SPOTLIGHT

Labour Economics: Economy in 2020

Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Economy in 2020’ is admirable for the working class in its principles but ultimately has its flaws. Battered and bruised, with knees rocking after a haymaker, Labour’s current predicament within British politics resembles that of a boxer that has been tactically outclassed for ten rounds, it’s close to a stoppage. Granted, politics has […]

The UK response to the “refugee crisis” is theoretically sound but practically counterproductive

The UK Conservative government has a strategy for tackling the current “refugee crisis” that is theoretically convincing but practically contradictory. The strategy consists of letting as few refugees onto UK soil as it can get away with, whilst increasing efforts to tackle the source of the crisis. The former is implicit in the numbers: until […]

Sport

Athletics’ Quick Fix: How the politics of doping is taking athletics to the brink of ruin

June 2003 As most sport-crazy 9 – 90 year-old boys do, I began reading my copy of the Mail on Sunday from the last page to the first. But on this particular day, my eyes were strangely captivated by the side column rather than the main headline. “World’s Fastest Couple give birth to baby boy”. […]

The fall of oil and the environment


The Fall of Oil and the Environment Bane or Blessing? The recent rapid decline of the price of oil, from around $115 per barrel in mid-2014 to below $50 per barrel by August 2015 (Brent Crude), has prompted widespread concerns about negative impacts of cheap oil on the environment. These concerns can be roughly divided […]

Human Rights

Rufgee crisis: Lessons David Cameron can learn from Lebanon’s example

In the midst of the current refugee crisis it’s easy to get caught up in numbers. Germany is expecting 800,000 by the end of the year – and 500,000 annually for years to come. Australia says they’ll let in 12,000 and David Cameron announced that the UK will accept 20,000 of the most vulnerable Syrian […]


 
 
 

 

Influential women in the tech industry

Women in the technology sector face a whole host of obstacles to success. Structural sexism is widely reported, with 52% of women saying they are paid less for the same job. Zero women executive boards appear to be the norm, a...
by Sneha Nanavati
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World Food Day: Meeting World Food Needs, Sustainably

The Dilema With a projected 8.5 – 10 billion mouths to feed by 2050, attention is increasingly being focused on how we can meet our future food needs. Income levels andurbanisation are also set to increase, placing added dem...
by Emma Weitkamp
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 20 SEPTEMBER 2012

Europe Italy try 22 CIA Agents on kidnap charges Italy’s highest court of appeal has found 23 Americans, all bar one being CIA agents, guilty of kidnapping Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric, in Milan in 2003. The prosecution alleg...
by Tom Dunbar
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Daily News Roundup – 7 January 2013

  Asia Chinese newspaper journalists in rare strike Journalists at a major Chinese paper, the Southern Weekly, have gone on strike in a rare protest against censorship.  The row was sparked last week when the paper’s Ne...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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World Malaria Day: Famous People Who Died Because Of Malaria And How I Found Them Out

It was April last year and I was preparing for my trip to India. My mum was frantically asking me to change my mind and stay safe in England, rather then go to that land of exotic diseases. Around the same time I started taking...
by Paula Munteanu
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60,000 Dead in Syria {Cartoon}

The overall death toll in devastated Syria has surpassed an estimated 60,000 people, the United Nations said Wednesday, a dramatic figure that could skyrocket as the civil war persists. It’s “truly shocking” a...
by Mohammad Ali Ziaei
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