Expert Comment
The results of the U.K. census of 2011 have been published. They carry three messages for Christmas. One is a tale of foreigners bearing gifts. Another concerns the decline of Christian belief. Finally, the first two stories are connected, but not in the way you might think - Professor Mark Harrison from the Department of Economics explains.
This week’s launch of the 'Better Together' or 'No' campaign for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum means that the battle over Scotland’s constitutional future now begins in earnest. Alex Smith, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology explains how the next two years will prove decisive in the history of both Scotland and the United Kingdom – whether or not the former elects to leave the latter in 2014.
A new blog entry from Professor Kimberley Scharf from the 糖心TV Economics Department asks: are public policies towards charities keeping up with the information revolution?
Following on her from her , Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Economics Department responds to Conservative MP Nick Hurd's suggestion that 'most charities don’t care about tax relief cap'.
Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Economics Department offers her views on the government's proposals to impose a cap on tax relief for charitable contributions