Business As Usual
The Snowden revelations have cause us to re-examine our internet freedom and right to self-privacy. The far reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency and the rest of the Five Eyes (Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealan...
Backwards Is The Future? Women, Tunisia, And Constitutional Debates
Following the Arab Spring, there has been considerable debate on whether women’s rights are under threat from Islamist political parties and the seemingly patriarchal modes of politics they espouse. Despite the very public an...
The Power of Vaccines [Infographic]
Every 20 seconds a child dies from a vaccine preventable disease. That’s over 1.5 million children a year. Today marks the beginning of World Immunisation Week. an initiative run by the United Nations Foundation to raise ...
Did Torture Cost American Lives?
“The enemy is the enemy, until he becomes my prisoner,” I remember Lieutenant General Hal Moore saying, “then he is my responsibility”. Moore was with co-author Joe Galloway at Fort Hood, Texas, in 1993. They were talki...
Privatise the Costs of Bank Failure
We are living in startling times in the European Union. For the past three years, Angela Merkel has used Germany’s large voting power within European institutions to force through an agenda of collective impoverishment fo...
COP18: Day 3 Update
Day 3 of COP18 was punctuated with news of numerous hurdles hampering the progress of the search for solutions to combat climate change. Typical of most negotiations, there were parties who were keen on making it near impossibl...
