By Kahura Mundia, Lecturer, Medical Law and Ethics, University of Nairobi
At least 4,000 doctors are employed in Kenya’s public healthcare sector. Almost all of them went on strike on 14 March 2024, demanding the implementation of a labour agreement signed with the government in 2017. The agreement promised higher salaries, better working conditions and the recruitment of doctors. The Kenyan government said it didn’t…
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By Murray Leith, Professor of Political Science, University of the West of Scotland
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, has suddenly terminated the Bute House agreement, the pact between the Scottish National Party and the Scottish Greens, which ensured a majority for the Scottish…
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By Melanie Samson, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Johannesburg
Because waste pickers go through trash and leave behind everything without value, they know better than anyone which plastics should be eliminated.
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By Lauren Lassabe Shepherd, Instructor, School of Education, University of New Orleans
Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, conservative activists led a counterattack against campus antiwar and civil rights demonstrators by demanding action from college presidents, the courts and the police.
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By Richard Calland, Associate Professor in Public Law, University of Cape Town
The constitution and the principle of constitutionalism will continue to be politically contested territory. So far it’s held in South Africa.
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By Randa Lindsey Kachef, Lecturer in Geography, King's College London
Some littering is conscious, some is created unintentionally. Tackling the reason it was created could make clean-up tactics more effective.
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By Duane Mellor, Lead for Evidence-Based Medicine and Nutrition, Aston Medical School, Aston University
Several recent TikToks have claimed that freezing bread actually makes it healthier. Some of these mention there’s research which backs up the claims. But is this food tip as good as social media influencers suggest?
The science behind it is actually sound, albeit a little confusing. But the actual health effects are not nearly as significant as they’ve been made out to be.
When bread is cooked, it transforms the moist, bubble-filled dough into a soft fluffy loaf. The heat of the oven,…
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By Francesca Stocco, PhD Researcher, Art Market, Nottingham Trent University
The bright pink fabric swaying gently in the wind stands in stark contrast to the grey tones of the brutalist architectural complex.
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By Mark Bennister, Associate Professor, University of Lincoln
Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
All prime ministerial memoirs are about shaping legacies. “History will be kind to me,” Churchill is alleged to have said before writing his own six-volume history. “For I intend to write it.”
But among these memoir writers sits a sub-genre of leaders who need to do some pretty serious legacy shaping. Think Anthony Eden on Suez, Margaret Thatcher on the poll tax, Tony Blair on Iraq or David Cameron on Brexit.
There are several different…
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By Melanie Griffiths, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
Five months ago, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. The court found the African country was “unsafe” under international law on refugee protection.
The UK government, rather than changing the plan, has just passed a new law to declare that Rwanda is safe. This is not just a farcical legal workaround, it is deeply ironic given the unsafe conditions for asylum seekers in the UK. And,…
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