Expert Comment
Royal baby announcement raises succession issues
This announcement underlines the importance of carrying into effect long-proposed amendments to the laws governing succession to the Crown.
Battle Now Joined for Scotland's Constitutional Future
This week’s launch of the 'Better Together' or 'No' campaign for the 2014 Scottish independence referendum means that the battle over Scotland’s constitutional future now begins in earnest. Alex Smith, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology explains how the next two years will prove decisive in the history of both Scotland and the United Kingdom – whether or not the former elects to leave the latter in 2014.
Russia’s national income in war and revolution, 1913 to 1928
A new collaborative piece from Mark Harrison, Warwick's Professor of Economics, and Andrei Markevich, Assistant Professor of Economic History at the New Economic School, Moscow. The two academics explore Russia’s economic catastrophe at the start of the 1920s in the hope of yielding lessons for the relationship between state capacity, government policies, and economic development.
Take it back Nick - charities should care about the cap
Following on her from her previous post, Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Economics Department responds to Conservative MP Nick Hurd's suggestion that 'most charities don’t care about tax relief cap'.
Capping tax relief? Say what!?
Professor Kimberley Scharf from the Economics Department offers her views on the government's proposals to impose a cap on tax relief for charitable contributions