
Flawed notions of objectivity are hampering Canadian newsrooms when it comes to Gaza
The response of Canadas legacy news media to the Israeli governments military action in Gaza for more than 640 days points to a problem within major Canadian news organizations, according to a new Canadian book, When...

From ‘God Emperor Trump’ to ‘St. Luigi,’ memes power the politics of feeling
Why do images of Donald Trump as a galactic emperor or Luigi Mangione as a Catholic saint resonate so deeply with some people? Memes dont just entertain they shape how we identify with power, grievance and justice in the...

Flames to floods: how Europe’s devastating wildfires are fuelling its next climate crisis
In recent years, I have all too often found myself passing over an active wildfire when flying from London to my family home in Greece during the summer months. The sky glows an eerie, apocalyptic red, and the scent of...
Demand for weight loss jabs has surged in the UK. Mohammed_Al_Ali/ Shutterstock Over a fifth of people in the UK have tried to access a weight loss drug in the last year, according to a recent poll. Weight loss jabs such...

Medieval skeletons reveal the lasting damage of childhood malnutrition – new study
Beneath churchyards in London and Lincolnshire lie the chemical echoes of famine, infection and survival preserved in the teeth of those who lived through some of the most catastrophic periods in English history. In a new...

Cricket’s great global divide: elite schools still shape the sport
If you were to walk through the corridors of some of the worlds leading cricket schools, you might hear the crack of leather on willow long before the bell for the end of the day rings. Across the cricketing world, elite...

The African activists who challenged colonial-era slavery in Lagos and the Gold Coast
When historians and the public think about the end of domestic slavery in west Africa, they often imagine colonial governors issuing decrees and missionaries working to end local traffic in enslaved people. Two of my...