The financing of English local government has become a critical aspect of centre-local relations during a period in which austerity has produced great…

Hundreds of thousands of students and their supporters took part in nationwide protests across France on Tuesday after weeks of student barricades protesting school conditions.

C’est une terrible nouvelle confirmée par plusieurs sources à La Nouvelle République, vendredi 2 octobre 2026 : Maël, lycéen de 16 ans, grièvement blessé mercredi 30 septembre en marge des manifestati...

More than 400 detained as police and students clash over class sizes, exhausting timetables and staff shortages More than 400 people, most of them children, have been detained in France on Tuesday after teenagers across the country blockaded their schools in protest at class sizes, teacher shortages and long timetables. Interior minister Laurent Nunez told BFM TV: “440 were detained across national territory. We don’t have the final tally yet, but I’m told two-thirds led to police custody.” Continue reading...

Certaines actions du mouvement, porté par un sentiment d’injustice et des conditions de vie dégradées, ont donné lieu à des actes de vandalisme ou des tirs de mortier d’artifice.

The University of Cambridge is seeking an exceptional academic leader to become the founding Dean of the Rokos School of Government, alongside appointment to the Rokos Professorship of Government. Thi...

Atlas de la finance, Paul Lepic, Dariusz Wojcik, Alexandra Bensaid : De l’émergence de la monnaie dans l’Antiquité jusqu'à aujourd’hui, la finance e...

Mapping the Global Story of Money

Explicit support for white nationalism is uncommon overall, but higher among young white men, disadvantaged and politically disaffected white people, conservatives, Republicans, and those with primari...

This is another in my occasional series of posts on stuff you might not be told but you will not in fact learn by osmotic immersion in the Academic Ether. (See also my posts on writing job applications, giving a job presentation and what to expect in a job interview.) This time: how to chair a conference session. As always, these are my thoughts - cross-check them with your peers, mentors, supervisors, best academic mates.

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Billionaires want you to believe taxing their extreme wealth is too radical and that it can’t be done.Baloney.Economist

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang argued that because its hardware is broadly adopted, flexible and transferable, lenders can underwrite compute as revenue-generating.