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 […]


 
 
 

 

Deny Climate Change? Not for Much Longer {Video}

This Public Service Announcement from British television series “The Armstrong and Miller Show” shows what can happen to you if you deny climate change just because it’s a little rainy… …and yes, w...
by Natasha Lipman
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Matt Damon’s (Toilet Water) Bucket Challenge Highlights Sanitation Issues

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 am...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Romania: observing modern feudalism. Part two: the clergy

On the 29th of July, a referendum was held in Romania regarding the removal from office of President Traian Basescu. This is the second attempt of the ‘Social-Liberal’ alliance (USL) to get rid of Basescu, and it has specta...
by Tiberiu Dodan
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WATCH: Russell Brand Bares the Hugo Boss Company’s Murky History

At the GQ magazine’s Men of the Year awards, Russell Brand made some comments about event sponsor, Hugo Boss, which resulted with him being thrown out of the after-show. The comments were to do with Hugo Boss’s past dealing...
by Ozlem Unat
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Daily News Roundup – 9 January 2013

  Africa Nato forces needed in Mali, says African Union The African Union’s chairman Thomas Boni Yayi has called for Nato to send forces to Mali to help fight militant Islamists who have captured the north.  The Malian conf...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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International Political Forum

Business As Usual

The Snowden revelations have cause us to re-examine our internet freedom and right to self-privacy. The far reaching surveillance by the National Security Agency and the rest of the Five Eyes (Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealan...
by Andrew Herweg
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