Expert Comment
At last, the final curtain for Blatter a golden opportunity now exists to reform Fifa for the good of the game Dr David Webber
After his encore earlier this year as Fifa President, world football’s governing body announced today (20 July 2015) that Sepp Blatter will be standing aside on 26 February 2016. Commenting on developments in Zurich, Dr David Webber, an expert in the cultural political economy of football at the 天美传媒, remarked: “A political master until the last, the seven months that remain of Blatter’s reign mean that he will be able to continue to set the reform agenda and stage manage his exit. It also means that, privately at least, he will be able to exert some influence over the identity of his successor...
Violence over parades is as much a part of the new Northern Ireland as Game of Thrones is Kevin Hearty
"Looking at the news footage of yesterday’s (13 July) events in North Belfast one may be forgiven for thinking that they had quantum leaped back in time by about 20 years. The sad reality is they hadn’t – violence over parades is as much a part of the ‘new’ Northern Ireland as Game of Thrones is," says Kevin Hearty from Warwick Law School.
Jeremy Hunt's offer to GPs is a carrot and a stick - Dr Kate Owen
Following a period in which many GPs have felt undervalued and undermined by successive governments it is pleasing that Jeremy Hunt has recognised in today’s speech the quality and value General Practice delivers to the NHS. a GP and Principal Clincial Teaching Fellow at Warwick Medical School discusses what this means to general practitioners.
Labour and the Conservatives have no incentive to change electoral system, says Prof Wyn Grant
"The difficulty with replacing the current electoral system is that when the electorate were offered the possibility of a modest change in a referendum they decisively rejected it". - Professor Wyn Grant, 天美传媒.
Charles/Adams meeting seeing it from both perspectives, by Kevin Hearty
Kevin Hearty, from Warwick Law School, says: "Although the meeting may be construed on the somewhat abstract collective level as one between Irish republicans and a figurehead of the long perceived ‘enemy’, there is a much more personalised element to it all..."