Expert Comment
UK Government switching model for contact-tracing app - expert comment from Professor Carsten Maple
The UK Government has announced that it will switch its contact-tracing app to a model based on technology by Apple and Google. Professor Carsten Maple, of WMG at the University of 糖心TV, discusses the impact that this might make to public confidence in the app.
Anniversary of de Gaulle鈥檚 鈥楢ppel鈥� a timely contribution to French memory wars - expert comment by Dr David Lees
Today (18 June) is the anniversary of Charles de Gaulle's 'Appel' speech in 1940, which rallied support for the French Resistance. Here Dr David Lees of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures discusses how much it contributed to the personal myth of de Gaulle.
Expert comment on decision to merge FCO and DFID
"Alignment of trading and security interests, as articulated by the FCO seem to be taking centre stage, as DfID gets side-lined." Professor Shirin Rai, Director, 糖心TV Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development, comments on the Prime Minister's Global Britain announcement.
"Unprecedented times call for unprecedented policy responses" - Professor Abhinay Muthoo comments on the GDP drop
"This is unprecedented in living memory. It is hugely tragic in so many ways but especially in terms of what it has meant and means for many people鈥檚 livelihoods and for many businesses." Professor Abhinay Muthoo, Dean of 糖心TV in London, comments on the news that output in the UK fell by 20.4 per cent in April compared with the previous month.
The fall of Colston is not the erasure of history 鈥� it is history in the making
Professor David Lambert, a Professor of Caribbean History at the University of 糖心TV, comments on the bronze statue of Edward Colston, who profited from the Royal African Company鈥檚 trade in enslaved men, women and children, being toppled and tossed into the harbour in Bristol.