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• Socialism In One Borough?

  

  Ken Livingstone’s business card (Photo credit: Mex Beady Eyes)Local government is considered by many in the UK to be a joke. Services provided by ‘the council’... Read more

  Posted on 02 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Thoughts on the Immigration Bill

  Immigration policy, as it stands in the UK, is in desperate need of reform. Illegal immigration is visibly damaging British society, whilst, just as importantly... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Battle For Our Homes

  

  English: Betsham House, Tennis Street, Southwark Typical of the many London County Council tenement blocks in this part of the city. Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Chile’s Students Might Just Change The World

  

  Camila Vallejo (Photo credit: L`N`Y)Protests can be the catalyst for massive social change, but are more often than not little more than cathartic futile... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Greenland Versus the Environment

  Greenland. Most people could tell you that it’s very beautiful, very far north, and maybe that its an autonomous territory of Denmark. But that’s as much as mos... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America and Britain: In The Same Boat?

  The United States is a nation which, though in many ways intertwined with the UK, we struggle to understand. Britain is in a unique position of straddling an... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Obscene Waste And How We’ll Stop It

  I don’t have a lot of affection for your typical supermarket chain, and Tesco is no exception. However, I feel credit is due to Tesco (the UK’s largest grocer,... Read more

  Posted on 22 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• British Nuclear Power: Recommissioned

  Britain is bucking the post-Fukishima trend and has just signed the contract on the first new nuclear power station in over twenty years, as a “first step”... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Partisanship and Our Politics

  

  Photo credit: Aidan JonesEarlier this week, I wrote an article, Plaid Cymru Thinks Big, in which I expressed my support for much of the policy platform of the... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Congress Kicks The Can Down The Road

  There was a time in which it was possible to govern the United States without having to battle, threaten and negotiate with your opponents every few months in... Read more

  Posted on 17 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• No Cuts To The NHS? That’s Not True

  The Conservative Party entered the last General Election promising to ‘ringfence’ the National Health Service budget. It was a shrewd political move: the NHS... Read more

  Posted on 16 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Plaid Cymru Thinks Big

  Though I support Wales’ continued membership of the UK, and have my concerns about further devolution of powers from the UK government to the Welsh Assembly, I... Read more

  Posted on 14 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Essay: The Advantages of Direct Democracy

  

  Direct democracy is the process by which the public make governmental decisions themselves, instead of entrusting elected representatives with that task. Read more

  Posted on 13 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Cuba’s Bloggers Battle For Freedom

  

  Juventud Rebelde Front Page (Photo credit: Wikipedia)  Cuba is a country that is widely believed to be slowly edging towards liberal democracy. Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Monaco and Humanitarian Aid

  var unrulyMacros = {}; unrulyMacros.siteRef=document.domain; Monaco might be a small nation of just 36,000 people, but it takes its responsibilities to the... Read more

  Posted on 12 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why Should Gambling Be Made Easier?

  I’m no fan of imprudent behaviour, even when it has nothing to do with me. We’ve all seen examples of how drugs, smoking, alcohol or gambling can ruin lives. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• This Is Why You CAN’T Shut Down a Government

  The United States has entered the tenth day of its federal government’s partial shutdown. Over half of its 800,000 employees, those who have been deemed... Read more

  Posted on 10 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The House Of Shuffles

  Yesterday, the Coalition and the Labour Party both reshuffled their frontbench teams. To date, the Prime Minister has adopted the wise strategy of avoiding... Read more

  Posted on 08 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Divided The NHS Falls

  In times of severe squeezes on both public and household spending, it is not surprising that workers’ pay is squeezed as businesses try to maintain or grow... Read more

  Posted on 07 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The First of 250,000,000

  

  Climate change is thought of by many as a problem that lies reassuringly far in the future: most middle aged people will not even live to feel its effects, it i... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2013 POLITICS, SOCIETY