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Exeter Professor Calls for Policy to Reduce Plastic Pollution

The University of Exeter’s Professor Tamara Galloway has spoken at the Houses of Parliament in support of the Zero Plastic Waste Report, which calls for a renewed anti-plastic policy. The new report is titled Plastic Packaging Plan: Achieving Net Zero Waste Exports and was produced by Policy Connect. Supported by a collective group of 12 political parties, the […]

Abortion laws in Nicaragua and El Salvador: Women as lesser humans.

Nicaragua and El Salvador are 2 out of the 8 countries in the world with a complete abortion ban. It is a crime even if the woman’s life in mortal danger. This means that women all over Nicaragua and El Salvador are being rejected abortion, even if the alternative is certain death. This reflects a […]

One Sicilian village’s lesson to Britain

We need to build a wall” – when Donald Trump uttered these words, the world lambasted this approach to tackling illegal immigration and crime from Mexico. Surely – we thought – we wouldn’t resort to such measures in Europe. Enter the “Great Wall of Calais” a 13 ft, mile-long wall that will run on both […]

Election Day: An interview with Andrew R. T. Davies – Leader of the Welsh Conservatives

Andrew Davies is an old-fashioned kind of conservative: a farmer’s son, in politics to practice what he preaches. He saw something wrong with government in Wales – government not listening to its lobbyists – and went in trying to do something about it. And 15 years later since he first ran for political office, it […]

Exeter professor sees behind the scenes in government

A professor from the University of Exeter had the chance to see the science behind the politics last week, when she left the lab coat behind to visit the House of Commons. Professor of Ecotoxicology in Biosciences, Tamara Galloway, shadowed Exeter MP Ben Bradshaw as part of a pairing scheme run by the UK’s national […]