COP20: Trickling progress on day 4
Thursday in Lima, Peru at the UN climate change negotiations saw an intensified focus on our common future. When discussing climate change, it’s hard not to think about tomorrow, and the role of future generations in shaping ...
Tunisia: Between Political Instability, Terrorism and Police Repression
When journalists are arrested because they’ve taken photos for their articles, we ask, where is freedom of expression? When there is denial of accessibility, we ask, where is transparency? When the corrupt hands are out o...
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 Davi...
A Real War on Drugs – Mexico’s Narcotics Conflict
For those of us fortunate to live in the developed world it is perhaps easy to sneer at the rhetorical flourish often used by American and Western leaders to describe their diplomatic and practical support for the prohibition o...
The European Union: What Happens Now?
When the last polling stations closed in Italy on Sunday night, it had already been clear that the elections turned out to be just what had been expected. Despite the first time front-runners had been declared for the main part...
Will We Ever See an Atheist in the White House?
In God We Trust, the inescapable proclamation which notoriously takes pride of place on one of the most iconic and recognisable commodities on the planet; the American dollar bill. A 2012 Gallup Poll indicated that around 82% ...
