A brief cinematic history of Frankenstein’s Bride as a feminist icon

Frankenstein’s female creature, also known as “the Bride”, was the first female monster to appear on screen, in the 1935 ...

What Keir Starmer can learn from ‘little creep’ Harold Wilson in dealing with an angry US president

Wilson clashed with Lyndon B. Johnson on a personal level but made sure that the US and UK still cooperated where it most ...

Plaid Cymru plans to share wind farm profits with local people – here’s how that idea has been tried elsewhere

There are lessons for Plaid from how similar initiative work elsewhere. Several countries already use financial participation ...

How lessons from Iraq are shaping Starmer’s Iran response

Operation Epic Fury is a US military operation. It will not be possible for the UK to exert any significant influence in ...

Telehealth is widely used by older adults insured by Medicare, new research shows

Policymakers are still deciding whether to make some types of Medicare coverage for telehealth permanent. Studies show it ...

Measuring poverty on a spectrum instead of an arbitrary line conveys a more accurate picture of inequality

Green, a Wall Street investor, created a buzz in late 2025 by arguing that the U.S. poverty line should be jacked up to ...
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Trump offered a restrictive deal to universities that almost all rejected – but the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education may not be entirely dead

Only three small schools not initially approached by the Trump administration agreed to sign the restrictive proposal: The New College of Florida, a public, liberal arts college in Sarasota; Valley ...

Shabana Mahmood is wrong: refugee status was never ‘permanent from day one’

Since the creation of the UN refugee convention, states have had the right to end refugee status. The convention itself, as ...

Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty causes real harms, even if the money is later restored

Public health depends on long-term planning, and when that planning is interrupted, some programs never recover.

How AI could unlock deep‑sea secrets of marine life

Robotic and autonomous underwater vehicles have collected vast quantities of footage from the deep sea, but most of it hasn’t ...

Are women more safe today in England and Wales than they were in the past – or less? What the evidence shows

It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the amount of violence against women and girls that we see in the news on a daily basis. Horrific cases such as that of survivor Gisèle Pelicot can make us wonder how ...