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WATCH: Putting Water Back in Public Hands
Defenders of privatisation argue that by opening a market to multiple suppliers who then compete to attract customers, you can reduce prices and improve product quality. But as any business student knows, markets don’t always...
When Chemical Weapons & Terrorist Groups Are Better Excuses
The last few weeks have been generous in events and catastrophes, from the Boston bombings to the Iraqi bloodshed, from the attack in Libya against the French embassy to the Somali terror wave and the Iranian devastating earthq...
Giants, Hackers, Trolls: Where Mythology and Online Activism Meet
Netizens have come to know a “troll” as ”someone who posts a deliberately provocative message” to fuel an argument online. That these inflammatory net users were labeled as “trolls” was no accident. The original m...
Unpaid Internships: The Only Route To Success?
Right under our noses a poisonous, if not deadly epidemic has struck. No it’s not the measles, its unpaid internships – and whose fault is it anyway? The education system, parliament and employers have all faced criticism,...
Scottish Independence: Is It Worth it?
The Scots’ usual response to George Osborne is that which he had to endure during his appearance at the Paralympics, yet on Tuesday he still went ahead and voiced his doubt about the viability of all the potential currenc...
WATCH: Global Sanitation – Let’s Talk Crap
In this TED talk, British journalist and author Rose George discusses – with enjoyable and necessary humour – diarrhoea and global sanitation. She offers some sobering statistics: 2.5 billion people – 40% of the world’s...
