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 […]


 
 
 

 

Hong Kong’s Civil Disobedience Campaign Seeks Inspiration from Martin Luther King

The anniversary of Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream…” speech was on August 28, 2013. Hong Kong local media outlets have given it quite large coverage because Martin Luther King’s civil disobedience campa...
by Oiwan Lam
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Giants, Hackers, Trolls: Where Mythology and Online Activism Meet

Netizens have come to know a “troll” as ”someone who posts a deliberately provocative message” to fuel an argument online. That these inflammatory net users were labeled as “trolls” was no accident. The original m...
by Global Voices
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Worldwide outrage over denationalisation of Dominicans of Haitian descent

Sentence No.168-2013 (PDF) [es], dictated by the Dominican Constitutional Court, has turned the international community on its head.  The polarisation within the country has also become more palpable, and debates seen in soci...
by Pamela Martínez Achecar
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The IPF is going to India!

Thank you to absolutely everyone for your amazing and overwhelming support! Natasha is one of five young entrepreneurs who have been chosen to meet Sir Richard Branson in India for her work on the IPF. Natasha will be joining...
by Natasha Lipman
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Daily News Roundup – 18 January 2013

Africa Mali military recapture Konna Mali’s army has recaptured the town of Konna from rebels, a week after France’s intervention. Reports say rebels were fleeing Konna, a central and strategically important town in the con...
by Tom Dunbar
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In Search of a European Idea

If you listen to European leaders today, one would think that the EU and European integration is all about money. How are we going to arrange the Multiannual Financial Framework in a way that everybody is happy, how will we sav...
by Gilles Pittoors
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