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 […]


 
 
 

 

Kenyan Elections: Perspectives from an Inadvertently Unregistered Voter

March 4th will be an historic day for Kenya. We will be electing the president under a new constitutional dispensation. In addition to the president’s post, Kenyans will be selecting the candidates that they want to fill five...
by Eunice Kilonzo
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Hormone Replacement Therapy: The Dangers And The Alternatives

The dangers of Hormone Replacement Therapy have flooded news headlines in recent weeks with new statistics suggesting that HRT increases the risk of ovarian cancer in women. Studies showed one extra case of ovarian cancer per 1...
by Abbie Saunders
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COP18: When did we stop caring?

Every year, there’s a new round of climate change negotiations. Another meeting where we fail to set emissions that will prevent catastrophic climate change. And the global community seems to care less about nothing happening...
by Jeremiah Brown
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Today I Converted to “Islam”

I was “born a Muslim” so to speak. Some of you know my parents; they are “chill parents”. They encouraged me to read relentlessly. Also to argue with them annoyingly about everything the minute I could do so. Our discus...
by Mohamed Firas Arfaoui
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Palestine’s Version Of The Ice Bucket Challenge

Over the last couple of weeks the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has created a storm on social media, with thousands of people posting videos of themselves being soaked in ice water as a campaign to create awareness about the amyotr...
by Priyanka Mogul
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International Political Forum

China-Africa Relations: From Asymmetrical Dependence to Symmetrical Interdependence

Notwithstanding the increase of trade between China and the African Union countries in the last decade, and the large number of Chinese investments in Africa, these relations are mostly to the advantage of the Chinese and thei...
by Ahmed Alqarout
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