Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point welcomes viewers into the Balsano family’s annual festive gathering. Four generations of the Italian-American family descend on the home of the elderly matriarch ...

Turnout at the 2024 general election was just 60% – one of the lowest in modern history. This is not an isolated phenomenon: there was a decline in turnout for the 2024 local elections, and the ...

Peer review is a central feature of academic work. It’s the process through which research ends up published in an academic journal: independent experts scrutinise the work of another researcher in ...

Was John Prescott the last politician who could thump a member of the public and get away with it? No way.

The mass rape trial that shook France is entering its final phase after 10 weeks. But its implications for how we think about sexual violence and who experiences it will last much longer. Gisèle ...

Donald Trump have found some of his cabinet nominees have not been confirmed in the past. This time he seems to think he can avoid that.

The opposition’s win in Somaliland’s election could help the breakaway state cement its place as a democratic state in a volatile region.

As climate and Earth scientists, we are acutely aware that action on climate change is desperately needed. It is now almost certain that 2024 will not only be the warmest year ever recorded, but also ...

The second series of Bad Sisters starts in the dark of the night. Four women sit in a car at the edge of some cliffs, panicking, arguing, shouting at each other. We are back with the Garvey sisters, ...

Farmers don’t make up that much of the Labour vote – but that doesn’t mean the government can afford to be complacent about rural communities.

There is a cognitive bias called “the curse of knowledge” (sometimes also called “the curse of expertise”). It happens when you incorrectly assume that everyone knows as much as you do on a given ...

La frappe du 21 novembre contre Dnipro et les menaces destinées à l’Occident formulées immédiatement après par Vladimir Poutine ne doivent susciter ni la panique, ni l’indifférence.