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 […]


 
 
 

 

We’re Looking for an Intern!

The International Political Forum is a platform for young people around the world to make their voices heard. We are rapidly gaining international recognition as the go-to place for politically engaged, globally minded young pe...
by Natasha Lipman
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Chief Spence Ends Her Hunger Strike; Can Idle No More Survive?

Last week, Chief Theresa Spence announced that she was ending her six-week-long hunger strike which began on December 11. Chief Spence initially started the strike in protest against the Canadian government’s latest omnibus...
by Urban Times
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Silent No More: Lebanon’s Migrants Fight the Kafala System

On the 14th of March 2012, a woman named Alem Dechasa committed suicide by hanging herself in her room at Der El-Salib mental hospital. Four days prior, as witnessed by an amateur video, she was kidnapped by her owner, her ma...
by Joey Ayoub
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Daily News Roundup – 25 July 2012

  Europe Recession in UK deepens Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that theUK’s economic output fell by 0.7% in Q2 this year.  This contraction is bigger than expected, and was at...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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WATCH: Stop The Traffik In The Red Light District

According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, human trafficking has become “the fastest growing means by which people are enslaved, the fastest growing international crime, and one of the largest sources of income for or...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Africa’s Resources: Blessing or Curse?

Sometimes I sit back and wonder whether we Africans are cursed or blessed. In particular, are our natural resources a blessing or a curse? Despite the plentiful resources in the continent of Africa, its people are living in abj...
by Joe Wilson
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