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 […]


 
 
 

 

In my humble opinion, on Mona Eltahawy’s ‘Why do they hate us’

I too can sit from my ivory tower and tell the world that the Middle East is a dandy place to live in as a woman, but I have no right to claim that a woman only 100 miles away having her body parts ripped out in the name of god...
by Ola Abou-Khsaiwan
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“Morally Indefensible” British Foreign Policy

In an open letter, Sayeeda Warsi took the bold move of resigning from her position as a minister in Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). She said her decision was a result of the government’s policy on the rece...
by Ved Menon
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Daily News Roundup – 19 November 2012

  Asia US President Obama hails Burma’s ‘remarkable journey’ Burma is on a “remarkable journey” of reform but has much further to go, Barack Obama has said as he made the first visit to the South East Asian natio...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Torture And The CIA: An Examination Of The Senate Intelligence Committee Report

The recent publishing of a report by the Senate Intelligence Committee has caused a storm in Washington, and a flurry of worldwide political and public reactions. In the wake of the revelations that the CIA, under the auspices ...
by Simon Fraser
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Red scars and reconstruction: A life in the day of Samithy Chhom, survivor of the Khmer Rouge

Samithy Chhom was growing up a ward of the Royal Household when Phnom Penh fell to the armed forces of the Khmer Rouge. The year was 1975, and the capture of the capital saw the culmination of Pol Pot’s seven year nationwide ...
by Gareth Lewis
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