By Simon Mabon, Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
Donald Trump’s rally at Madison Square Gardens in New York City on Sunday, October 27 was called a “carnival of grievances, misogyny and racism” by the New York Times. The event, which came just over a week before the election, was a hostile and partisan affair. Trump doubled down on his assertion that one of America’s gravest threats is from “the enemy within”.
Trump’s rhetoric is a manifestation of the increasingly…
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By Lisa Shitomi-Jones, Research Assistant & PhD Candidate at the Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics, Cardiff University
Arianna Di Florio, Professor and Clinical Psychiatrist, Cardiff University
New research reveals that perimenopausal women are more than twice as likely to develop bipolar disorder for the first time.
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By Jo Adetunji, Executive Editor – Partnerships
The Conversation UK, Curtis Brown and Faber are pleased to announce our three judges for The Conversation Prize for writers: Miriam Frankel, senior science editor at The Conversation UK, Priya Atwal, historian…
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By Amandine Cornille, Research associate professor, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Faced with the collapse of biodiversity, there is an urgent need to protect the genetic diversity of species. But to preserve fruit trees, seed banks are not enough.
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By Viktoriia Lapa, Lecturer, Institute for European Policymaking, Bocconi University
The European Union needs a plan to support Ukraine to victory – and the beginnings of a plan to re-engage Russia after the war.
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By Javier Erro Garcés, Investigador y profesor colaborador. Biología y Química Agrícola, Universidad de Navarra
The world’s growing population demands ever-increasing crop production. However, the fertilisers required to meet this demand have a range of environmental impacts, from their use of finite raw materials and mining, to unsustainable manufacturing processes and inefficient products that pollute the environment.
For decades, agricultural philosophy has relied on putting an excess of nutrients into the soil. Since many of these nutrients are lost along the way, extra has to be added to meet the demands of the crop. In addition to inflating farmers’ costs, this leaves a considerable environmental…
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By Linda Yueh, Fellow in Economics/Adjunct Professor of Economics, University of Oxford
Jonquil Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Personal Finance, The Open University
Karen Bloor, Professor of Health Economics and Policy, University of York
Phil Tomlinson, Professor of Industrial Strategy, Co-Director Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&IS), University of Bath
Rachel Scarfe, Lecturer in Economics, University of Stirling
Shampa Roy-Mukherjee, Vice Dean and Professor in Economics, University of East London
For the first time in 14 years, it was a Labour chancellor who delivered the UK budget. And for the first time ever, that chancellor was a woman. But Rachel Reeves faces an almighty task: plugging a £40 billion spending gap in the knowledge that pre-election promises not to raise the main taxes are still fresh in people’s memories.
Growth was the buzzword of the election campaign – Reeves now had to lay her cards on the table. So here’s what our panel of experts made of the plans:
More challenges for employers and small businesses
Shampa…
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By John M. Murphy, Professor of Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Americans might have to wait for days, weeks or months to get an accurate determination of the winner of the presidency.
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By Charles Z. Levkoe, Canada Research Chair in Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems, Lakehead University
Martha Stiegman, Associate Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
Sarah Rotz, Assistant Professor, Environmental and Urban Change, York University, Canada
Tammara Soma, Associate Professor at the School of Resource and Environmental Management, Simon Fraser University
The destruction of food systems in Gaza and Canada is part of a larger effort of land dispossession and capitalist accumulation. The fight for food sovereignty is about justice and self-determination.
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By Larisa Yarovaya, Director of the Centre for Digital Finance, Associate Professor in Finance, University of Southampton
Crypto traders are waiting anxiously to see whether it will be the Republican presidential candidate, Donald Trump, or his Democratic rival, Kamala Harris, who will be sitting in the White House come January 2025.
Harris leads Trump by a slender margin in the national polling averages, but some betting markets have Trump as the favourite to win. According to election gambling site Polymarket,…
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