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Image description: Boris Johnson speaking while sitting at a desk, in the background is a large UK flag PROPOSITION (Ciara Garcha) Plans to create a breakaway European Super League were likened to a “cartel” by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who assured fans that the government would not stand by while a small handful of owners […]
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Is there a global turn to the far-right? To call this “global” is true, but the implication that this is inevitable for most established democracies throughout the world is not. What is “global” about this is that the conditions that must be met are largely the same: a lack of trust in public institutions, a […]
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Last week, an intriguing newsflash on Indian national television about an unplanned PM Modi address was followed by an announcement that left the country flabbergasted. Without warning, the Indian government decided to scrap the 500 Rupee (just under £6) and 1000 Rupee (just under £12) bills in a bid to clamp down on “black money” […]
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Argentina is the land of broken promise. With vast tracts of land and unexploited resources, this nation should have been able to build herself into an economic powerhouse. Yet a 20th century wracked by bitter political division and economic disaster have reduced Argentina to a shadow of its potential. Nowhere is this clearer than in […]
Continue ReadingEdward Lucas, the International Editor of The Economist, talks to Michael Scott about Russian spies, corruption, and why Britain needs to stop joining in.
Continue ReadingKorean squatters, dirty judges and racism -and this is not the plot to some new ITV drama called EDL Housing Court. It is, instead, the Games of the XXX Olympiad. What better way to spend our brief respite from academia -recovering from monstrous fact-cramming sessions and post-exam inebriation – than to stay glued to our screens with […]
Continue ReadingAruna Roy discusses the tremendous bravery needed and the hope given by those who against the odds run for election amidst the corrupt chaos of Indian electoral politics in order to further the struggle against injustice.
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