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 […]


 
 
 

 

EU Accounts: Are the Eurosceptics Right?

One of the arguments most used by eurosceptics is the fact that the European Court of Auditors (ECA) has refused to sign off the European Union’s accounts for the 18th year in a row. That does sound like a pretty devastating ...
by Thomas Bignal
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The Power of Vaccines [Infographic]

Every 20 seconds a child dies from a vaccine preventable disease. That’s over 1.5 million children a year. Today marks the beginning of World Immunisation Week. an initiative run by the United Nations Foundation to raise ...
by Natasha Lipman
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WATCH: Russell Brand Bares the Hugo Boss Company’s Murky History

At the GQ magazine’s Men of the Year awards, Russell Brand made some comments about event sponsor, Hugo Boss, which resulted with him being thrown out of the after-show. The comments were to do with Hugo Boss’s past dealing...
by Ozlem Unat
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International Political Forum

The European Union: What Happens Now?

When the last polling stations closed in Italy on Sunday night, it had already been clear that the elections turned out to be just what had been expected. Despite the first time front-runners had been declared for the main part...
by Michel Scholer
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WATCH: Ellie Goulding’s #Song4Syria

Pop icon Ellie Goulding has released her single “I Know You Care” in support of Syria’s children – children who have watched their peers die, children who are starving, children who have been forced to f...
by Priyanka Mogul
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From Ha’penny to Hashtag: How the Internet and social media can make the UK elections less about donations

2010’s election was known as the “internet election”, with more use of online polling and digital campaigns than ever before. However I think it’s safe to say that internet usage, particularly social media, has become e...
by Katie O'Reilly-Boyles
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