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Picturing Politics: The future of Trident

Picturing Politics, a blog produced by the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham is host to a series of audio and video clips featuring academics commenting on the political significance of a diverse range of images. The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have clashed over the replacement of Trident – …

Sorry Prime Minister, but the labour market is flat

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 …

5-18 April: The big stories

In a bumper news round up, there’s a report of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s visit to The University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus alongside Malaysian PM Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. And with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee fast approaching, chemists from the University decided to etch the Queen’s portrait onto a diamond in celebration as part …