Train journeys have been embraced as climate-friendly travel.
Michael715/Shutterstock
Swedish views on holidays are shifting towards reducing air travel, media analysis shows.
Maxal Tamor/Shutterstock (with elements supplied by Nasa)
What does the new generation of offensive missiles mean for global security?
School life and conversations at home both contribute to children’s interest in political issues.
Sipa USA / Alamy Stock Photo
Understanding how early on in childhood political interest is sparked –– and what sparks it –– is crucial to giving more people a voice
Dropping the Leeds branch of HS2 has been seen as a betrayal of the north.
Martin D Brown | Shutterstock
HS2 has been controversial from the outset, not least because experts don’t agree about its benefits. However, canceling the Leeds branch is to the region’s detriment.
SDP leader Olaf Scholz is on course to become the next chancellor.
EPA/Clemens Bilan
A coalition deal has been struck and Olaf Scholz will soon take over as chancellor.
At least 27 people have died trying to cross the Channel.
Alamy/PA
Talk of sending people back distracts from the UK’s clear responsibilities towards anyone who attempts the crossing.
In the 1970s, Britain briefly achieved peak equality.
Jean Carlo Emer | Unsplash
Britain’s economic system is built on inequality. Few governments have attempted to rectify this.
EPA-EFE/Jim Lo Scalzo
An already bitterly divided public has reacted badly to the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and Biden’s handling of the COVID crisis.
HBRH / Shutterstock
Indecent exposure happens digitally, too.
With means-tested support, those who are less well-off will end up losing more of their assets to pay for their care.
pikselstock | Shutterstock
The case for introducing a limit on how much people pay for their own care is clear. Figuring out how to calculate that cap, though, is complicated.
Front-runner: Republican Party candidate, José Antonio Kast.
EPA-EFE/Elvis Gonzalez
Three decades after the Chilean people toppled the notorious Pinochet regime, a new standard bearer for the far right is leading the polls.
Waiting for SCOTUS: pro-choice activists outside the US Supreme Court on November 1.
Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA
Plus, a forensic scientist explains how he uncovered the mysteries behind deadly lightning strikes. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
Andy Rain/EPA
The police must challenge and change the damaging culture that for so long has allowed unacceptable behaviour by police officers to go unpunished.
h.
Cuba has handled COVID well, but sanctions and economic uncertainty are causing unrest among some sections of society.
Alamy/ Vuk Valcic
Activists are using a traditional newspaper format to spread misinformation and promote real-world harms.
Shutterstock
Police officers are tasked with summarising accounts of violent incidents. And the language they use is extremely important.
Dutch defence minister, Ank Bijleveld, and air force colonel Peter Tankink briefing journalists about a raid on an car factory in Hawija in November 2015 in which more than 70 civilians were killed.
EPA-EFE/Lex van Lieshout
Western militaries all too often try to hide the fact of civilian casualties as they spoil the popular narrative of a “clean” war.
Sopotnicki / Shutterstock
For transnational families, going home is an important cultural and care practice.
David Parker/Alamy Stock Photo
The technical and political issues at play in launching air attacks that may harm civilians.
Alamy/PA
There are important similarities between the current PM’s woes and John Major’s – but a very important difference, too.
Artist’s impression of the viking camp established in 873 at Repton (Derbyshire, England).
Compost Creative
Viking camps across western Europe were carefully planned and organised venues, offering their occupants much more than just a place to safely rest their heads.
One young face of the migrant crisis at the Belarus-Poland border.
Leonid Scheglov / EPA-EFE
Images of individual refugees are rare in media, but are less likely to make viewers dehumanise them.
Artist’s impression of HS2 train.
HS2
For Yorkshire and the north-east of England, being connected to the high-speed rail network was an investment in the future.
Pupils from a German ‘Napola’ at Ballenstedt before a football game with a visiting side from an English public school.
Even after the notorious Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938, some headmasters thought pupil exchanges with Nazi Germany were a good idea.
Stefano Buttafoco / Shutterstock
The beloved sci-fi series has plenty of lessons for our own galaxy.