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The UK and France are once again exchanging ultimatums in their long-running dispute over who gets to fish in which bits of the sea after Brexit. In this round of the argument, the UK wants to take legal action over licence arrangements and France wants to cut off Jersey’s electricity supply.
For anyone surprised by how rapidly these spats spiral into threats of such magnitude, it’s worth looking back at the history of Britain’s arguments with its neighbours over territorial waters. It started way back in the 1600s with a Scottish lawyer taking on a Dutch antagonist. Be warned, though, no one comes out of this story looking good.
International tensions between India and Pakistan have also been playing out by proxy in recent days – this time through the medium of cricket.
And as leaders gather in Glasgow for COP26, a look at what role deforestation plays in climate change.
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Laura Hood
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A scene from the First Anglo-Dutch War, from British Battles on Land and Sea, by James Grant.
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Richard Blakemore, University of Reading
Years of bitter words and dodgy use of history eventually became the foundations of the modern law of the sea.
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Only a game? India and Pakistan’s cricket teams after the recent Pakistan victory in the T20 World Cup.
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Amalendu Misra, Lancaster University
Kashmiri students were among more than 14 people arrested for celebrating Pakistan’s recent win over India.
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Tom Pugh, Lund University
Halting forest loss is a crucial milestone on the road to net zero.
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Rick Wash, Michigan State University
Weirdness is a clue about fraudulent email messages. But it takes more than a sense that something’s wrong to get people to investigate.
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Dan Lunt, University of Bristol; Darrell Kaufman, Northern Arizona University
What climate changes in the distant past can tell us about the near future.
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Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women's University
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida now has the challenge of delivering on his promise of ‘new capitalism’.
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