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 […]


 
 
 

 

Banks and Beaches: 40 Years of Banking and Finance in the Cayman Islands

When one hears a reference to the Cayman Islands, it is normally in connection with criminal activity: drugs, money laundering, and tax evasion. This tiny territory in the western Caribbean has earned quite a reputation – one...
by Donovon Kellyman
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David Cameron Urgently Needs To Bring Sex Ed Into The 21st Century

It has taken one young person to finally catch the attention of the country and make them realise the urgency behind the need for school’s to have sex education. Yas Necati, 17, has spoken out against the lack of support ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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International Political Forum

The ‘Let Toys be Toys’ Campaign: The fight to end “gendered” toy marketing

The issue of “gendered toys” has plagued the media recently as people are coming out on both sides of the debate to discuss why there seem to be only two aisles at toy stores: “girl’s toys” and “boy’s toys...
by Katie O'Reilly-Boyles
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International Political Forum

Climate Change Vulnerability in the ‘South’

Africa has contributed the least to global warming among the seven continents, but it is the worst affected by climate change effects and this is projected to get even worse in the future. Adaptation to climate change has faced...
by Daniel Wasonga
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International Political Forum

Water as Our Life Blood: Climate change in South America

Water is life, and it too is being threatened by global warming. The threat to water is much more than droughts and flooding, although it includes those problems also. The threat to water also means rising temperatures in the o...
by Allison Midori Reilly
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Daily News Roundup – 7 January 2013

  Asia Chinese newspaper journalists in rare strike Journalists at a major Chinese paper, the Southern Weekly, have gone on strike in a rare protest against censorship.  The row was sparked last week when the paper’s Ne...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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