By Mark Bennister, Associate Professor, University of Lincoln
Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
All prime ministerial memoirs are about shaping legacies. “History will be kind to me,” Churchill is alleged to have said before writing his own six-volume history. “For I intend to write it.”
But among these memoir writers sits a sub-genre of leaders who need to do some pretty serious legacy shaping. Think Anthony Eden on Suez, Margaret Thatcher on the poll tax, Tony Blair on Iraq or David Cameron on Brexit.
There are several different…
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By Melanie Griffiths, Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
Five months ago, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda was unlawful. The court found the African country was “unsafe” under international law on refugee protection.
The UK government, rather than changing the plan, has just passed a new law to declare that Rwanda is safe. This is not just a farcical legal workaround, it is deeply ironic given the unsafe conditions for asylum seekers in the UK. And,…
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By Chris Parry, Principal Lecturer in Finance, Cardiff Metropolitan University
It may seem like a long time away but having an idea of how much income you’ll need to survive on in future is crucial.
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By Rayan Succar, Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, New York University
Maurizio Porfiri, Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, New York University
Philadelphia has a high rate of gun homicides despite having relatively few gun owners and gun stores compared with other US cities.
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By Selcuk Uluagac, Professor of Computing and Information Science, Florida International University
Modern web browsers are increasingly becoming like virtual computers, able to send email and play music and videos. The downside is it’s a new way for hackers to get into your computer.
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By Jacqueline R. Evans, Associate Professor of Psychology, Florida International University
Legal psychology researchers are investigating how police treat drunken suspects, how impaired people behave when questioned, and how juries consider their statements.
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By Oliver Schilke, Director of the Center for Trust Studies, Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Arizona
When you think about economic activities that society tends to frown on – like offering bribes, paying for the services of a sex worker or even selling human organs – “trust” and “loyalty” might not be the first things that come to mind. But these seemingly positive characteristics play a key role in letting people disguise illicit transactions as something more socially acceptable, my colleague Gabriel Rossman and I recently found in a series…
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By Chee Meng Tan, Assistant Professor of Business Economics, University of Nottingham
US secretary of state Antony Blinken fired a warning salvo towards China during a G7 foreign ministers’ meeting on the Italian island of Capri on April 20. The US’s top diplomat said that China is a “prime contributor” of weapons-related technology to Russia, and was fuelling what is the “biggest threat to European security since the end of the Cold…
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By Oliver Gough, DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford
In polarising political times, the death of Frank Field at the age of 81 seems to speak to the death of a certain kind of politician. Gracious, impeccably polite, unwaveringly principled and driven by an unmistakable moral conviction, few politicians today seem to fit the mould from which he was cast.
One theme emerges above all others in the tributes made to Field: that the man who served as MP for Birkenhead for 40 years offers an exemplary case of “good character”.
These words are not cheap clichés. The idea of good character was fundamental to Field’s vision of politics…
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By Carmen Beatriz Fernández, Profesora de Comunicación Política en la UNAV, el IESA y Pforzheim, Universidad de Navarra
Pedro Sánchez has taken a controversial five day pause to reconsider his position at the head of Spain’s government. This ambitious gamble has put him in the spotlight once again.
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