Society + Politics - The Deeping

Dec 1, 2025

‘I have to talk about it so that the world can know what happened to women and girls in Sudan’ – rape and terror sparks mass migration

Sabine Lee, University of Birmingham; Heather Tasker, Dalhousie University, and Susan Bartels, Queen’s University, Ontario I was in Khartoum when the conflict started. Armed soldiers of Arabs came to our house and they wanted to loot groundnuts, but my mother resisted opening the door. Immediately, one soldier shot her. I screamed but three

Nov 25, 2025

Global inequality is as urgent as climate change: the world needs a panel of experts to steer solutions

Joseph E. Stiglitz, Columbia University and Imraan Valodia, University of the Witwatersrand Given the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn’t countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along the same lines as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations body set up

Nov 25, 2025

Just follow orders or obey the law? What US troops told us about refusing illegal commands

Ph. There are certain situations in which the military should not fall in line. Bo Zaunders/Corbis Documentary via Getty Images Charli Carpenter, UMass Amherst and Geraldine Santoso, UMass Amherst As the Trump administration carries out what many observers say are illegal military strikes against vessels in the Caribbean allegedly smuggling drugs, six Democratic

Nov 24, 2025

Why MAGA is so concerned with Epstein − and why the files are unlikely to dent loyalty to Trump

MAGA hats are placed on a table at an election night party in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Nov. 5, 2024. Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images Alex Hinton, Rutgers University – Newark With the latest shift by President Donald Trump on releasing the Epstein files held by the U.S. Department of

Nov 20, 2025

Africa has a debt crisis: momentum from G20 in South Africa can help find solutions

Danny Bradlow, University of Pretoria The end of South Africa’s G20 presidency does not mean the end of its ability or responsibility to promote the issues it prioritised during 2025. It can still advocate for action on some of these issues through its further participation in the G20 and in other international and

Nov 19, 2025

BBC bias? The Prescott memo falls well short of the standards of impartiality it demands

The Prescott memo was leaked to the Daily Telegraph. Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock Stephen Cushion, Cardiff University The BBC has long weathered accusations of bias. So why did the latest scandal lead to the resignations of the BBC’s director general and head of news? Many have pointed to the BBC board’s internal divisions over how

Nov 19, 2025

Five key issues at the UN climate summit in Brazil – and why they matter to you and the planet

Alix Dietzel, University of Bristol and Katherine Fitzpatrick, University of Bristol The world’s most important climate summit – known this year as Cop30 – has begun in the Amazonian port city of Belém, Brazil. It promises to be contentious: key countries haven’t submitted new climate plans, and negotiations are held up by disputes

Nov 19, 2025

European nations have no choice but to raise retirement ages – our case study shows why

Ph. Group of elderly Italians sitting on a bench in the centre of Scicli, Italy. Eddy Galeotti/Shutterstock Javier Díaz Giménez, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra) and Julián Díaz Saavedra, Universidad de Granada In early October 2025, with his political future hanging by a thread, France’s resigned-and-reappointed prime minister Sébastien Lecornu pledged to

Nov 18, 2025

Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket landed its booster on a barge at sea – an achievement that will broaden the commercial spaceflight market

Ph. Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket lifted off for its second orbital flight on Nov. 13, 2025. AP Photo/John Raoux Wendy Whitman Cobb, Air University Blue Origin’s New Glenn rocket successfully made its way to orbit for the second time on Nov. 13, 2025. Although the second launch is never as flashy as

Nov 13, 2025

Involving women in peace deals reduces chance of a conflict restarting by up to 37%

Giuditta Fontana, University of Birmingham; Argyro Kartsonaki, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, University of Hamburg; Natascha Neudorfer, Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf, and Stefan Wolff, University of Birmingham Twenty-five years ago, on October 31, 2000, the United Nations unanimously adopted its landmark security council resolution 1325 (WPS 1325). The resolution on women,

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