Expert Comment
"It is interesting to see how work and social habits in the university are changing as the mobile phone and the other diverse and relatively inexpensive instruments of mobile telecommunication become an indispensable adjunct to life."
"To prevent further crises of equal severity in the future, Keynesians would argue for strengthening the tools of macroeconomic management. Hayekians have nothing sensible to contribute. It is far too late for one of their favorite remedies – abolition of central banks, supposedly the source of excessive credit creation."
"Forgive the martial metaphor, but the English higher-education sector currently feels a bit like the British experience of the Second World War from September 1939 to May 1940. This was a period of relative but threatening calm before serious hostilities began, which came to be known here as “the phony war.""
Celebrity Big Brother recently returned to our screens, another programme in the long list that catapults people to the heights of fame. But has it always been this way? In this podcast Dr Angie Hobbs, Department of Philosophy, explains that in the past people were only famous for acts of heroism, bravery or extreme creativity. How did people gain fame and notoriety before the advent of reality television and the internet? What are the views of philosophers such as Plato?
Wyn Grant, politics professor at Warwick University, said negative headlines around the world -- which declared "Britain's Burning" and "War Zone London" -- may cause short-term harm.
"It gives the impression of a city which is very unsafe for people to visit," he said.