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

The Conciliatory Handshake Between Former First World War Enemies

How differently the Old Continent looked a century ago! The British Empire on which “the sun never sets”; the imperialistic Germany which, as Kaiser Wilhelm II proudly claimed, was looking for “their place under the sun...
by Kasia Gilewska
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Identity Crisis? – Cricket and Multiculturalism

As England and India clash this summer it is worth considering whether the loyalties of British-born Asians tell us something about the deeper issues of identity and integration in modern, multicultural Britain. Alongside Enoch...
by Kishan Koria
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International Political Forum

The Current Economic Model: A Destructive Social Construct?

As the world witnesses an Ebola outbreak that has been hyped by the media as the next Black Plague, we are left to wonder why the problem of climate change doesn’t attract as much attention. Unarguably, climate change is real...
by Apratim Vidyarthi
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Palestine’s Version Of The Ice Bucket Challenge

Over the last couple of weeks the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has created a storm on social media, with thousands of people posting videos of themselves being soaked in ice water as a campaign to create awareness about the amyotr...
by Priyanka Mogul
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Disenfranchised Behind Bars

“The right to vote is a fundamental human right”… “Prisoners give up their right to vote when they commit criminal offences”. The cyclical debate is endless; but should prisoners denied this right be awarded compe...
by Stefanie Mair
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International Political Forum

Banalizing Terrorism

When the horrible images of the twin tower attacks invaded our TV sets in 2001, everyone, for the first time, became familiar with a few Arab names such as Al-Qaeda, Osama bin-Laden, and a word not that often used before. That ...
by Daniele Bassi
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