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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
Time to ‘Outsmart’ those bookies on the all-weather track!
Eesha Meesh, third and fourth respectively in two races over six furlongs on Kempton polytrack last month, under Dylan Hogan, attempts extra distance on Wolverhampton tapeta tonight, ridden by recently-crowned Champion apprentice Marco Ghiani; you can bet Marco Botti’s charge will be a popular choice. On my time-handicap this FarhhContinue Reading
Man Utd vs Liverpool: United to win at 16/1 or Reds at 11/1 (max bet £5)
MANCHESTER UNITED go toe to toe with their arch rivals Liverpool in a must-win game on Sunday. And to celebrate the crunch Premier League tie, 888 Sport are allowing new customers to back Man Utd to win at 16/1 or Liverpool at 11/1 with their massive odds boost. 1 CristianoContinue Reading
COVID: new antibody treatment could offer up to 18 months’ protection against severe disease
Antibodies (light blue) binding to the spike proteins (dark purple) on the outside of the coronavirus. Design_Cells/Shutterstock A new treatment could soon help protect people from developing severe COVID. AstraZeneca has just released results from a phase 3 clinical trial – the final stage of testing before a drug isContinue Reading
The delta variant has a mutation that’s worrying experts: Here’s what we know so far
A laboratory technician uses a pipette device to process samples to test for the novel coronavirus Covid-19, at Biogroup Laboratory’s lab in west London on January 21, 2021. JUSTIN TALLIS | AFP | Getty Images LONDON — A newly-discovered mutation of the delta variant is being investigated in the U.K.Continue Reading
Six popular beliefs about colds: experts explain the facts
Sticking garlic up your nose will not help you recover from a cold. Fizkes/Shutterstock As we return to pre-lockdown levels of social mixing, colds are starting to become all too common. A TikTok video has gone viral involving putting garlic up your nose as a cold cure, just one inContinue Reading
Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer
Glenn Carstens-Peters/Unsplash In the wake of the tragic death of the member of parliament for Southend West, David Amess, fellow MPs have been talking about how to best protect both politicians and the public from abuse and harm. This has included a strong focus on enacting laws designed to haltContinue Reading
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
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
State of Terror by Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny review
E llen Adams is “medium height, trim with good dress sense” and secretary of state to the President she distrusts. A reckoning with the Trump era will be worn heavily in the next 40 pages: “After the past four years of watching the country flail itself almost to death, sheContinue Reading