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 […]


 
 
 

 
International Political Forum

Still Unsustainable; Nairobi

Changing weather patterns! Ozone layer depletion! Melting ice caps! This has been the alarming news across the globe last few years. When climate change became a public concern a few years back, the media presented Kenya with t...
by Fridah Mlemwa
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International Political Forum

The New European Parliament: Opening Statements

Last Wednesday in Strasbourg we saw our first real glimpse of how the next session of the European Parliament will play out over the next 5 years. The leaders of each of the seven revamped political groups in the Plenary, and a...
by Oscar Isham
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Daily News Roundup – 22 November 2012

Africa M23 rebels dispel requests to withdraw from key city The M23 rebels in the DR Congo have refused to leave the city of Goma, saying they will “stay […] waiting for negotiations”.  The request to leave the territory...
by Tom Dunbar
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International Political Forum

Why Some Minorities In France Vote For The Far-Right Political Party Front National

[All links lead to French-language pages unless otherwise stated] When France’s Eurosceptic right-wing Front National (FN) party topped the country’s polls in last month’s European elections, it had its hardl...
by Global Voices
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Presidents, Oligarchs and Potash: Russia’s Trade War With Belarus

At first glance, there are no truer friends than Russia and Belarus. The two states are united by a common history and have strong ethnic and linguistic links. Russia has long subsidized her neighbor with cheap oil and gas, wh...
by Daniel Kennedy
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Ice Bucket Challenge, meet Ukraine’s ‘blood bucket’ challenge

A group of European youths are attempting to draw attention to the conflict in Ukraine by putting a gory twist on the infamous Ice Bucket Challenge. This time around, the buckets are filled with metaphorical blood.
by Tetyana Lokot
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