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I Disagree With Much of What Margaret Thatcher Did – But I Won’t Celebrate Her Death
We all knew this day was bound to come sooner or later. Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990, has long suffered from ill-health, including a severe case of dementia. The hero of the right, and villai...
China: The MDG’s Are About More Than Economic Empowerment
The first target of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was met in 2010, as the global poverty rate of $1.25 a day fell in 2010 to less than half the 1990 rate. This was achieved largely as a result of the huge leaps made b...
Urban heat islands and urban tree mapping
Urban heat islands (UHI) result from urbanization, seen around the world. As space becomes limited and the needs of people change, further urbanization (urban growth) will occur.
White American Claims to Be Kenya’s First Female Maasai Warrior
Mindy Budgor is an American woman from Southern California who has released a book, “Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior“, detailing her controversial attempt to become the first female Maa...
Gender Based Violence: The scourge of emergencies
Even the most well resourced nation is almost always caught off guard by an emergency. An emergency can cause a humanitarian crisis which leads to a total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting from conflict. In many ...
‘The Base With No Foundation’
Fawaz Gerges, a prominent Middle Eastern scholar, notes that there exists a ‘terrorism narrative’ in the West. Amongst government officials and the wider public, the notion of imminent terrorist attack seems institutionali...
