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Why we love The Queen, and why I am saying thank you

This long Jubilee weekend, peoples all around the world are celebrating the 60 glorious years that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has reigned over the United Kingdom and indeed the Commonwealth. But it is not only a celebration...

by Max Kuhnke

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Sunshine Strategy Looking Overcast

The tone of the campaign against Scottish independence hit a new low this month. With the polls narrowing recently and voters becoming turned off by the “Better Together” group’s negative campaigning, several senior figur...

by Angus Millar

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Fascism: A Very Un-English Ideology

Less attention should be paid to Stephen Lennon, or ‘Tommy Robinson’ – the mumbling, spitting, uncharismatic captain of the English Defence League (EDL), for he is irrelevant and full of empty rhetoric. Is it just the min...

by James Lemons

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Why Do We Call It Middle East?

Without realizing it, you are accustomed to the Eurocentric view of the world map: Europe is in the middle of the atlas and all other continents are gathered around. You don’t even question it, because this is how we were tau...

by Paula Munteanu

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Erasmus+: Towards The Cultural Union Of Europe

On November 19th, the European Parliament voted in favour of Erasmus+—the new EU funding programme for education, training, work and sport abroad proposed by the European Commission. From January 2014, more than 4 million peo...

by Mauro Anastasio

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Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

VIDEO LINK: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/19/700-migrants-feared-dead-mediterranean-shipwreck-worst-yet As the voyage for seeking a better life for many migrants led them to their untimely death in the Mediterranean...

by Paridhi Singh

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Can We Bank On The Big Society?

Several years ago, the idea that thousands of UK citizens would be dependent on food banks for their survival would have been almost inconceivable. Hunger is not something that is allowed to happen in Great Britain, right? Howe...

by Naomi Hanna

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Europe And Separatism: First Crimea, Now Venice. Will Scotland And Catalonia Also Vote For Independence?

The recent referendum in Crimea and the subsequent annexation of the peninsula by Russia has captured much of world’s attention of late. It has also ignited discussions about secessionism in Europe, which is quite relevant ...

by John Haltiwanger

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The Conciliatory Handshake Between Former First World War Enemies

How differently the Old Continent looked a century ago! The British Empire on which “the sun never sets”; the imperialistic Germany which, as Kaiser Wilhelm II proudly claimed, was looking for “their place under the sun�...

by Kasia Gilewska

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Why we love The Queen, and why I am saying thank you

Sunshine Strategy Looking Overcast

Fascism: A Very Un-English Ideology

Why Do We Call It Middle East?

Erasmus+: Towards The Cultural Union Of Europe

Death by Omission: African migration tragedy in the Mediterranean and the European Union

Can We Bank On The Big Society?

Europe And Separatism: First Crimea, Now Venice. Will Scotland And Catalonia Also Vote For Independence?

The Conciliatory Handshake Between Former First World War Enemies

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