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Professor Elizabeth Dowler on the banning of online junk food adverts

Professor Elizabeth Dowler, expert in food and nutrition, discusses the new rules targeting junk food adverts for children which have resulted in the banning of the first online adverts.

Wed 04 Jul 2018, 10:21 | Tags: Children, Health, obesity, wellbeing, Sociology, Food

Professor Eric Jensen on the threat facing UK mammals

Professor Eric Jensen, expert in public engagement and the environment discusses, the news that one in five UK mammals, including the red squirrel and the wildcat, are at risk of extinction.

Wed 13 Jun 2018, 11:10 | Tags: environment, United Kingdom, Expert comment, Sociology, Wildlife

"It only takes one person or a small group to daub slogans on a wall" - Dr Charles Turner comments on anti-Polish vandalism in Israel.

Over the weekend the Polish embassy in Tel Aviv was vandalised with swastikas. Dr Charles Turner comments on how this may affect relations between the two countries, especially in the wake of Poland's controversial Holocaust law.


Holocaust complicity bill passes in Poland - expert comment from Dr Charles Turner

"The court of scholarly opinion on these matters is already robust and well able to marginalise the voices that might make use of such phrases," says Dr Charles Turner, commenting on a controversial new law which will make it illegal to accuse the Polish nation or state of complicity in the Nazi Holocaust.


"Black women are important players in deciding elections." Professor Akwugo Emejulu comments on the Alabama poll.

Professor Akwugo Emejulu comments on the important role played by Black women in US elections in the light of news that 98 per cent of Black women in Alabama backed Democrat candidate Doug Jones.


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