By Flora Thomas
Criticism around the prime minister’s posturing, which academic Richard Drayton called “defiantly, even rudely, anti-Caricom,” started in September, when the U.S. began to assert its military presence in the region.
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By Sulette Ferreira, Transnational Family Specialist and Researcher, University of Johannesburg
More than one million South Africans, about 1.6% of the country’s population of 63 million, currently live overseas. Emigration is never a solitary event or a purely economic decision. When one person leaves, an entire network of relationships is reshaped. This means that parents, grandparents, siblings and friends are left behind, making it challenging to maintain close bonds across continents.
Despite vast geographical distances and the challenges of differing time zones, the enduring parent–child…
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By Cecilia Maundu
Across Africa, Reporters Without Borders has documented sustained online harassment and surveillance targeting women journalists in West Africa, noting that digital abuse has become an emerging barrier to press freedom.
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By Fatme Abdallah, PhD Candidate, English and Writing Studies, Western University
‘You Will Not Kill Our Imagination: A Memoir of Palestine and Writing in Dark Times,’ sees author Saeed Teebi examine the effects of the genocide on Palestinian art and imagination.
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By Samuel Lloyd, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Victoria
Katya Rhodes, Assistant Professor, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada’s climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province and to support the construction of a new pipeline from Alberta to northern British Columbia.
The government also cancelled the federal carbon tax this year, while ending funding for home…
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By Jessica Mary Bradley, Senior Lecturer in Literacies and Language, University of Sheffield
Women’s experiences of pain – and how pain is felt, understood and lived through the body – sit at the heart of the exhibition.
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By Subir Sarkar, Emeritus professor, University of Oxford
The shape of the universe is not something we often think about. But my colleagues and I have published a new study suggests it could be asymmetric or lopsided, meaning not the same in every direction.
Should we care about this? Well, today’s “standard cosmological model” – which describes the dynamics and structure of the entire cosmos – rests squarely on the assumption that it is isotropic (looks the same in all directions), and homogeneous when averaged on large scales.
But several so-called…
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By Tom Pegram, Associate Professor in Global Governance and Deputy Director of UCL Global Governance Institute, UCL
Simon Dalby, Professor Emeritus of Geography and Environmental Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University
Global debate about how to navigate the climate crisis often centres on high-level pledges and whether national targets are being met. Yet focusing on these technical outcomes obscures a deeper problem that keeps climate action falling short.
This problem is ecological myopia: treating climate change as one issue among many rather than as a sign of wider Earth system disruption. It narrows how we understand risk and allows politics, business and daily life to proceed as if planetary stability could still…
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By Tim Luckhurst, Principal of South College, Durham University
Eighty years ago, Britain celebrated its first peacetime Christmas since 1938. It was a time of hope indeed, but a look through newspaper archives reveals a complex picture. Christmas 1945 was an austerity Christmas. One in which grief and suffering, remembrance and loneliness mingled with reunions, church attendance and muted celebration.
It was the first Christmas under the Labour government elected in 1945, though Prime Minister Clement Attlee did not address the nation.…
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By Haian Dukhan, Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Teesside University
Rahaf Aldoughli, Lecturer in Middle Eastern Politics, Lancaster University
The attack in Palmyra reveals deep vulnerabilities in Syria’s security architecture, highlighting the challenges of reforming a fragmented state after conflict.
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