I think this is a really useful, straightforward explanation of what happened yesterday. Michael Gordon, University of Liverpool The UK parliament is running once again after the Supreme Court ruled […]

Anna Hillingdon, Bournemouth University and John Fletcher, Bournemouth University The shock of Thomas Cook’s collapse may create reverberations that travel much further than the 150,000 holidaymakers who are reportedly stranded […]

The Government has issued updated guidance for owners of horses, ponies and other equines on the preparations they need to make in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The guidance published […]

Danny Lawson/PA Catherine Happer, University of Glasgow Researchers working in the field of climate change communications have, for many years, been confronted with the same puzzle: why, when there is […]

Education Secretary Gavin Williamson has backed a review of university admissions, which will consider whether students should apply to university after getting their A level results alongside other options, so […]

Simon Keegan-Phipps, University of Sheffield Love it or loathe it, there’s no question that Last Night of the Proms operates as an elaborate piece of British cultural theatre, on multiple […]

Despite our politicians taking five weeks off with pay (although the Scottish Appeal Court has judged this to be an illegal prorogation), their civil servants are still hard at it, […]

Natural England has today published licences for areas that will undertake badger control operations within the ‘High Risk’ and ‘Edge’ areas of England this autumn. 64,000 badgers are likely to […]

Four in five MPs believe that public attitudes towards politicians have been changed for the worse by social media. It may be, of course, that they are simply under greater […]

Matthew Flinders, University of Sheffield Pig-headed, obnoxious, pompous, too fond of the sound of his own voice … John Bercow has collected a range of epithets during his period as […]