The Conversation

By Steve Fletcher United Nations-backed talks for a global treaty to end plastic pollution wrapped up without an agreement in the early hours of Sunday December 1. A new round of ...

By Jean Burgess After Elon Musk bought Twitter (now rebranded X) in 2022, disaffected users began to seek alternatives. Alongside Meta’s Threads and the open source project Mastodon, Bluesky was ...

By MJ (Thinus) Booysen & Joubert Van Eeden In sub-Saharan Africa, high levels of particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution from vehicle tailpipe emissions cause poor health, developmental stunting, and even death. ...

By Gordon Fletcher Elon Musk’s regular posts of strong support for president-elect Donald Trump on his social media platform X and his expected role within the new US administration ...

By Byron Kaye Since Meta  whistleblower Frances Haugen aired internal emails in 2021 showing the tech giant knew of social media’s mental health impacts on teenagers, world leaders have agonised ...

By Flávia Fayet-Moore and Stephen R Robinson You know that feeling you get when you take a breath of fresh air in nature? There may be more to it ...

By Jack Marley Cop29, the 29th annual climate conference in Azerbaijan, came to an end on Sunday, and in its wake have come doubts about the UN process for negotiating ...

By Leah Kardos Kate Bush’s visionary 1985 concept album Hounds of Love was the second she had produced on her own (after The Dreaming in 1982), and the first recorded in ...

By David Gallardo-Pujol, Jordi Renom Pinsach and Laura Viñals Vilà Have you ever gazed out at the sea and felt the world become smaller? Perhaps you have swum in ...

By Adam Taylor The social media platform TikTok has become a cultural phenomenon, influencing the behaviour and taste of its users in almost every area of life. From dance trends ...

By Catherine Gegout The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued arrest warrants for Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, his former defence minister, Yoav Gallant, and Hamas leader, Mohammed Deif. The ...

By Philip Almond Netflix’s upcoming biblical biopic, Mary, has been attacked on social media because the title character and her husband Joseph are being played by Israeli actors. The ...

By Evangeline Mantzioris Matcha has experienced a surge in popularity in recent months, leading to reports of global shortages and price increases. If you haven’t been caught up in ...

By Naomi Braithwaite The Fashion and Textile Museum’s new exhibition, Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London, surveys the glamorous and often outrageous fashion, music and clubbing scene in the ...

By Sam Poyser When bombs tore through two crowded pubs in central Birmingham on the evening of November 21 1974, they claimed the lives of 21 people and injured 220 more. They also led ...

By Laura Minor The latest series of Channel 4’s reality dating show Married at First Sight UK has sparked widespread criticism for normalising harmful behaviour. The charities Women’s Aid ...

By Debra Benita Shaw Samantha Harvey’s Orbital this week won the 2024 Booker prize. What it so skilfully and ambitiously exposes is the human cost of space flight set against ...

Almost all of Donald Trump’s nominees for critical positions within his presidential administration have been non-traditional. Fox News presenter Pete Hegseth was just named as Trump’s possible defence ...

By Alyssa Choat For its recent Spring/Summer 2025 show, fashion brand Diesel filled a runway with mounds of denim offcuts, making a spectacle of its efforts to reduce waste. Haunting ...

By Robert Dover When he claimed victory in the early hours of November 6, Donald Trump said he was a man of his word. A hallmark of his second term as ...

By Zackary Okun Dunivin There’s a certain allure to the notion that some of the world’s brightest stars burn out at the age of 27. The so-called 27 Club has ...

By Rachel Williamson Following the global success of down-under comedies What We Do in the Shadows and Flight of the Conchords, Antipodean humour has quickly become associated with the deadpan ...

By Hind Elhinnawy More than two years have passed since a young woman called Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested in Iran for allegedly not wearing her ...

By Charles Z. Levkoe, Martha Stiegman, Sarah Rotz and Tammara Soma For more than a year, the Israeli state has been engaged in a massive incursion into Gaza following the ...