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.
Obama’s legacy to the world
Dr Mark Ledwidge, Senior Lecturer in American Studies, reflects on the legacy of Obama’s foreign policy and looks ahead to what we might expect from the leadership of Donald Trump.
John Berger: What’s in an obituary?
Richard Turney, Lecturer in the School of Humanities, looks at the legacy of Booker Prize winner John Berger.