Dr James Blake, Research Fellow at the Centre for Space Domain Awareness, comments on SLIM, Japan's Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, which will land on the lunar surface tomorrow – 19 January 2024.

It is important not to forget that this plan to ‘stop the boats’ addresses a relatively small number of individual asylum cases, and is not a comprehensive or humane plan to tackle the scale of the challenges around welcoming and processing asylum claims. The real challenge is in stopping human suffering and dismantling the systems and prejudices which produce and sustain it.

As a front runner, Trump will increasingly define the Republican opposition to Biden’s presidency but also give the current president a clear focal point in his campaign for re-election. Tuesday, November 5th is a long way off but the US presidential election process is very much underway! All eyes on the New Hampshire primary next week but also the US Supreme Court which will soon decide whether states can bar Trump from their election ballots due to his role in the January 6, 2021 attempted insurrection on Capitol Hill.

Professor Alok Choudhary of Warwick Manufacturing Group at the University of Warwick, a specialist in global supply chain, discusses the potential impact on global supply chains due to the Red Sea crisis.

Once the known as the awards show where film and television stars partied in a hotel banquet room, the Golden Globes had fallen on hard times in the last few years.