Junior Jihadis: A New Era For Child Soldiers?
We are inundated with stories of children crossing continents to join the battle and to help to establish a caliphate.
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
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 […]
All That Glitters: Tunisian Democratic Exception?
Media coverage of the MENA region is plagued by blanket statements and superficial analyses. International news outlets reserve even the right to name events. The so-called ‘Arab Spring’ is an example of a de facto ...
Worst 5 Human Rights Violations Of 2014
Today marks World Human Rights Day. Unfortunately, the term “human rights” is often associated with the violation of human rights, rather than the advancement of it. Although 2014 has seen many successes in variou...
Top 5 Human Rights Successes Of 2014
Today marks World Human Rights Day. However, in today’s world, the term “human rights” often takes a somber tone. As we look back on 2014, it’s disappointing to note the sheer number of high profile h...
Can we export this Canary Island energy self-sufficiency plan?
Since last summer, El Hierro, in the Canary Islands, is the first island in the world with a project working to make it energy self-sufficient. A hybrid hydro-wind generation system is currently working to provide the island ...
Beirut’s Road Block To Sustainability
A highway construction project put on the back-burner for more than thirty years is to be implemented if Beirut’s municipality gets its way. The decision to use a proposal to alleviate traffic in the congested Beirut neighbor...