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 Political Forum

Alien in Lebanon: Why I Can Never Call My Country Home

A month ago, I was having dinner with my friends. I don’t know how in so many years of friendship we still manage to always stumble upon topics that we have never discussed before. On that night one of my friends was caught o...
by Lama Miri
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International Political Forum

A Living Wage for the Nation

Last week, in a speech to the left wing think tank the Resolution Foundation, Rachel Reeves the UK MP for Leeds West, and Labour’s Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury; set out her parties ‘One Nation Labour’ approa...
by James Walker
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WATCH: Putting Water Back in Public Hands

Defenders of privatisation argue that by opening a market to multiple suppliers who then compete to attract customers, you can reduce prices and improve product quality. But as any business student knows, markets don’t always...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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50Days4Gaza: Narrating Palestine’s loss through personal experience and comedy

It is estimated that Israel’s’ Operation Protective Edge that was launched in July 2014 and lasted for 50 days has resulted in the displacement of over 106,000 Palestinians. When reading statistics about refugees and displa...
by Anjuli Borgonha
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Fukushima and the health impact of Japan’s nuclear policy

More than three years have passed since Japan’s now-infamous nuclear power plant Fukushima Dai-ichi experienced a meltdown following an earthquake and subsequent tsunami in March 2011.
by Abbie Saunders
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International Political Forum

Media Freedom – At The Heart Of The Post-2015 Framework?

World nations are gearing up for a new set of goals as the clock ticks towards the 2015 deadline for the Millennium Development Goals. Among the discussion for what the world’s new aims and objectives should be is the issue o...
by Priyanka Mogul
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