor of global jazz studies, he also teaches students about Moeketsi’s work and researches…
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By Tinashe Mushakavanhu, Assistant Professor, Harvard University
Zanzibar has long been an island of arrivals for traders, sailors, slaves and, more recently, waves of tourists. I arrived as a wedding guest and a reader of the Zanzibar born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, in search of the literary and emotional…
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By Garhe Osiebe, Research Fellow, Rhodes University
Fela Kuti’s legacy plays out in music, in politics and even in food, with Nigerian restaurants paying homage to him on their menus.
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By Clare Fox-Ruhs, Part-Time Assistant Professor, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute
There are various social and labour rights for irregular migrants in the different EU member states and the UK. But the costs of enjoying these rights can be daunting.
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Thursday, August 14, 2025
Top UN human rights investigators said on Thursday that war crimes may have been committed in predominantly Alawite areas of Syria in a wave of deadly violence earlier this year.
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
One observer describes next week’s economic roundtable this way: the treasurer “has opened a can of worms – and everybody has got a worm”.
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By Adam Taylor, Professor of Anatomy, Lancaster University
Botulism is a rare and sometimes serious illness that can cause symptoms ranging from fatigue, headaches and dizziness to difficulty breathing.
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