23/01/2014  -  2.54pm

EDL: Not racist, not violent, just no longer silent?

Posted by: Dr George Kassemeris

The English Defence League (EDL) emerged in 2009 as a mass street protest movement able to attract supporters in the thousands to demonstrate against ‘Islamic extremism’ in towns and cities across the UK.

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17/01/2014  -  3.32pm

Dorothy Hobson, senior lecturer and course leader in Contemporary Media

Posted by: Dorothy Hobson, senior lecturer and course leader in Contemporary Media

The Channel 4 documentary series Benefits Street has caused a legitimate outcry from the residents of James Turner Street in Winson Green, Birmingham. The five part series was filmed over a year and shows the residents of the area as people on benefits and living, what the production portrays as, a rather feckless life.

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14/01/2014  -  11.31am

Dealing with the Blackadder view of the war

Posted by: Gary Sheffield, Professor of War Studies, University of Wolverhampton

Michael Gove’s comments about the First World War have ensured that what some of us feared would happen has come to pass.

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10/01/2014  -  2.11pm

Fractured: how sporting injury affects psychological states

Posted by: Professor Andrew Lane, Professor of Sports and Exercise Psychology

For Theo Walcott, the first sound he heard would have been the savage twist of gristle and the next his own screams of pain. The very moment the 24-year-old striker hit the turf in Arsenal’s recent FA Cup game against Tottenham Hotspur, he must surely have known how serious his injury was. The hope of performing on the big stage, the excitement in what that brings, the months of training in in the build-up were, he must have acknowledged, all lost in that brief moment in time.

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