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 […]


 
 
 

 

People’s Climate March: A Strategic Action Before UN Climate Summit

Almost 40,000 people marched the streets of London yesterday as one of the largest events of People’s Climate March took place in the capital. Aiming to protest political divestment from the fossil fuel industry and stop ...
by Tímea Fazekas
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Daily News Roundup – 15 August 2012

  Europe Standard Chartered settles with New York regulator over Iran deals British bank Standard Chartered has agreed a $340m (£217m) settlement with the New York State Department of Financial Services over its recent ac...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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Jerusalem: a city at war

President Obama and the US Democratic Convention took the unprecedented step of recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. This comes in the aftermath of the racist anti-Palestinian statements by the Republican candidate M...
by Nadim Souss
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WATCH: How a skyscraper became the world’s tallest slum

Centro Financiero Confinanzas, widely know as Torre de David (Tower of David) is the worlds tallest slum. This unfinished skyscraper, in Venezuela’s capital city Caracas, has become a monument to the failed system when c...
by Nicky Armstrong
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How Far Can The Law Protect Us?

The law is supposed to dispense justice, both for the accused and for their victims. But in a flawed world with legal loopholes and “ordinary” criminals, we must confront the possibility that horror can become reali...
by Shehrazade Zafar-Arif
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International Political Forum

London Bucks The Trend, Again.

People living outside the nation’s capital were asked recently what words best describe London to them. ‘Crowded’ was the first, ‘Expensive’ the second, and ‘Cosmopolitan’ the third. The question was part of a ...
by Oscar Isham
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