Expert Comment
Happiness slides across Europe as speculation mounts on new UK Happiness Index.
Professor Mark Harrison, Department of Economics, discusses whether the latest comprehensive spending review marks the end of Britain’s welfare state.
Vice-Chancellor, Professor Nigel Thrift discusses British Politics and Higher Education
Prof Lord Robert Skidelsky, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy (Department of Economics) was on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 14th October discussing government spending and GDP with Jonathan Freedland. The programme compared the present public spending review with the 'Geddes Axe' of 1921-22.
Dr Sarah Richardson, Associate Professor in the Department of History and History Subject Director at the Higher Education Academy, discusses how Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has authenticated his blueprint for political and constitutional reform with a comparison to the 1832 'Great' Reform Act, promising to deliver: "The biggest shake up of our democracy since 1832, when the Great Reform Act redrew the boundaries of British democracy, for the first time extending the franchise beyond the landed classes."