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 […]


 
 
 

 

Daily News Roundup – 8 August 2012

  Europe Standard Chartered shares recover Shares in British bank Standard Chartered have rebounded after their steepest one-day decline in decades.  The crash came as New York’s State Department of Financial Services a...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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What’s Up With The Hong Kong Protests? An Outsider’s Perspective…

The events that have been unfolding in Hong Kong lately probably have left many,  especially in the West, wondering what’s up with this city that has long been considered a bridge and melting pot between East and West. A...
by Mathias Einberger
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Disorder On The Nile As Power Shifts Towards Ethiopia

Since the fall of Mubarak, Egypt’s political instability and internal strife have severely weakened its once hegemonic status among the East African states. This has seen its neighbours, most notably Ethiopia, begin to outrig...
by Marc Scarisbrick
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Opening the Future of Friendship: Northeast Asia must learn from lessons of WW2

At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
by Yaerin Ku
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Armenia’s Power Shortage: A Lesson For A Post-Fossil Fuel Age?

Through a combination of renewable energy, power conservation and using 12-volt systems, households could significantly reduce their power usage and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Abovyan Street, which leads into Yerevan’s ...
by David Lawrence
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What Assange did for Climate Change

With all eyes on the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and the UK government’s looming (possible) extradition of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, activists await the next move. Using the Internet, Julian Assange lit the match th...
by Yara Al Wazir
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