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 […]


 
 
 

 

International day of commemoration in memory of the victims of the holocaust

Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. “Holocaust” is a word of Greek origin meaning “sacrifice by fire...
by Sneha Nanavati
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Syria: Banksy’s crude politics

Banksy’s video satirizing the Syrian civil war, entitled “Rebel Rocket Attack,” left Syrians and keen watchers of the conflict confused and disappointed. The video, released on October 6, has since been viewed by over fiv...
by Nour Al-Ali
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Battling The Autism Stigma This October

October is Autism Awareness Month. And I think it’s important that we take a few minutes to think about that. Being a child can be difficult. Not one of us can say we had an entirely easy childhood, free of bullying and p...
by Priyanka Mogul
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International Political Forum

Is Sex An Effective Tool For Empowerment?

Sexuality has occasionally been employed by women as a campaigning tool for gender equality. This has been manifested numerous times in campaigns such as SlutWalk, which aims to fight against the notion that women ought to be ...
by Josie Poulter
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Social Experiment Shows Us How Invisible The Homeless Have Become

Would you recognise your wife if you walked by her on the street? What about your sister or your brother? Or your grandmother? A group of people volunteered to disguise themselves as homeless. They then had their unsuspecting r...
by Priyanka Mogul
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