The 2008 financial crisis spread economic shockwaves across the world. In the following years, millions of people lost their jobs, currencies crumbled, and entire countries had to be bailed out. Seemingly, the perfect solution, espoused by the global economic centres of Japan, North America and north-west Europe, was to embark on a programme of severe…
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Is military intervention against Isis in Syria the right way to respond to the Paris attacks?
Our writers argue the cases both for and against military intervention in Syria as a response to the recent terror attacks in Paris. YES The strategic use of ground troops must be considered as an option if we are to achieve stability The Paris attacks on 13th November, in which 130 people were killed, represent…
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The rise of the progressive left
Justin Trudeau has, without much fanfare in the UK, been elected as the new Liberal Prime Minister of Canada. It is understandable that this relatively routine change of government in a moderately sized democracy will naturally take a back seat to the long-standing geopolitical drama of the civil war in Syria. Nevertheless, Trudeau’s election could…
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Saudi Arabia: the Middle East’s forgotten poison
With the focus of international media on the Mesopotamian Valley, due to Isis, the Syrian war, and of course the refugee crisis, it’s easy to forget about the big-picture problems of the wider Middle East. Jeremy Corbyn, the recently elected leader of the Labour party, used his speech at the party conference in Brighton to…
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Cameron and Corbyn: neither is offering the full solution on the European refugee crisis
It’s been in the news for the entire summer: Europe has been overwhelmed by its own inadequacies and has resolutely failed to deal with the increasingly large number of refugees and “economic migrants” “swarming” across the continent. In response to this, David Cameron has argued that Britain shouldn’t take any more refugees, and instead needs…
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Britian needs Trident and should aspire to global influence
Election 2015 is just around the corner, and not surprisingly a hot topic during the campaign has been whether or not the next UK government should renew Trident, our nuclear deterrent. It’s a common opinion among students as well as the general public that nuclear weapons are an abhorrent artefact of the past. We cling…