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A blog post from Politics and International Studies Professor :

Commodity trading houses are secretive, largely unregulated, pay relatively little tax and, until recently, have made big profits. Not surprisingly, they have come under increasing scrutiny with the Financial Times headlining a major investigation on Monday ahead of its global commodities summit which was marked by an anti-industry protest...

A blog post from Politics and International Studies Professor :

It's fair to say that Mrs Thatcher was no fan of football. She tended to see it through a 'law and order' lens, although it has to be admitted that there were serious problems of that kind during the time she was Prime Minister...

Predictably responses to Mrs Thatcher's death are polarised between those who adored or admired her and those who hated her., believes Mrs Thatcher was the first person in power to argue against the dominant view that Britain's relative economic decline was inevitable and simply had to be 'managed'.

A blog post from Department of Economics :

In my heart, at the time, I was enraged by what Margaret Thatcher did. But now she belongs to history. In my head, looking back as an economic historian, I have to acknowledge the necessity of it. When she came to power, our country was a pretty miserable place: stagnant, strife-torn, and full of bullies. Money was more equally distributed than it is now, but money was worth less than power, and power was highly concentrated in the hands of state monopolies, private monopolies, and organized labour...

In his latest blog, Professor Mark Harrison asks who are we fighting in Afghanistan?