By David Bailey, Professor of Business Economics, University of Birmingham
Dieter Franz Kogler, Professor of Economic Geography, University College Dublin
Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy & Regional Development, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regions and Industrial Strategy (CGRIS), University of Bath
British pubs are disappearing at an alarming rate. Last year around eight closed down every week.
And it’s not simply because people are drinking less. The crisis has been caused by the economics of running a pub.
Our latest research suggests that Britain’s pub’s…
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By Charlie Hunt, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boise State University
Election Day turned into a massive rebuke of President Donald Trump: a blue wave not seen in 20 years that was built on transforming the economy and rising prices into a central line of attack.
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By Andrew Gawthorpe, Lecturer in History and International Studies, Leiden University
Donald Trump’s Republican Party has received a stunning rebuke in the US midterm elections. Republicans went into the evening hoping that the polls might be wrong and that they could at least cling on to control of the Senate. But by midnight in Washington, the GOP was staring down what looked like its worst defeat in 50 years.
Republican losses were not just confined to the type of swing districts that parties usually worry about on election night. The scale of the losses was staggering. They lost Senate…
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By Amnesty International
Responding to reports that two Uyghur men recently moved to an Immigration Detention Centre in Thailand face imminent forcible deportation to China, Amnesty International’s Secretary General Agnès Callamard said: “Thai authorities must immediately halt any plans to forcibly return these two Uyghur men to China, where they face a real risk of torture, arbitrary detention […] The post Thailand: Halt imminent forcible return of two Uyghur men to China appeared first on Amnesty International. ]]>
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By Zulker Naeen
Bangladeshi men paid agents for Russian jobs and ended up on the front lines. Families wait for bodies and answers, and they want the recruiters behind it in a courtroom.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Ouahigouya, Burkina Faso, October 25, 2021. © 2021 Nicolas Maeterlinck/Belga Mag/AFP via Getty Images An Al-Qaeda-linked armed group killed at least 27 civilians in two attacks in Burkina Faso’s northern Yatenga province in September 2026.The group’s relentless, unlawful attacks put civilians across Burkina Faso at grave risk. The laws of war prohibit attacking civilians, and those who order, commit, or assist serious violations of the laws of war with criminal intent may be prosecuted for war crimes.Burkina Faso authorities should urgently strengthen protection…
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By John E. Jones III, President, Dickinson College
The Trump administration fought one battle after another in the nation’s courts over its power – or lack thereof – before the 2026 midterm elections.
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By Drew Kurlowski, Associate Professor of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University
Gibbs Knotts, Professor of Political Science, Coastal Carolina University
Oversight has played an important role in American democracy. House Democrats – who are set to be the majority party in that chamber in 2027 – aim to use that power over the Trump administration.
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By Kate Umbers, Associate Professor, Zoology, Western Sydney University
In recent weeks, people across Australia have found fluttering bogong moths (Agrotis infusa) in their homes, cars and even bedrooms. These insects have embarked on their annual migration from breeding grounds across southern Australia to the cool caves of the Australian alps.
For entomologists, or insect scientists, like myself who have studied these moths for years, it’s been a hopeful sight. But it…
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By Christina Chau, Senior Lecturer in Communications, Curtin University
The Western Australian artist, who achieved notoriety and headlines in the 1970s for his anti-war actions and provocative performances, gets his first major survey.
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