By Rebecca Scott, Senior Lecturer in Marketing and Strategy, Cardiff University
The final season of The Bear begins with a rupture. A torrential storm floods the restaurant. Money is short. Deliveries are slashed. The building itself is under threat. The brigade are trying to hold the restaurant together while pursuing a Michelin star.
Throughout its run, The Bear has been fascinated by the painful romance of self-sacrifice: the idea that suffering,…
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By Christopher Newman, Professor of Space Law and Policy, Northumbria University, Newcastle
On June 5, 2026, Nasa ordered five astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) to shelter in a docked spacecraft and prepare to abandon ship. The reason was a longstanding, but worsening, air leak in the Russian part of the station.
An hour and a half later, the alert was lifted, allowing the crew to resume their work. But the episode reminds us that humanity’s most expensive science experiment – and a remarkable symbol of international cooperation – is showing its age.…
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By Danny Bradlow, Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria
Most states know that without widely understood and accepted international laws and principles it would be harder to resolve their disagreements peacefully.
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By Mike Dove, Director and Professor of Public History, Western University, Canada, Western University
There’s a historical relationship between CBC and Canada’s game, and there are opportunities ahead despite the end of ‘Hockey Night in Canada.’
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By Richard Whitman, Member of the Conflict Analysis Research Centre, University of Kent; Royal United Services Institute
Stefan Wolff, Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
The G7 summit at Evian from June 15 to 17 is most revealing not for what was agreed, but for what was exposed about the state of play among Europeans, and their relationship with the US. For all the choreography and displays of unity, the summit was, in large part, theatre. It was an attempt to paper over what is becoming increasingly obvious: many of the most critical international issues are now decided without the EU. Brussels is now, at best, an informed bystander.
This was obvious when the US president, Donald Trump, signed…
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By Amnesty International
By Boram Jang, East Asia Researcher at Amnesty International In a Seoul courtroom in March this year, a prosecutor read out charges against Jeon Seung-il, a former art student, from an indictment first written in 1989. The language had not changed, nor had the charges. Thirty-seven years later, only the young defendant had grown old. In 1989, […] The post The political painting that is still on trial in South Korea: How the unending Korean War became a permanent excuse to criminalize expression appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Jo Carter
Japanese LGBTQ+ communities are taking to the streets to push for equal marriage rights with the slogan: "May love prevail in the Supreme Court."
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By Ricardo J. Soares Magalhaes, Professor, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland
The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in seabirds in two Australian states.
But don’t be fooled by the name: this virus also rapidly infects other animals. It has caused havoc in poultry farms and backyard chicken flocks in the northern hemisphere. And it can also infect, and
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By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The NDIS minister joined the podcast to discuss the government’s reforms – and what the changes mean for 160,000 Australians .
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By Mark Quigley, Associate Professor of Earthquake Science, The University of Melbourne
On Wednesday evening just after 6pm local time, two earthquakes violently shook northern Venezuela.
The first one struck near San Felipe, the capital of the state of Yaracuy. Just 39 seconds later, another quake struck near the town of Yumare, within 5 to 10km from the first one.
Powerful ground shaking was felt across the region, including in Venezuela’s capital Caracas about 150km east of the earthquake epicentres. Buildings
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