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 […]


 
 
 

 

Martin Luther King Continues To Inspire 50 Years On

50 years ago on this day, Martin Luther King stood in front of over 200,000 people on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington and delivered the historical “I Have A Dream” speech. This speech would go on to ...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Football Beyond Borders Balkans Tour Day 6 – Sarajevo

Football Beyond Borders’ latest recruit, TransConflict contributor and SOAS Global Diplomacy student Heidi Green, gives her first impressions as we arrive into Sarajevo knowing that the tour effectively begins again here ...
by James Appleby
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This is not Islam

We in the West can all too easily believe that every Muslim wishes to kill in the name of religion. The protests that have swept across the Muslim world over the past several days are nothing to do with the inflammatory anti-Is...
by Gareth Lewis
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From Littering to Spitting: Sanitary Problems in India’s Public Spaces

Lack of hygiene in India’s public space is not a new occurrence. It has stayed in the country for many generations and continues to grow to this day, without people realizing that keeping their environment clean is a societ...
by Urban Times
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Oops He Did It Again

Republicans are subjecting themselves to more head banging following the news of another misstep by presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. A secretly taped video from a private reception back in May emerged showing Mr. Romney with ...
by Laura Casey
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International Political Forum

In the Shadow of Syria: Will Lebanon Soon be Shrouded?

With news reports flooding in highlighting the ever deepening involvement of Hezbollah in Bashar al-Assad’s struggle for Syria, the scenario which so many Lebanese feared appears to be on the brink of being realized. Conflict...
by Michael Brown
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