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SPOTLIGHT
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Labour Economics: Economy in 2020
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The UK response to the “refugee crisis” is theoretically sound but practically counterproductive
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Athletics’ Quick Fix: How the politics of doping is taking athletics to the brink of ruin
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The fall of oil and the environment
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Rufgee crisis: Lessons David Cameron can learn from Lebanon’s example
Economy
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 […]
Europe
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”. […]
Green
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 – 7 August 2012
Europe Standard Chartered shares crash after allegations of laundering with Iran Shares in Standard Chartered have fallen 15% in early London trade this morning despite the bank’s denial that it illegally “schemed”...
3rd Arab Water Week: A Chance To End The Global Rhetoric On Clean Drinking Water
The shortage of clean drinking water is a growing global issue, with almost a billion people living without adequate freshwater resources around the world.
Daily News Roundup – 15 January 2013
Africa France to deploy more troops to Mali French President Francois Holland says more troops are to be sent to Mali to support the 750 already in the country fighting an Islamist insurgency. Mr Holland said the latest ov...
The new era of presidential campaigning
When Hillary Clinton officially launched her campaign for president via Twitter it set off a media spark. For decades, the consensus was that running a successful presidential campaign meant speaking at town hall meetings an...
WATCH: Because I am a Girl
Girls born in some of the most poorest regions in the world will be one of the most disadvantaged people on earth. Globally 1 in 5 girls (that’s 66 million) are denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, viole...