Why was South Africa’s ambassador to the US expelled? A view of the Ebrahim Rasool affair: In a rare move, the Trump administration expelled Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, in mid-March 2025. In a post on X, US secretary of state Marco Rubio accused Rasool of hating the US and President Donald Trump, …
Let juries judge disruptive protesters like Just Stop Oil on their integrity – expert view: The UK Court of Appeal recently ruled on an appeal brought by 16 environmental activists serving prison sentences for planning or participating in a series of disruptive non-violent protests. The cases include the five-year term being served by Roger Hallam, co-founder …
How rightwing beliefs shape your view of the past – while leftwingers look to the future: The division between right and left around the world has rarely felt more polarised. Of course there have always been differences between people on the different ends of the political spectrum, but now it seems they are living in …
Kenya’s stock market has suffered steepest losses in the world: an expert view on why and how to reverse it: Kenya’s stock market recently suffered steep losses, making it the worst performing globally. The weak performance has persisted: the Nairobi Securities Exchange 20-share index stood at about 1420 on 10 November 2023, having fallen from …
AI: how it hands power to machines to transform the way we view the world: cono0430 / Shutterstock There are signs of AI everywhere, it’s behind everything from customer service chatbots to the personalised ads we receive when browsing online. However, we remain largely unaware of the hidden algorithms doing the heavy legwork behind the …
Domicide: a view from Homs in Syria on what the deliberate destruction of homes does to those displaced by conflict – podcast: Homs was once the centre of the Syrian revolution. Today, 12 years on, much of the city remains scarred and deserted after years of siege and heavy bombardment. In this episode of The …
Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have a new defence alliance: an expert view of its chances of success: On 16 September 2023 in Bamako, Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger established the Alliance of Sahel States, a mutual defence pact. The agreement was signed against the backdrop of an ongoing political crisis in Niger following a …
How classic psychology warped our view of human nature as cruel and selfish – but new research is more hopeful: DorSteffen/Shutterstock There are a number of classic experiments and theories that every psychology student learns about, but more recent research has questioned their findings so that psychologists today are reevaluating human nature. One example is …
Children have a skewed view of the natural world – but it doesn’t have to be that way: KlingSup/Shutterstock Children’s books and TV shows are full of animals, but how well do kids really know the natural world? The vast majority of the world’s known animal species – 96.9% – are invertebrates, such as insects, …
First ever view of the Milky Way seen through the lens of neutrino particles: The Milky Way, as seen with neutrino particles. IceCube Collaboration / US National Science Foundation (Lily Le and Shawn Johnson) / ESO (S. Brunier) Data collected by an observatory in Antarctica has produced our first view of the Milky Way galaxy …
Kenya’s starvation cult left over 100 dead – a psychologist’s view on how to support people as they process tragedy: A Kenyan investigator at a mass gravesite in Shakahola in April 2023. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP via Getty Images In early April 2023, Kenyan police discovered a mass grave linked to a Pentecostal church in the coastal …
The Euclid spacecraft will transform how we view the ‘dark universe’: Euclid is set to launch this year on a rocket built by SpaceX. Work performed by ATG under contract for ESA, CC BY-SA The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid satellite completed the first part of its long journey into space on May 1 2023, …
Dutch government to expand euthanasia law to include children aged one to 12 – an ethicist’s view: Ernst Kuipers, the Dutch health minister, recently announced that regulations were being modified to allow doctors to actively end the lives of children aged one to 12 years who were terminally ill and suffering unbearably. Previously, assisted dying …
What’s in store for the UK in 2023? Here’s one economist’s view: HAKINMHAN/Shutterstock Last year was an eventful one for the UK which lost its longest-serving monarch, went through two prime ministers, and faced economic stagnation, financial turmoil, rampant inflation and a cost of living crisis. To kick off 2023, UK prime minister Rishi Sunak …
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Are butter boards bad for you? An expert view on the latest food trend: Butter boards are sort of like a charcuterie board featuring artisanal butters. zarzamora/ Shutterstock In an unexpected twist, butter seems to be back on the menu. After years of being a maligned ingredient that many people shied away from, butter has …
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Will Keir Starmer lead Labour back into government? The view from the party conference in Liverpool: Keir Starmer, the next British prime minister? A cautiously optimistic mood prevails at this year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool. Yet hope is tempered with fear, befitting a party that has contrived to lose eight of the last 11 …