William Stow, Head of Teacher Education and Development, responds to the House of Commons Select Committee Recruitment and Retention of Teachers report this week, urging the government to heed the […]
Plans for a new law on domestic abuse – a possible vacuous effort?
Dr Sofia Graca, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law, Criminal Justice and Computing, reflects on the Government’s plans to create a new law on domestic abuse.
Free speech, moral panics and the fall of Milo
Professor Bee Scherer, Director of the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE), comments on the recent fall from grace of controversial agent provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos and the hypocrisy of some […]
Are spit hoods too oppressive to be legitimate in a country like ours?
Graham Hooper, Principal Lecturer in the School of Law, Criminal Justice and Policing, challenges the increasing number of police forces in the UK calling for the use of spit hoods.
Winston Churchill, the X-Files and Alien life-forms
Kevin Ruane, Professor of Modern History, explores Churchill’s fascination for science and its power for good or bad.
Domestic incident or everyone’s business?
Dr Sofia Graca explores the implications of a recent change in law in Russia on domestic violence.
Sex, Violence, Terror: A Troubled Church and the End of Religious Protectionism
Professor Bee Scherer, Director of the Intersectional Centre for Inclusion and Social Justice (INCISE) looks ahead to the Church of England’s General Synod on Wednesday. It has not been a […]
Stoke Central and the rise of Ukip
Professor Linden West was born and brought up in Stoke and has studied the city’s communities. Ahead of the Stoke Central byelection, he asks how has his childhood home become prey […]
Questions from the foreign media on Brexit
Dr Amelia Hadfield, Director of the Centre for European Studies, looks at how the foreign media reacted to Prime Minister May’s Lancaster House speech.