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 […]


 
 
 

 

The Destiny Of A Nation: An infographic on 9/11

Today marks the 11th anniversary of 9/11. There is no doubt the United States is indebted to our active duty military, veterans and their families for the tremendous sacrifices they’ve made (and continue to make) on our beha...
by Mike Myatt
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Portable, Potable Solutions to the World’s Water Crisis

Among the most important resources in the world, in terms of both human survival and global conflict, is potable drinking water. Access to clean drinking water is tangled up in nearly every health crisis around the world, and i...
by Urban Times
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Daily News Roundup – 16 July 2012

Europe Athletes arriving in London for Olympics With 11 days to go until the Olympic Games are to start, thousands of athletes and officials have begun arriving at London’s Heathrow airport, which is expecting its busiest day...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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World Cancer Awareness Day 2015

The beginning of 2015 was pointedly marked by Dr Richard Smith’s comment that cancer is the best way to die.The comment met with extraordinary backlash from researchers, charities, and the families and friends of those th...
by Abbie Saunders
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International Political Forum

Thai Coup Leads To Exodus Of More Than 180,000 Cambodian Migrant Workers

Hundreds of thousands of Cambodian migrant workers and their families have fled Thailand in the past two weeks after Thai coup leaders issued a warning that they will launch a crackdown against illegal foreign workers. Ac...
by Global Voices
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International Political Forum

ISIS Advances In Iraq Echoed In Bahrain

Top Bahrain government officials took to Twitter to show what is being perceived as support for the advances of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), a splinter group of the terror organisation Al Qaeda, in Iraq. On June ...
by Global Voices
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