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 […]


 
 
 

 
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Is Christianity perishing in the Middle East?

Christianity’s Holy Book, The Bible, is replete with the history, stories of the Jews, other people and places of the Middle East from early civilisation to the Romans. Among several Biblical stories are those of the birth of...
by Samson Faboye
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Grexit: How has the Greek debt crisis really affected its citizens?

In recent years, Greece’s place in the Eurozone has been an example of how severe economic debt can detrimentally affect global and European financial markets. Currently, we’re waiting for a draft of the bailout deal to be ...
by Beth Harris
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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...
by Aidan Liban
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Caitlyn Jenner: The figurehead the Trans community deserves?

The dust has finally began to settle on Caitlyn Jenner’s transition to womanhood. Through the snippets of carefully choreographed dialogue, we have finally started to see Jenner’s role in shining light on transgende...
by Vincent Gillan
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Opening the Future of Friendship: Northeast Asia must learn from lessons of WW2

At the end of World War II vast swathes of Europe and Asia had been reduced to rubble. Borders were redrawn and homecomings, expulsions, and burials were underway as life goes on for those who survived the Great War. When the w...
by Yaerin Ku
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Floyd Mayweather: Deeper than the money

For Floyd Mayweather Jr., the number 48 symbolises his solidified status as the best fighter of his generation. For Manny Pacquiao, perhaps it’s a fatalistic sign to choose an ironically simpler path into politics. But person...
by Tommy Rufai
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