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 […]


 
 
 

 

Was Violent Crime Reduced Unintentionally?

Crime, particularly in its most violent form, is perhaps the most political of topics. Few issues can spark more lively debates than policing and imprisonment, punishment and rehabilitation. At any given election all parties wi...
by Daniel Cavanillas
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International Political Forum

The Drama Of A Refugee Town

“There’s certainly no greater pain than losing one’s homeland,” said Euripedes (431 a.c.). In more than 2000 years, history has proved him right countless times. Losing your homeland in most cases, not only strips one f...
by Daniele Bassi
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 3 SEPTEMBER 2012

Europe International uproar as Azeri Murderer released The Azeri, Ramil Safarov, has been released after being deported to Azerbaijan from Hungary, where he killed an Armenian in 2004. Local media reports say Safarov was welcom...
by Tom Dunbar
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International Political Forum

The Other Dream

August 28th marked 50 years since Dr Martin Luther King, jr. stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and explained his dream; an America in which his children would not face the same barriers he did due to the colour of thei...
by Victoria Briggs
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President Obama’s Call For “A Better Politics”

Author’s Note: This article shall seek to analyse the division between Republicans and Democrats in the US government vis-a-vis the evolution of political dysfunction in the US Congress in addition to examining the truth ...
by Apratim Vidyarthi
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International Political Forum

Neither War Nor Peace

As separatists in Eastern Ukraine hoist new Donetsk Republic flags over captured government buildings, Russia masses 40,000 troops along the Ukrainian border, and the Ukrainian acting President puts his nation’s forces on com...
by Cole Pearce
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