Expert Comment
"We are sleepwalking into another era of US domination" - Professor Mark Skilton comments on the need to regulate FB
"We need to be very careful when Facebook is 'recommending' more regulation on partitioning personal data for privacy and the issues of fake news" - Professor Mark Skilton of WBS comments on Sir Nick Clegg's call for online companies to be given help to police the content they carry.
Professor Roger Farmer comments on the Bank of England's decision to hold interest rates at 0.75%
The Bank of England's MPC has voted unanimously to maintain the Bank Rate at 0.75%. Professor Roger Famer of Warwick Economics comments.
“How the US reacts in the next few hours will set the tone and be crucial in terms of the way ahead.”
Dr Trevor McCrisken, Associate Professor of US Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, comments on the news that Iranian forces have downed a US military drone.
Swiss women demand "more time, more money, more respect"
Dr Erika Kispeter comments on the news that women in Switzerland are taking a day of action in protest at the national pay gap between the sexes and other inequalities.
"Help to Buy was an attempt to kickstart house price growth" - expert comment
The National Audit Office today released a report on the Government's Help to Buy scheme, which aimed to help more people get on to the property ladder. Dr Jack Copley, an Early Career Fellow in the Institute of Advanced Study at the University of Warwick who researches global finance and the economy, discusses its conclusion that most of those who used the scheme could have bought a home without it.