The green light for proxy war in Syria may come back to haunt EU
May 28, 2013
Dr Andrew Mumford is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations and the author of a new book Proxy Warfare, published by Polity. Here he discusses the potential impact of the EU’s decision to lift the arms embargo on Syria and, in effect, put externally supplied weapons into the hands of the country’s rebel forces. …
David Cameron’s Parliament to set rebellious record
May 16, 2013
A recent end-of-session report from the University of Nottingham has found that the current Parliament is on course to becoming the most rebellious Parliament since 1945. The research for this report, Cambo Chained or Dissension Amongst the Coalition’s Parliamentary Parties, 2012-2013: A Data Handbook, was led by Professor of Parliamentary Government Philip Cowley and Research Fellow …
Sorry Prime Minister, but the labour market is flat
June 26, 2012
Professor Bruce Stafford, from the School of Sociology and Social Policy, wades in on the PM’s plan to withdraw housing benefit for under-25s. In a major speech on welfare reform, the Prime Minister outlined a number of welfare reforms. The one reform that has received widespread publicity is that to abolish Housing Benefit for those …
Was the Jubilee bad for business?
June 21, 2012
It was a party atmosphere in many places of the country, but was the extra June bank holiday to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee a cause for celebration among our business community too? The UK Business Barometer, an internet survey run by the University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI), has quizzed small- …
Second ‘underpants bomb’ plot shows Al-Qaeda still dangerous
May 10, 2012
There have been two major news stories in the past week that seemingly give off opposing views on the danger posed by Al-Qaeda. To mark the first anniversary of the death of Osama bin Laden last week, the US government authorised the release of seventeen documents captured in his compound in Pakistan. This selective handful …
Barometer view on the Budget
May 9, 2012
Now the dust has settled and the headlines on the ‘granny tax’ and ‘pastygate’ have subsided, businesses are left to ponder the potential impact of the latest Budget on their future fortunes. The Business Barometer, an internet survey run by the University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI), regularly gauges the opinion of …
The trial of Anders Breivik: The rise and rise of the far right
April 17, 2012
The murder trial of Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik began this week. In court today, the 33-year-old described his killing spree on 22 July last year as ‘the most sophisticated and spectacular political attack committed in Europe since the second world war.’ Breivik bombed government buildings in the the Norwegian capital of Oslo, killing eight people. …
The Health & Social Care bill: The battle for implementation has begun
April 5, 2012
Professor Ian Shaw, from Nottingham’s School of Sociology and Social Policy, gives his professional view regarding the implementation of the Health & Social Care bill – and the resistance it is already facing. On 20 March, the day the Health and Social Care Bill was passed, I wrote a blog around the impact of the …
The Health and Social Care Bill and the ‘Kidderminster effect’: a classic study
March 20, 2012
As an Emergency Debate on the Health and Social Care Bill begins in the House of Commons, Professor Ian Shaw, Professor of Health Policy at Nottingham’s School of Sociology and Social Policy, gives his professional view of the bill’s bumpy ride this far – a case study of failure that does not bode well for proposed reforms. …
Politics lecturer, Andrew Mumford, on the Syrian uprising
February 27, 2012
Politics lecturer, Andrew Mumford, writes in the Nottingham Evening Post on the Syrian uprising: When comparing Syria to other countries wrapped up in popular uprisings across the Arab world it is clear there are haunting echoes of Libya: an intractable regime unleashing the full force of military power against rebel areas with no heed for …
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