In the news – 8 December 2015

Professor Anthony Glees was interviewed about:

• the policy of airstrikes on the IS in Syria (before the vote in Parliament was cast) on the BBC TV News Channel’s Seven O’Clock News. Professor Glees was also interviewed on the same topic by BBC Oxford and was the studio guest on BBC Three Counties Radio with Diane Abbott.
• the Syrian crisis by BBC Radio London and BBC Radio Oxford
• the result of the Syria vote in Parliament by BBC Radio Berkshire, BBC Three Counties, BBC London, LBC’s Clive Bull, BBC Oxford and BBC Radio Scotland
• the Leytonstone attack by LBC
• the current terror threat by BBC Radio Wales and BBC’s Persian Service TV News

He was mentioned in:

• Allister Heath,  “A refusal to think freely is making universities increasingly irrelevant“, Daily Telegraph, 2 December

Professor Glees was one of a small group of academics invited to the Home Office to a confidential roundtable discussion on the Government’s proposed new interception of communications legislation. Amongst the officials present were Professor Bernard Silverman FRS, the chief scientific advisor to the Home Office.