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How to disagree without making enemies in the age of the pandemic – tips from a psychologist
Jacob Lund/Shutterstock Have you ever been mocked or abused for your views on COVID? If so, you’re not alone. Anyone wishing to engage in an open dialogue surrounding the pandemic can often encounter a hostile climate, especially online. You can listen to more articles from The Conversation, narrated by Noa,Continue Reading
Liverpool fans pelted Guardiola with £2.50 and chewing gum during Man City win
LIVERPOOL fans pelted Pep Guardiola with three coins worth a combined total of £2.50 during Sunday’s fiery clash at Anfield. The cash was picked up by stewards and handed to the fourth official during the second half of Liverpool’s 1-0 win. 2 Guardiola revealed after the game that no objectsContinue Reading
Why food labels showing the exercise needed to burn off calories won’t work for everyone
Knowing how much exercise it takes to burn the calories in certain foods may be easier for consumers to understand. Prostock-studio/ Shutterstock In an effort to tackle the increasing prevalence of obesity, the UK government has introduced a number of public health strategies over the years, including changes to howContinue Reading
Animal friendships are surprisingly like our own
slowmotiongli/Shutterstock When you think of friendship, what comes to mind? Is it a phone conversation that lasts late into the night? Watching a movie and sharing a pizza? Enjoying some laughs over a beer? Friendship is a central part of the human experience. Our stories, our songs and our conversationsContinue Reading
Ukraine war: a desperate Russia defaults to attacking civilians
If you wanted an indication of how badly Russia’s war is going and how much pressure Vladimir Putin is under, then the missile attacks on Kyiv and Ukraine’s major cities over the last day or two are as good as any. These attacks have no military value; they won’t stallContinue Reading
The UK’s Homes for Ukraine scheme is failing both refugees and their hosts – here’s why
The UK government’s Homes for Ukraine refugee hosting scheme has seen more than 180,000 Ukrainians granted visas so far. With more than 7 million Ukrainians scattered across Europe, this has, of course, been the right thing to do. But after six months of the scheme the challenges that hosting refugeesContinue Reading
Why many Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language
President Putin at an annual ceremony marking the Kyivian Rus. Sodel Vladyslav/Shutterstock The issue of the Ukrainian language and who speaks it has become highly politicised during the Russian invasion. Vladimir Putin has even used it as a cover to annex some occupied areas of Ukraine with large numbers ofContinue Reading
Somewhere Boy on Channel 4 review: it will knock your socks clean off
Review at a glance I t’s safe to assume that if you’ve ever known, or been, an 18 year-old boy, the last word you’d use to describe one is innocent. Yet that’s what we find in Danny (played hauntingly by Lewis Gribben), the protagonist in Somewhere Boy, a new ChannelContinue Reading
Ukraine war: why the world can’t afford to let Russia get away with its land grab – lessons from history
Much of the international community has condemned Russia’s annexation of four provinces of Ukraine as illegal. Joe Biden accused Vladmir Putin of a “fraudulent attempt” to claim Ukrainian territory and said the move was “trampling on the United Nations charter, and showing its contempt for peaceful nations everywhere”. The UK’sContinue Reading
Italy’s election is a case study in a new phase for the radical right
Giorgia Meloni, the leader of the populist radical right party Brothers of Italy (Fratelli d’Italia), may have emerged as the victor in Italy’s recent elections, but she did so at the head of a delicately balanced coalition of parties – one that included Matteo Salvini, the man once spoken ofContinue Reading