Immigration and population decline – Could America have the answer?
Europe have many intermediate and long term concerns, including two that are closely interlinked – immigration and population decline. A natural population decrease seems inevitable from Europe’s low...
View ArticleHappy Birthday Occupy Movement!
Happy First Birthday Occupy Movement! We have cake (organic of course) and everyone’s hanging out down the local park for a party! The Occupy Movement was born on September the 17th 2011 in Zuccotti...
View ArticleIs the European Union the only bad Nobel Peace Prize winner?
The Nobel Peace Prize has endured myriad controversies since its inception. The prevalent criticisms have been that awards have been politically motivated, premature, or based upon a very loose...
View ArticleAn American abroad: the presidential election
I am an MBA exchange student from The Ohio State University currently studying at Manchester Business School and this will be the second U.S. presidential election in which I will be outside of the...
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US Presidential elections – LIVE BLOG
15:48: Becky Montacute —States are starting to close their polling stations, Virginia’s closing soon, with a huge 13 electoral college votes. Actual stuff will happen soon! 15:48: Emma Bean...
View ArticleAn American abroad: Obama’s re-election
In assessing the implications of an additional term for President Barack Obama, it does help to look to his first. Yet, while a lot of Americans and Brits alike have criticized President Obama for...
View ArticleOpen letter to the British public: why don’t you want to be European?
Deciding to go to university in Britain and leaving home – Denmark, was one of the major decisions in my life. And I can honestly say that I have no regrets about it what so ever, I love Britain....
View ArticleThe shining light in Pakistan: Fifteen year old Malala’s Nobel Peace Prize...
The Nobel Prize for Peace is an award of the highest prestige, counting among its laureate Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela, and Aung San Suu Kyi. For the 2013 award, after her nomination by the Norwegian...
View ArticleNobody expects the Papal Resignation
You may not care enough about the affairs of Vatican City to endure the brief history lesson that I have in store for you, but I promise you that it eventually gets round to one of our favourite...
View ArticleYoung Brits’ drug use is fueling organised crime in West Africa
There’s a disparity between the way we choose what we buy in stores, and what we buy on the streets. As a result, one of the world’s most deprived areas is being plunged further into violence and...
View ArticleOur attitude to piracy is all wrong
On the 28th of February, in a move similar to that taken against the Pirate, the High Court ordered six broadband suppliers including BskyB, BT and Virgin Media to block access to three major file...
View ArticleTo veil or not to veil?
A single human rights issue has come to the fore in every public institution over the last week. From hospitals, to the courtroom, to schools the wearing of the niqab, or full-face veil, by some...
View Article‘A Princess Is Made Not Born’
This week the upper house of the French parliament passed a piece of legislation aimed at criminalising children’s beauty pageants, so called ‘Mini-Miss’ competitions on the grounds that they are...
View ArticleThe Pussy Riot incarceration, repeated abuses of civil liberties and now...
Russia has been in the news for all the wrong reasons over the past two years. The imprisonment of the feminist punk band Pussy Riot after an allegedly ‘blasphemous’ impromptu performance in a Moscow...
View ArticleWe live in a surveillance state and no one cares
Many of us have expressed apathy and unconcern with the prospect of being spied on. Hell, we’ve got nothing to hide. It doesn’t matter that you are being monitored every second of every day. The major...
View ArticleFacebook: the new King Maker
At the beginning of this month Facebook celebrated its 10th anniversary, but while celebrations where in order for Mark Zuckerberg and co, human rights activists and political journalists alike had...
View ArticleThe UK sits at the beating heart of global tax haven culture
Any sentence with the word tax in it usually has the effect of making people instantly switch off or quickly lose interest. However, if you haven’t already stopped reading perhaps you should bare with...
View ArticleIf Russia is ‘anti-gay’ then so is America
The Sochi Winter Olympics came to an explosive end on the 23rd of February. Yet despite boasting the highest medal count, Russia’s reputation has been damaged and its achievements overshadowed by the...
View ArticleSex trafficking is still thriving in the UK
You may not know that the award-winning action-thriller “Taken” is closer to fact than fiction. We watch it and find it utterly terrifying, but perhaps subconsciously see it as a fairy story. It is,...
View ArticleThe Criminal Negligence of Non-Intervention
It is clear that humanitarian aid is needed to counter the Islamic State (IS). It is of the utmost importance that aid is given in order to, or at the very least, allow for the restoration of the Iraqi...
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