To exaggerate is human, and scientists are human. Exaggeration and the complementary art of simplification are the basic rhetorical tools of human intercourse. So yes, scientists do exaggerate. So do politicians…
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Few thought that Serbia’s Euro 2016 qualifying fixture against Albania on October 14 would be an easy match. But the depths to which it sank are shocking even to those familiar with the potency of anti-Albanian…
Since the end of the Cold War, politicians have had recourse to air power on a number of occasions. The conflicts have varied in scale, duration and intensity. Air power played a huge role in the two Gulf…
Plans for a new £600m “floating” cycle route along the edge of the River Thames in London have been announced. It is expected to stretch for around seven miles from Battersea, west of the city centre…
“Something big is happening here.” Those were the words of Nigel Farage following the news that Douglas Carswell had become UKIP’s first member of parliament by attracting 21,113 votes in the Clacton by-election…
Shakespeare’s King Henry IV recently opened at the Donmar. And it has a twist. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter as the king, the production follows Lloyd’s acclaimed Julius Caesar…
In October 2010, a cholera outbreak began in Haiti for the first time in more than 100 years. The strain that was brought into Haiti has been traced to a region in Nepal from which a UN peacekeeping contingent…
The decline of big supermarkets in the face of brutal competition from discount retailers like Aldi and Lidl has been widely discussed. But, as shoppers move away from conventional ways of shopping, little…
Two topics now compete for the opening paragraph in MP Brooks Newmark’s political obituary. One is of course his hubris in thinking that a 26-year old woman – be she Tory or not – would be interested in…
On September 19 the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, concluded a three-day trip to India. As he set off to meet Narendra Modi, Xi wrote in The Hindu that China and India “need to become co-operation partners…
Few bilateral agreements have ever had such turbulent history and implications as the Association Agreement between the EU and Ukraine. It was former president Viktor Yanukovych’s refusal to sign the agreement…
A UK government adviser has suggested that at least five new groups have emerged within the past month to stake a claim to the far-right in the UK. And according to that adviser, the catalyst for their…
The international movement to protect “traditional family values” has grown in proportion to protection for the human rights of LGBT people. In 2011, the Council held a panel on LGBT rights, at the start…
I really thought we might make it. We’d got past the publication of YouGov’s potentially constitution-changing poll showing a minuscule lead for the Yes campaign without anyone grabbing for an easy headline…
An “initial gifting package”: the opaque label is wrapped around £1.6m worth of heavy machine guns and half a million rounds of ammunition, which has now reached the Iraqi town of Arbil courtesy of the…
Another retailer bites the dust. This time it’s Phones 4U that’s closing its doors. But the reality of this company’s demise seems to be the result of the ambitions of phone operators and Phones 4U were…
It seems Scottish voters are warming to the whole independence idea, then – bucking the trend that the experts have been telling us for months they’re almost bound to follow. The poll that this week put…
While Western nations beef up economic sanctions and Nato discusses what stance to take toward Russia, the BRICS are maintaining tacit support for Moscow despite the Ukraine crisis. This is not entirely…
US president Barack Obama has yet to work out exactly what America’s strategy is in confronting Islamic State (IS), and has been foolish enough to say so in public. Cue the foreseeable torrent of point-scoring…
Largely knocked out of the news by the crises in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria and Gaza (to name a few), a civil war has nonetheless devastated South Sudan since December 2013. It has left thousands dead, and more…
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Research Fellow, City-Region Economic Development Institute (City-REDI), University of Birmingham
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Reader in Constitutional Law and Human Rights, University of Birmingham
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Professor of Regional Economic Development, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Environmental Health, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor in Politics, University of Birmingham
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University of Birmingham
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Policy and Data Analyst, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Birmingham
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Senior Fellow, Health Services Management Centre, School of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham
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Investigadora Doctoral del proyecto del Consejo Europeo de Investigación 'Urban Terrorism in Europe (2004-19): Remembering, Imagining, and Anticipating Violence', University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literature, University of Birmingham
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Assistant Professor in Ornithology and Animal Conservation, University of Birmingham
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
