by Talking Humanities | Jun 22, 2020 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Diversity expert, Dr Felicity Daly, is wary of Boris Johnson’s ‘Global Britain’ vision in light of the merger of the world’s leading aid agency into the Foreign Office and hopes this new ‘super department’ does not forget Britain’s legacy and unfinished business. A...
by Talking Humanities | Jan 23, 2020 | Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, reports on a conference urging the governments of Commonwealth member states to take concrete action and put the issue of press freedom high on their list of priorities. How serious is the...
by Talking Humanities | Dec 12, 2019 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, is ‘extremely sceptical’ about the ‘old, tattered, comfort blanket’ of Commonwealth as Empire 2.0. There’s a widespread assumption that if the UK leaves the European Union (EU), the...
by Talking Humanities | Jul 24, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law
Professor Philip Murphy, director of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, welcomes a new generation of Commonwealth activists who are using established legal and constitutional tools to tackle its ‘imperial-era homophobic laws’. I went to a rather...
by Talking Humanities | May 6, 2019 | Events, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law, PotW
The modern Commonwealth is all round us, not least because of migration into Britain since the Second World War. These population flows included returning communities from the dissolving British Empire, socioeconomic migrants, family reunions and marriage, refugees...
