The Conversation

By Peter Bloom, Facebook’s rebranding as Meta has been seen by many as the company’s latest attempt at corporate crisis control. The social media giant has been publicly ...

By Rebecca Dobson Phillips, A furious backlash in relation to the case of Conservative MP and former government minister Owen Paterson has prompted the UK government to U-turn on plans ...

By Davide Bruno, The potential long-term neurological effects of concussions and other knocks to the head in professional sport have attracted significant attention and research interest over recent years. Confirmation ...

By Tom Pugh Humanity injects an almost incomprehensible 42 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) into the atmosphere every year. The majority of this comes from burning fossil fuels, but a ...

By Richard Blakemore, A dispute between Britain and France about fishing territories has escalated rapidly. French authorities detained a British trawler on Thursday, October 28, and Britain promptly summoned the French ...

Is it a form of masochism? By Simon McCarthy-Jones Last month, more than 100 million people watched the gory Netflix show, Squid Game. Whether or not screen violence is bad for ...

By Eva Lloyd, Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this ...