These historical artefacts are totally faked
Artist Nora Al-Badri is using deepfakes for good – to free historical artefacts from museums and reinvent them for the digital ageContinue Reading
2021-10-24
How do you deradicalise an incel?
Pulling disaffected young men back from the bring is complicated, and it’s making academics question their whole approach to extremismContinue Reading
2021-10-23
Why Squid Game is actually a critique of meritocracy
Squid Game, Netflix’s latest runaway success, has set new records for views and generated a flurry of comment pieces, memes, and moral panic about screen violence. The programme follows 456 competitors through a series of lethal contests. At stake is a cash prize of billions of won, suspended over theContinue Reading
2021-10-22
Tory MPs talk out bill to stop fire and rehire
Today in the House of Commons, Conservative MPs talked out a bill that would have stopped companies using fire and rehire tactics. The Bill, brought be Labour’s Barry Gardiner MP, sought to address the practice used by companies to fire workers and re-employ them on lower pay with poorer conditions.Continue Reading
2021-10-22
Southend-on-Sea: how British towns become cities
Southend-on-Sea is to be accorded the status of city in honour of David Amess. On October 18, 2021, three days after the Conservative MP was murdered in his constituency surgery in Leigh-on-Sea, Boris Johnson announced the Queen had agreed to the grant. Seeing Southend acquire this new label had longContinue Reading
2021-10-22
Government concerned about Covid trajectory ahead of winter – Taoiseach
The Government is concerned about the trajectory of Covid-19 heading into the winter months, the Taoiseach has said. Speaking on the fringes of the EU summit in Brussels on Friday, Micheál Martin said the country is beginning to witness the “seasonal backdrop” to the disease. Many virologists have suggested thatContinue Reading
2021-10-22
Taiwan: what is China’s long-term strategy? Podcast
As military tensions run high once again between China and Taiwan, The Conversation Weekly podcast talks to two experts about China’s longer-term strategy – and what that means for Taiwan. And we hear about North Americans who pretend to have Indigenous identity. In mid-October, the US and Canada each sentContinue Reading
2021-10-21
Climate crisis: how states may be held responsible for impact on children
Over the past three years, children have increasingly used their voice to protest against their governments' inaction PETER FOLEY | EPA-EFE The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has determined that a government can, in theory, be held to account for the impact its country’s carbon emissions haveContinue Reading
2021-10-20
Péter Márki-Zay: Hungarian opposition’s ‘non-political’ candidate may not be enough to beat Orbán
Hungary’s parliamentary elections in spring 2022 will give illiberal Prime Minister Viktor Orbán a chance to continue his Fidesz government for a fourth term. An unlikely opposition candidate could disrupt these plans. Orbán will face Péter Márki-Zay, mayor of the Hungarian county town of Hódmezővásárhely. Márki-Zay’s win in the oppositionContinue Reading
2021-10-20
Sarah Everard, police culture and the ‘masculinised’ workplaces we can all help change
The horrific case of Sarah Everard raises many questions about our society – not least what her killer’s behaviour says about workplace cultures, and the role of organisations in preventing men’s violence against women. Investigations are underway over allegations that the murderer engaged in a range of sexist and abusiveContinue Reading
2021-10-20