Daniele Albertazzi, University of Surrey A year ago many pundits feared that Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni’s government would turn out to be a radical one. This was not just because of her...
Every summer, wildfires are reported in the news around the world. Spain knows this phenomenon well and this time the worst affected area so far is La Palma, an island of the Canary archipelago in...
Considering nobody is entirely sure what precisely has happened, the BBC presenter scandal has left nobody covered in glory. Starting with The Sun, a Murdoch paper that has never hidden its disdain...
Welcome to the next in the Podcast Showcase series, where we share podcasts with you in the words of the podcasters themselves. This time, we talk to History of the Germans Sum up your podcast in...
Paul James Cardwell, King's College London and Jed Odermatt, City, University of London The Eurovision bandwagon has firmly arrived in Liverpool. During a week of two semi-finals, 37 competing...
Steve Taylor, Leeds Beckett University Warning: this story contains graphic descriptions of violence. Pseudonyms are used to protect the interviewees’ identities. Angela had already been in the UK...
There is a European country whose leader has been in power since 1990, four years longer than Belarus’ strongman Alexander Lukashenko. This weekend, the game for Montenegro’s President Milo...
When you're a journalist, days dedicated to causes tend to be spent fending off an influx of irrelevant press releases. So overwhelming is the number that it can actually take the shine off them;...
Alex Nurse, University of Liverpool; Alessia Calafiore, The University of Edinburgh, and Richard J. Dunning, University of Liverpool Conspiracy theories aren’t a new thing, and for as long as...
Rainbow Murray, Queen Mary University of London Leading two small countries on opposite sides of the planet, Nicola Sturgeon and Jacinda Ardern have both won widespread respect and admiration for...