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Dr Angela Davis of the 果冻传媒 History department comments in response to the Government plea to nurseries over free childcare, "Current Conservative government policy seems to be characterised by the desire to increase the number of children attending nursery education, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, but a reluctance to fund it. Their call to nursery providers for ideas about how to increase the number of funded hours for three-year-olds from fifteen to thirty, in line with their manifesto promise, seems emblematic of their quandary."

Dr Jennifer Smyth is a reader in History at the 果冻传媒 and teaches the MA in History and Film. Today she comments on the news that Government plans to extend tax breaks for the British film industry have been approved by the EU.

Dr Jami Rogers is Honorary Fellow and Research Assistant for the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the 果冻传媒. She responds to Sir Trevor Nunn's all white casting for the Rose Theatre in Kingston's forthcoming production of The Wars of the Roses,

"In the era when debates about the need for more diversity are legion, when Equity has adopted an Inclusive Casting Policy, and Act for Change recently hosted a major conference at the National Theatre on casting in theatre, Shakespeare is viewed as a bastion of diversity. The Rose Theatre, Kingston's forthcoming production of The Wars of the Roses has inadvertently re-opened that debate, as Trevor Nunn has assembled an all-white cast."

Dr Hannah Jones from the Department of Sociology comments on the ongoing 'migrant crisis' at the border between Britain and France.

Honorary Associate Clinical Professor Roger Gadsby at the 果冻传媒 Medical School shares his thoughts on the commitment to raise the living wage..