The rank hypocrisy with which members of the Conservative party are standing up to praise Nelson Mandela is something that only those with a non-functioning manure detector can accept without feeling a degree of outrage. As Cam...
I seldom agree with David Cameron however several slip-ups by broadcasters with TV debates recently have changed my stance. Lord Michael Grade, ex-chairman of the BBC and ITV, was right in describing their proposals as “s...
… and shows the world what to expect from the next round of global negotiations in Paris 2015. After the EU summit in Brussels this Thursday and Friday, European leaders struck a new deal on climate change and energy poli...
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 ...
“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...
The rhetoric has been scaled-back. Potentially embarrassing Congressional votes have been avoided. Multinational conflict has (for now) become an unlikely possibility. In fact, since the chemical arms agreement with Syria was s...
Plato regarded social democracy as an immense concern. Aristotle called it a ‘deviant’ – the opposition to majority rule’s nobler version, the polity. In fact, throughout political philosophy’s history, influential sc...
It has taken one young person to finally catch the attention of the country and make them realise the urgency behind the need for school’s to have sex education. Yas Necati, 17, has spoken out against the lack of support ...