Learning to read starts earlier than you might think: five tips from an expert
By Karen Boardman,
Learning to read does not begin when a child puzzles over the words in a book for the first time.
In the early weeks of their lives ...
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Is the Belarus migrant crisis a ‘new type of war’?
By Sascha-Dominik (Dov) Bachmann
For months, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has been accused of using illegal migrants as a tool to punish the European Union for imposing sanctions on his ...
Austria’s lockdown for the unvaccinated: what does human rights law say?
By Alan Greene,
As winter sets in across Europe, COVID-19 cases are beginning to rise, despite the vast roll-out of mass vaccination programmes earlier this year. Austria’s government has ...
Why Covid passes are not discriminatory (in the way you think they are)
By Alberto Giubilini,
UK health secretary Sajid Javid’s plans for vaccination requirements for frontline NHS workers has reignited the political and ethical debate over COVID passes.
The requirement constitutes ...
Six popular beliefs about colds: experts explain the facts
Duane Mellor, and James Brown,
As we return to pre-lockdown levels of social mixing, colds are starting to become all too common. A TikTok video has gone viral involving putting ...
Metaverse: how Facebook rebrand reflects a dangerous trend in growing power of tech monopolies
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 ...
Owen Paterson saga sees government integrity called into question
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 ...
Heading the ball is linked to cognitive impairment in retired professional footballers
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 ...
Why tackling deforestation is so important for slowing climate change
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 ...
Brexit fish wars: history explains why France and the UK get so angry about access to the seas
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 ...
From Tarantino to Squid Game: why do so many people enjoy violence?
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 ...
Why the UK childcare system is at breaking point
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 ...