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Professor David Lambert, a Professor of Caribbean History at the University of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ, comments on the bronze statue of Edward Colston, who profited from the Royal African Company’s trade in enslaved men, women and children, being toppled and tossed into the harbour in Bristol.

As Centrica, the owner of British Gas, has announced plans to cut 5,000 jobs, Professor David Elmes of ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Business School and Professor Mike Waterson of the Department of Economics comment on the factors that may have led the company to this decision.

Results of a new survey suggest that over half of the UK population is struggling with sleep problems during lockdown. Here, Dr Nicole Tang from the ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Sleep and Pain Laboratory in the Department of Psychology comments on how events like the COVID-19 pandemic can disrupt our sleep, while sleep expert Dr Michelle Miller from ÌÒÉ«ÊÓƵ Medical School offers some advice on sleeping well during lockdown.

As former US Defence Secretary James Mattis criticises the Trump administration in an article for The Atlantic, Dr Georg Löfflmann of the Department of Politics and International Studies discusses how unprecedented his comments are.

"How many in Britain know about the Bristol Bus Boycott or the 1958 racist riots in Nottingham and Notting Hill?" As Black Lives Matter campaigners including actor John Boyega gather in Hyde Park, Dr Simon Peplow, Senior Teaching Fellow in 20th Century British History, turns the spotlight on "Britain’s long history of racism."