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A Crack In The Wall: North Korea’s Educational Paradox
In North Korea, children do not grow up playing tag. Instead, a favourite playground game is pointing toy guns at the heads of American soldiers in military games at school. The posters issued by the party propaganda machine li...
The Insane Politics Of Mental Health
Politicians are paying more attention to the issues of mental health but there is a long way to go before it is taken as seriously as physical health. One in four people will experience a mental health problem at some point in ...
What Politicians Did in the Expenses Scandal has been Underestimated. Lance Armstrong Must Not Get Such Kind Treatment
How does one man go from being the perfect hero to a globally loathed ‘lying bastard’? By undertaking and overseeing the most systematic and sophisticated doping programme ever seen in the history of sport. How do MPs crash...
Obama in Israel: A Setback for Palestinian Aspirations
President Obama’s visit to Israel and to Palestine (the West Bank occupied territory), hailed in Washington as a turning point in American-Israeli relations, did not have the same resonance with Palestinians. In fact, it ...
Why the Arab League Needs to Step up its Political Presence
[twitter style=”horizontal” source=”@intlpolitical” float=”left”][fbshare type=”button”] If there was ever a time for the Arab League to step up its role in the region’s politic...
The Hypocrisy of Sexual Violence in Conflict Zones
With news of the last deployment of British troops of Afghanistan breaking last month it seems appropriate to look back at what has been, by all accounts, a highly contentious and controversial mission. Although these have been...
