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 […]


 
 
 

 

There are 7 Billion People in the World: How Typical Are You? {Video}

A world of 7 billion people poses many challenges, and countless opportunities to make a positive difference. This great video from National Geographic shows the world’s most typical person…where do you stand?! Scro...
by Natasha Lipman
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International Political Forum

Footballers After Football: The Sustainability of the Game & Potential Gains for the British Government

Footballers after football – financially set for life, attractive wife, worshipped by thousands after a career living every boy’s dream. What could possibly go wrong? Well, recent studies show that quite a lot can, and ...
by Jack Gregory
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Daily News Roundup – 2 July 2012

  Europe Barclays chairman quits after libor scandal  Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays plc, has quit the bank today after five and a half years following revelations that some of the bank’s traders tried to manipu...
by Richard Scott-Jones
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DAILY NEWS ROUNDUP – 12 JULY 2012

  Africa NGOs make camp appeal in Somalia Aid agencies have made an appeal for aid to fund a camp in Dadaab, where nearly 400,000 people are seeking refuge. They claim that the world’s largest refugee camp is running out...
by Tom Dunbar
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WATCH: 11-Year-Old Yemeni Girl “would rather die than get married at this age”

A video uploaded to YouTube of 11 year old Nada Al-Ahdal from Yemen has been doing the rounds the last few days. In the video Nada talks about how she has to run away from home in order to avoid being married off by her parents...
by Natasha Lipman
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International Political Forum

WATCH: The True Cost of Coal

Jharia lies in India’s eastern state of Jharkhand and is India’s largest coal mining region supplying 67% of India’s electricity. For more than eighty years now fires have been burning underground on its coal ...
by Nicky Armstrong
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