The overturning of Roe v Wade harms all women and all who can get pregnant around the world by making their body-ownership merely conditional. This undermines their equality with others. Many people are reeling from the recent decision by the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade, so thatContinue Reading
Struggling with what to watch on Netflix tonight? Look no further than the WIRED guide to the best Netflix TV shows in 2022. Updated weekly.Continue Reading
There’s huge potential to generate renewable energy far out in the ocean. But designing turbines that can survive rough waters isn’t exactly a breeze.Continue Reading
Screenshot at Vladimir Putin’s recent evocation of the military successes of 18th-century tsar Peter the Great against Sweden is just the latest example of his distinctive cherry-picking of imperial predecessors, Soviet rulers and religious icons to justify his invasion of Ukraine. It’s all part of the imperial nostalgia that theContinue Reading
On day one of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, February 24, Russian troops seized Snake Island, a tiny rocky outcrop south-west of Odesa which – before the war – played host to a marine research station and a lighthouse. Resistance to the Russian assault became a propaganda coup for Ukrainians.Continue Reading
Against a backdrop of unprecedented turmoil – the first major war in Europe in three decades, the highest inflation rates in decades and a rapidly worsening global food crisis – western leaders have met for two major summits. The G7 met in Germany and Nato leaders gathered in Madrid. TheContinue Reading
China dominates the global supply chain for lithium-ion batteries. Now rival countries are scrambling for more control over “white oil.”Continue Reading
Michael Reynolds / EPA-EFE If the SNP Scottish government and Nicola Sturgeon, first minister, get their way, then in October 2023 voters in Scotland will again be asked “Should Scotland be an independent country?”. This will be the same wording used in September 2014 for the first independence referendum. This,Continue Reading
Hope as a stubborn desire. Onkundi Nyabuto | Unsplash, FAL All too often, hope is equated to a desire for something fleeting: good results on an exam, the win of a favourite team, the wanted present. Quite whether something so insubstantial can actually be called “hope”, though, is a questionContinue Reading
Prospective tenants are being pitted against one another in rent bidding wars, the Dáil has heard. As the Irish Examiner reports, Labour leader Ivana Bacik raised a case of a constituent who had been asked to indicate the top rent they would be willing to pay by a landlord advertisingContinue Reading
