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The Conversation

A collection of blog posts about current affairs written by University of Essex academics and originally published on The Conversation.

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How to be a god: we might one day create virtual worlds with characters as intelligent as ourselves

Dr Richard Bartle

18 January 2022

Is the party over for Boris Johnson? This polling detail suggests it could be

Professor Paul Whiteley

12 January 2022

Why the UK government's plan to overturn court decisions is a bad idea

Lee Marsons, Professor Maurice Sunkin, Professor Theodore Konstadinides

22 December 2021

How much trouble is Boris Johnson in? Lessons from the fall of Margaret Thatcher

Professor Paul Whiteley, Professor Harold D Clarke

22 December 2021

Lumo: why the latest Edinburgh-London train service could wean us off planes and roads

Dr James Fowler

23 November 2021

Nevermind at 30: why the Nirvana baby lawsuit is a warning for parents

Dr Alexandros Antoniou

16 November 2021

COP26: what’s the point of this year’s UN climate summit in Glasgow?

Dr Federica Genovese, Dr Patrick Bayer

15 October 2021

Global voter turnout has been in decline since the 1960s – we wanted to find out why

Dr Filip Kostelka, Professor André Blais

24 September 2021

Why corporate reforms falter: some insights from Kenya

Dr Danson Kimani

15 September 2021

Cuts to housing benefits led to overcrowding during the pandemic

Dr Amy Clair

01 September 2021

Don’t be fooled by signs of recovery – pandemics weaken the flow of business ideas for seven years

Dr Thanos Verousis

03 August 2021

Studying maths post-GCSEs aids brain development – should it be compulsory?

Dr Alexei Vernitski, Alexander Partner

13 July 2021

Myanmar demonstration

Myanmar: could defecting security forces bring down the military regime?

Professor Natasha Lindstaedt

15 April 2021