Jorge Carbajal looks at the recent situation in Libya – and puts it in terms that anyone can use to make it look like they’re a pro on the subject…
Politics
Conflict
June 26, 2011
This article was written in the midst of the second round of Peru’s presidential election season. By the time of its publication, the elections will have already taken place and a new regime will be governing my country.
Lines
June 26, 2011
A grown-up, open discussion about drugs needs to take place. Mylo Scurr is the one to do it – taking a step back and looking at the facts as policies deteriorate around us.
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June 26, 2011
Berlusconi: Sexist Pig or Just Italian? Josephine Harmon sets her sights on taking him down…
Maksymilian Fus Mickiewicz’s A Tribal Culture
March 11, 2011
Speaking to The Zahir, Miriam Ross, press officer of the London-based NGO Survival International, describes her own battle with the Botswana government to protect the alternative way of life the Kalahari Bushmen have chosen to lead. Their mission statement is simple: to protect marginalised people’s rights. Those in opposition range from corporations looking to grab [...]
Eleanor Howe and Dario Traum’s A Swamp Full of Dollars
March 11, 2011
Nigeria’s environment is gradually being destroyed by greed. On top of political instability, conflict, poverty, corruption, inadequate infrastructure and poor macroeconomic management, the country is also tormented by an environmental problem of catastrophic proportions, a problem that has continued relatively unnoticed for decades. It stems from the maze of pipelines riddling the landscape. These pipes [...]
Jim Conway on Crisis and Cuts: Public Sector Incentive or Public Nightmare?
March 11, 2011
There is a debate that has raged ever since the explosion of capitalism from industrialisation over 200 years ago. Since then millions of workers have lost their jobs and millions of companies have gone bust. The question of the last 200 hundred years is this: how do we deal with economic crises? Now as much [...]
Leena Sobahi on The Uprise of Arab Spirit
March 11, 2011
For decades, many Arab populations have been the victims of harsh political regimes, ones that have restricted change and basic universal rights like freedom of speech and democracy. They are lumbered with the same immovable leaders and taught to say only what is expected of them, otherwise, as is commonly understood, ‘You won’t live to [...]
Josephine Harmon’s It’s Not Easy Being Green
March 11, 2011
In his recent talk, Adrian Ramsay’s Great Matter was inevitably his struggle to free himeslf of the Greens’ reputation as single-minded. The talk largely comprised discussion of environmentalist issues, bizarrely interspersed with comments on wider contemporary issues like the economic crisis – as if both were intimately inter-connected. The Greens’ name and image exposes them [...]
A life with my Dad and Daddy – Josephine Rust
June 18, 2010
Josephine Rust tackles LGBT adoption Recently a Catholic adoption agency won the right to be exempted from legislation which would have forced it to consider homosexual couples as parents. Catholic Care, which serves the dioceses of Leeds, Middlesbrough, and Hallam in South Yorkshire, claimed it would be forced to stop its work finding homes for [...]
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