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In recent years, speech inciting hatred, peddling dissemination, and encouraging self-harm has proliferated on social-media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, prompting calls for regulation to force platforms to tackle these challenges more aggressively. One of the most ambitious proposals is the UK's own Online Safety Bill, which looks likely to be passed (in some form) by the current government and will grant Ofcom substantial new powers over social media. Yet the Bill is highly controversial, prompting concerns over censorship of legitimate speech. What will this regulatory regime look like in practice? Will it effectively prevent harm? And is there merit to the concern that it will undermine free speech? To confront these issues and more, we are joined by leading experts and practitioners from academia, civil society, and Ofcom itself.

Politics has changed hugely in the last 40 years; so has the press; and so has the interaction between them.

"Beginning Research in Political Science takes a learn-by-doing-approach to guide students through all of the steps needed for their own original projects. Each chapter builds from the previous chapter with step-by-step instructions that guide students towards the project's completion. The text features recent data from the World Values Survey and instructional SPSS Statistics software tutorials, along with a variety of features reflecting its consistent pedagogy"--

In this event, David Lammy MP (Shadow Secretary of State for Justice), Subhadra Das (UCL Collections) and Professor Tim Cole (Chair of the #WeAreBristol History Commission) will discuss the current situation with our statues and public spaces, their thoughts about the summer's protests and their ideas for the practical politics of how we move forward from here.

The emergence of International Relations (IR) after the First World War as a distinct field, separate from diplomatic history was primarily conditioned by the need to build a special body of knowledge aimed at unravelling the causes of war as well as the prescriptions for peace. In order to arrive at something close to a systematic knowledge of the varied relationships among states, a positivist methodology was found for IR. At the same time, the scholars and practitioners of International Relations (IR) continued to rely on history for bulk of their information. This explains why the IR is denoted as a multi-disciplinary field. In Nigerian scholarship, the growth and popularity of IR have been brought about by the crisis that bedeviled the discipline of History from the 1980s. In the ensuing crisis of relevance, most departments of history began to rechristen to Departments of History and International Studies or Relations. Consequently, a struggle arises between historians and political scientists for the 'soul' of International Relations discourse in Nigeria. While claims and counter-claims are rife, the main issue appears to bother on the methodological approach of the two disciplines. This study undertakes to examine this matter and as well, attempts to reconcile the differing position of the historian and the political scientist – for, in fact, they are not mutually exclusive. Information for the study came from primary and secondary sources.Keywords: History, Political Science, International Relations, Methodology and Scholarship