The Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, has today (8 October 2013) launched an appeal for pro-Europeans and those who have benefitted from EU policy and law to accelerate a campaign to keep the UK in the EU. Ahead of the referendum on the issue of UK membership of the Union – currently scheduled for 2017, […]
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Welcome to the School of Politics. We hope you find your studies to be enthralling over the coming three or four years. This, of course, includes lectures, seminars, and engaging with Module Leaders during their office hours, as well as spending a lot of time in the library reading books and journal articles. Increasingly, engaging […]
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On Monday I was asked to provide ‘expert comment’ on the US government shutdown and said: “The US government shutdown appears dramatic but is not without precedent. For President Obama, like President Clinton in the mid 1990s, the reasons for the shutdown are political and focus on debates about the funding of federal agencies, spending […]
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As part of my preparation for my stand-up routine later this month, I thought I’d watch David Cameron’s speech to his party conference yesterday. Sadly, Dave neither had any good lines I could nick, nor anything particularly outrageous that I could rail against, so in that sense it was a bit of a wash-out. However, […]
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(as seen by Prof Alex Warleigh-Lack) Dear Headmistress, Congratulations on your recent re-appointment. It is an historic achievement, and you should be proud. When you look at how so many of the other schools in the District are doing, however, you may come to wish you had rather less in your in-tray. This briefing […]
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A Conference Report from ‘Behind the Lines: Gender in the Bunker of International Security and Defence?’, University of Surrey, 11th September 2013. On 11th September 2013 postgraduate students from across the UK (and beyond) descended on the School of Politics, University of Surrey to present papers and to debate issues relating to gender and security. […]
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