Gas boilers heat around 85% of homes in the UK, but their installation in new homes is to be banned from 2025. While heating produces over a third of the country’s CO₂ emissions, there are only two...
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Turkish Spies Are Abducting Erdogan’s Political Opponents Abroad
Emboldened by a lack of repercussions from NATO and the EU, Turkish President Erdogan’s regime is kidnapping dissidents. On 1 June, Orhan Inandi, a Turkish-Kyrgyz national was declared missing in the...
G7 Tax Deal: If You Think Multinationals Will Be Forced To Pay...
Finance ministers in London from the G7 group of wealthy nations have agreed on a deal that has been described invariably as a landmark that will transform the landscape of global corporate tax...
Nagorno-Karabakh: In The Aftermath Of War, Armenia Faces An...
More than six months have passed since the “second Karabakh war”, as it is now called, came to an abrupt end last year with Armenia all but defeated. The ceasefire hastily signed on November 9 –...
How Right-Wing Populists Use Food To Legitimise Their Extreme...
Getting breakfast done’: Italian strawberries, Hungarian pickles and a pint of English beer are all part of the Right-wing populists’ food fight for voters Few everyday items have the ability...
Group-Think: What It Is And How To Avoid It
Former government adviser Dominic Cummings has made waves by suggesting the UK government’s response to the COVID-19 crisis was “a classic historic example of group-think”. He said the more people...
Depop Sale: Fashion Retailers Must Move Faster On Sustainability...
The news that Depop – Generation Z’s favourite app for selling and buying used clothing – had been sold to Etsy for $1.6bn (£1.1bn) is a warning shot for fashion retailers. For years, traditional...
HIV 40 Years On: Four Action Points To End AIDS As A Health...
On 5 June 1981, a short report of five cases of pneumocystis pneumonia in young homosexual men in Los Angeles marked the discovery of AIDS, the first pandemic of the 20th century caused by a...
How An App To Decrypt Criminal Messages Was Born ‘Over A Few...
Australian and US law enforcement officials on Tuesday announced they’d sprung a trap three years in the making, catching major international crime figures using an encrypted app. More than 200...
Rugby, Concussions And Duty Of Care: Why The Game Is Facing...
There’s growing concern about concussion-related injuries in contact sports like rugby and American football. Several high-profile collisions between participants and a growing body of research about...
Somalia: Toxic Elite Politics And The Need For Cautious External...
The current government’s decision on April 12th to seek a two-year extension has thrown Somalia’s fragile political process into disarray. The president has since called for elections and a return to...
‘Almost Divine Power’: The Lawyers Who Sign Off Who Lives And...
When we think of war, we might think of soldiers on the front line – or those pulling the trigger – as the ones responsible for the death or injuries of those they are targeting. But...
Canada’s Hypocrisy: Recognizing Genocide Except Its Own Against...
The Canadian Parliament is sometimes at the cutting edge of genocide recognition and human rights. It has labelled China’s treatment of the Uyghur’s as genocide but what about...
Supersonic Flights Are Set To Return – Here’s How They Can...
United Airlines has announced it will purchase up to 50 Boom Overture supersonic jets for commercial use by 2029, heralding the return of supersonic passenger flights nearly 20 years after the...
G7 Deal: UK Is Badly Conflicted Between Offshore Tax Havens And...
For four decades, there has been a global race to the bottom on multinational tax, with Britain and its network of tax havens at the heart of it. Multinationals have seen tax as a cost rather than...
Exotic Leathers: Why Fashion Products Are More Sustainable Than...
The fashion industry tries to do the right thing when it comes to sustainability – after all, its profits increasingly depend on it. But it needs help. This is where science comes in. It is the...
Is It Time To Give Up On Consciousness As ‘The Ghost In The...
As individuals, we feel that we know what consciousness is because we experience it daily. It’s that intimate sense of personal awareness we carry around with us, and the accompanying feeling of...
After 12 Years of Netanyahu, Here’s What To Expect From A New...
Israeli politics are entering a new chapter. After inconclusive elections in March, a politically diverse coalition has formed to end Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 years as prime minister. The eight-party...
Has COVID Brought About A Far-Right Dystopia?
If at the turn of the 21st century, the world already seemed decidedly ‘flatter’ and more compressed, after a year of closed borders, silent airports, ‘stay at home’ injunctions, and all sorts of...
A New Era of Spaceflight? Promising Advances in Rocket Propulsion
The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) has recently commissioned three private companies, Blue Origin, Lockheed Martin and General Atomics, to develop nuclear fission thermal...