Brief Exchanges

Brief Exchanges are one-off blog posts that aren’t necessarily related to the main debate topics and debate questions currently being discussed on the site. This enables us to pre-empt and react to topical issues, plus share some fascinating insights from our leading academics. We hope you enjoy these good debate topics. Your comments are welcome as always.

• New Brief Exchange – Why is incest a crime? Ask Dr Paul Behrens, University of Leicester.

• Dickens in 2012: Why His Writing Matters 200 Years Later – Discussed by Dr Holly Furneaux

• Why won’t they listen to us? Getting research on management into managers’ practice – Dr Graham Martin

• The Law on Abortion: Misconceptions and Mixed Messages by Dr Liz Wicks

• How can we help clinicians to collaborate in the brave new NHS? asks Dr Graham Martin

• A good year for international criminal justice reflects Dr Paul Behrens

• Why we should scrap the 50p income tax threshold writes Professor Gianni De Fraja

• Murdoch, New Labour and ‘influence’ in British politics by Dr Oliver Daddow

• Reflections on the tenth anniverary of 9/11 a personal review by Emeritus Professor Richard Bonney

• Twitter: the end of privacy as we know it? explored by Dr Paul Reilly

• The Conflict in Libya: Is it Genocide? asks Dr Paul Behrens

• Greece’s last card by Professor Panicos Demetriades

• Enough is Enough: Sounding the alarm of Female Genital Mutilation: argues Sadiyo Siad

• It’s the Outdated Notion of the Countryside Preserved in the Fictional Midsomer That Should Be Murdered by Jon Garland & Neil Chakraborti

• After Osama by Dr Keith Spence

• The Islamic veil is allegedly a ‘threat’ to British values by Irene Zempi