MIL-OSI Global: Theresa May’s Brexit deal: here’s how the factions want to rewrite it
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Simon Usherwood, Reader in Politics, University of Surrey After a week of high drama, even by the usual standards of Brexit, we find ourselves with something of a conundrum. On the one hand, no one in parliament seems to like the text of the Withdrawal Agreement that Theresa […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: UN envoy is correct to call for greater social rights protections in the UK – says former rapporteur
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Hunt, Professor of Human Rights, University of Essex For 12 days, Philip Alston, the UN envoy on extreme poverty and human rights, and his tireless team, have travelled the length and breadth of the UK. They’ve listened to hundreds of people who have experienced poverty. Many of […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Spinal implant breakthroughs are helping people with paraplegia walk again
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Ioannis Dimitrios Zoulias, Postdoctoral researcher in biomedical engineering, University of Reading Someone in the world suffers a spinal cord injury every one to two minutes, often leading to irreversible and life-changing loss of movement and feeling. But two research groups recently achieved something that had never been done […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Ethical questions over Number 10’s social media push for Brexit deal
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Toby S James, Senior Lecturer in British & Comparative Politics, University of East Anglia The prime minister is on a mission to defend her Brexit deal. After a three-hour grilling from MPs on November 15, Theresa May came out fighting in a press conference, dismissing the idea that […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Ireland’s border: mapping the emotional landscape of the across and in-between
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Garrett Carr, Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, Queen’s University Belfast I grew up near Ireland’s border when it was a hard border, though we had yet to learn the term. The border was guarded with customs posts and military fortifications, and often there were searches and questions. Many people […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Happy birthday Mickey Mouse – animation’s greatest showman is 90
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Paul Wells, Director of the Animation Academy, Loughborough University Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho recently criticised his players for not having the courage to take penalty kicks, declaring: “I don’t like Mickey Mouses.” His choice of words made him surely just the latest to misunderstand one of the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: What is the ‘right’ age to have a child?
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Charlotte Walker, DPhil Candidate in Women’s and Reproductive Health, University of Oxford Over the past three decades, there has been a steady increase in the average age of parents. Advances in fertility science mean that people can, literally, put their eggs or sperm on ice and delay the […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Theresa May’s deal is almost exactly the Brexit the UK voted for
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Craig Berry, Reader in Political Economy, Manchester Metropolitan University Forgive me, I may have missed something. There has of course been a lot to take in over the last few days. But, despite what the latest former Brexit secretary believes, it seems to me that the Brexit withdrawal […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: How vultures use each other as guides through the turbulent skies
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hannah Williams, Postdoctoral research associate, Swansea University How would you move through a space when you can’t see the obstacles ahead? For example, how would you find your way out of a maze if you were blindfolded? You could either use your other senses, such as touch, to […]
Read More →MIL-OSI Global: Vultures navigate through invisible air currents by eavesdropping
Source: The Conversation – UK – By Hannah Williams, Postdoctoral research associate, Swansea University How would you move through a space when you can’t see the obstacles ahead? For example, how would you find your way out of a maze if you were blindfolded? You could either use your other senses, such as touch, to […]
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