Caitlin McLean – The Conversation

She speaks. Russell Boyce/POOL/EPA

May 27, 2015

Queen’s speech 2015: the experts respond

Helen Fenwick, Durham University; Alex Nurse, University of Liverpool; Andrew Street, University of York; Anya Ahmed, University of Salford; Arman Sarvarian, University of Surrey; Benjamin Bowman, University of Bath; Caitlin McLean, Glasgow Caledonian University; Imran Awan, Birmingham City University; Katharine Jones, Coventry University; Michael Emerson, Centre for European Policy Studies; Michael Jopling, Northumbria University, Newcastle; Peter Lynch, University of Stirling; Prem Sikka, University of Essex; Roy Sainsbury, University of York, and Stephen Roper, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Academic experts break down the bills in the Queen’s speech and get to grips with the new Conservative government’s agenda.

Good deeds don’t always work out that way. Nailia Schwartz

May 1, 2015

Caitlin McLean, Glasgow Caledonian University

Politicians promising to expand free childcare is no bad thing, but it is difficult to deliver in practice