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 […]


 
 
 

 
International Political Forum

A Guide To India’s General Elections 2014

India represents the largest democracy in the world. The country has an asymmetric federal government, with elected officials at the federal, state and local levels. The head of government, the prime minister, is elected by the...
by Rezwan
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World Press Freedom Day: Why journalists fear for their safety

Too many journalists are paying with their lives for keeping society informed. Each week, on average, a journalist dies while doing his or her job. Yet, over the past 10 years, only 1 in 10 cases of crimes against journalists, ...
by Natasha Lipman
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Divided by the Attila Line: The Importance of Cyprus to the EU

The island of Cyprus, home to both the Republic of Cyprus and the self-styled TRNC, is in many ways a microcosm of the difficulties facing the EU, both in terms of seeking solutions to economic crisis and with regards to the EU...
by Wilf Mortimer
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Egypt: All The News That’s Unfit To Print

In 2013, Egypt was ranked 158 out of 178 countries in the annual Reporters Without Borders Freedom Index.  This troubling ranking is a reflection of the Egyptian Armed Forces and the Muslim Brotherhood both of which have commi...
by Daniel Weiner
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A Pope-Mortem

The story on everyone’s lips, and twitter feeds, is the stunning revelation that Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger) has called an end to an almost eight year reign at the helm of the Catholic Church, citing the fact that hi...
by Urban Times
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South Africa: A Crisis of Leadership, or Corruption as Usual?

A grouping of opposition parties in the South African parliament led by the official opposition the Democratic Alliance recently proposed a debate to pass a vote of no confidence in the leadership of current South African Presi...
by Gillion Bosman
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