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LATEST ARTICLES ( 77 )

• I Thought the Blurred Lines Song Was About Rape.

  

  The song is at least a trigger.I listened to it first a while ago, saw the naked girls and the clothed guys, and heard some pretty awful, rapey stuff:I know... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY, WOMEN'S ISSUES

• I Thought the Blurred Lines Song Was About Rape. I Still Want It Banned Though...

  I listened to it first a while ago, saw the naked girls and the clothed guys, and heard some pretty awful, rapey stuff: I know you want it I'll give you... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• 45 Years and One Day Ago, ‘Masacre En Tlatelolco, 2 De Octubre 1968′

  It’s pretty much forgotten. There are still protestors in prison for this – http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2007/10/03/index.php?section=politica article=011n1pol Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Arbitrary and Unlimited Power, Thrown Away

  

  The monarch’s job is to continue arbitrary and unlimited power, and hand most of it over to government. In 2003, Blair used this to declare war on Iraq without... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Arbitrary and Unlimited Power, Thrown Away

  The monarch's job is to continue arbitrary and unlimited power, and hand most of it over to government. In 2003, Blair used this to declare war on Iraq without... Read more

  Posted on 24 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• German Election 2013

  Edit 2: Merkel won by landslide. Her speech: "Heute wird gefeiert - morgen wird gearbeitet." (Today we celebrate, tomorrow we work). Edit: Merkel set to win -... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The True Cost of the Olympics in Middle-Income Countries

  

  OK, so I’m going to be talking about the Winter Olympics in Sochi, but all’s fair when the title is already a bit long. People often call investment in Olympic... Read more

  Posted on 19 September 2013 SOCIETY, SPORTS

• Writing on Russia

  

  Daniel Treisman, an ‘area studies’ scholar on Russia, wrote of two methods that people use to write about Russia.The first approach is to focus on the... Read more

  Posted on 16 September 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• How Much is Your Vote Worth?

  See this UK vote calculator, to see how much candidates spend in different areas. For some, each vote is worth as much as £3.07 (close to $5/€5), and for... Read more

  Posted on 15 August 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Polish Borderlands Culture

  The “Borderlands” are a region to the East of Poland with a longstanding mythology in Polish discourse. Being at different points in history part of the Polish... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Think Local – Syria is Not a Conventional War

  

  There are two things you’ll have noticed if you’ve been keeping an eye on Syria since things heated up there. The first is that the media likes to think of it a... Read more

  Posted on 13 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

  

  Szlachcic na zagrodzie równy wojewodzie. The noble on his estate is equal to the voivode.This is a Polish proverb, part of the legacy that came with the... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Royal Lobbying in the UK, and Exemption from the Freedom of Information Act

  In the UK recently, senior members of the judiciary ruled that it was ‘not in the public interest’ for the public to know how Charles Mountbatten-Windsor (Princ... Read more

  Posted on 09 July 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Postcolonialism – Key Terms

  

  Since these terms can often be hard to pin down, I’m giving some quick definitions of words I may use every so often. Note that this is me writing from my phone... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Mapping Eastern Europe, a Postcolonial Narrative?

  

  The EURASIA PROJECT, formally unveiled two years ago by Vladimir Putin, can be described as ‘essentialist’ in postcolonial terms. Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Queen’s Political Review Journal Launch

  

  So I don’t usually write in the first person, and maybe I should, but in this case it’s due to an individual milestone  rather than a quest to make Political... Read more

  Posted on 16 June 2013 POLITICS

• Leeds University, & the Commercialisation of Higher Education

  

  Leeds University has been advertising (for who knows how long, as nobody usually fact checks these things) that it is in the top 50 of world universities,... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Comments & Curios VI

  

  So, as the picture above might suggest to those who know what Irish weather is usually like, summer is almost upon us. That means Sun, and more time to write an... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Weak Estimate of EU GDP by Eurostat

  

  So, the statistics for GDP in the EU and Euro area were released not long ago. The EU is down by 0.1% from last year, and the Euro area down by 0.2%. Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 BUSINESS, CURRENT, DEBATE, ECONOMICS, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The BBC Sets the Agenda on the Royal Family (Republic)

  Please note that I didn’t write this, but am reposting it from the campaign for a British Republic ( http://www.republic.org.uk/updates/?p=907 ). Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 CURRENT, DEBATE, POLITICS, SOCIETY