Trump 'tightens the noose' on Iran. Will it backfire?
There have been a lot of sanctions programmes against Iran. But this week US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced Operation Economic Outcast, which promises to go further than ever before. It wi...
27 Aug 26min
Canada’s Mark Carney fights back
What are the costs of standing up to your biggest trading partner? Canada recently walked away from trade talks with the US hours before Trump's deadline to impose major tariffs on Canadian goods. Pri...
26 Aug 27min
Will the new cancer vaccine survive RFK Jr’s America?
A new personalised vaccine given in combination with a drug has stopped skin cancer returning in patients during a trial, representing a potentially watershed moment in cancer treatment. Scientists us...
25 Aug 26min
The campaign to replace Zelensky
Last week Ukraine's popular ex-defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov called for wartime elections, in what is widely seen as the biggest challenge to Volodymyr Zelensky's presidency since Russia's full-sc...
24 Aug 27min
The end of Harry and Meghan’s American dream
The Duke of Sussex told the BBC last year that he, “can't see a world in which I would be bringing my wife and children back.” So what’s changed?Prince Harry and his wife, the Duchess of Sussex, plan ...
21 Aug 26min
Jason Arday, DEI, and the dilemma facing black academics
How did a prominent Cambridge professor come to embody the fault lines around DEI in higher education?Three years ago, Jason Arday was celebrated as the youngest black professor ever appointed at the ...
20 Aug 26min
Is Kim Jong Un the real winner of the Iran war?
President Trump took to Truth Social last weekend to announce that the US will "substantially reduce" joint military exercises with South Korea. He cited his "very good relationship" with North Korea'...
19 Aug 26min
The West Bank settler siege
Two Palestinian families in the village of Qusra in the West Bank have been under siege by Israeli settlers for over a week. The Palestinian-American owner of one of the homes traveled to the West Ban...
18 Aug 26min
