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• Expert comment Tony Blair is right Prime Ministers must be allowed to take difficult decisions

  Date: 7 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-comment-tony-blair-is-right-prime-ministers-must-be-allowed-to-take-difficult-decisions

  The Iraq war was a ‘catastrophic error’ and shows us that going to war should always be the last resort, according to Dr Robert Dover from the...

• Academic discusses US nuclear command and control modernisation

  Date: 6 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/academic-discusses-us-nuclear-command-and-control-modernisation

  Dr Andrew Futter from the Department of Politics and International Relations has written an article about US nuclear command and control...

• A win-win for volunteering

  Date: 6 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/a-win-win-for-volunteering

  Philip Grierson, Human Rights and Global Ethics Postgraduate in our Department of Politics and International Relations, has been presented with...

• Chilcot How the Iraq war has led to a rise in extremism and fatally undermined the European Union

  Date: 5 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/chilcot-how-the-iraq-war-has-led-to-a-rise-in-extremism-and-2018fatally-undermined2019-the-european-union

  The Iraq war still scars us today, leading to a rise in extremism and ‘fatally undermining’ the European Union, according to Dr Robert Dover...

• Expert opinions cover Brexit Michael Gove Victorian dismemberment football and US nuclear command

  Date: 1 Jul 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/july/expert-opinions-cover-brexit-michael-gove-and-victorian-dismemberment

  Professor Panicos Demetriades from the Department of Economics has written an article for Think: Leicester giving his initial reaction to the...

• Leicester research supports European Parliament legislation on aggressive corporate tax planning

  Date: 30 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/leicester-research-supports-european-parliament-legislation-on-aggressive-corporate-tax-planning

  A Leicester academic has been at the heart of the European Parliament's attempts to introduce reforms to curb aggressive tax planning and...

• Expert opinions cover slum tourism the BBC and Brexit

  Date: 27 Jun 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/june/expert-opinions-cover-slum-tourism-the-bbc-and-brexit

  Professor Peter Lunt has written an article discussing how Ofcom may soon regulate the BBC - yet we know it already struggles to treat the public...

• Expert opinions cover students registering to vote in the EU referendum advances in cancer research and why we are PROUD of Leicester

  Date: 31 May 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/expert-opinions-covers-students-registering-to-vote-in-the-eu-referendum-and-advances-in-cancer-research

  Professor Paul Boyle, President and Vice-Chancellor of our University, has written an article about the importance of voting in the EU referendum...

• Academics bring expertise to Brexit debate

  Date: 20 May 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/academics-bring-expertise-to-eu-debate

  As the potentially historic EU referendum draws closer and voters consider whether Britain should leave or remain part of the European Union,...

• Leicester experts discuss Brexit in new programme

  Date: 20 May 2016

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/may/leicester-experts-discuss-brexit-in-new-programme

  With less than a month to go until the EU Referendum, European Union experts from across the university have been giving their views on whether...