Category: Politics
What Explains the Global Rise of Populism?
Reading Time: 5 minutes The dawn of civilization established and rooted hierarchies that from the very beginning pigeonholed humanity into various ordered groups, dividing it into extremes of economic, cultural and political power. Indeed, […]
Should the Response to Global Pandemics Be Led by Politicians or Experts?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Humanity’s collective reaction to COVID-19 has accentuated the differences between the various political systems and governments currently ruling their own corners of the world. China amazed many with its rapid […]
Why Private Schools should not pay VAT
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Labour party have always suggested that private schools start paying VAT for years, but this is a disastrous idea. Keir Starmer, the newly elected Labour leader said last month that […]
The Future of Urbanisation in the Global South- How can it be Sustainable?
Reading Time: 6 minutes It seems that, looking at the past and near future, one of the reliable and guaranteed trends in industrialised human society is that of rapid urbanisation, as populations shift from […]
The FARC- A Historical Background
Reading Time: 5 minutes Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries experienced successive waves of internal conflict, political instability and foreign intervention. Colombia was no exception, as its pristine, beautiful swathes of countryside […]
The Problem of Nationalism in Japan
Reading Time: 11 minutes Although the term Japanese in the constitution is used to refer to people holding Japanese citizenship, the reality of the situation is very different: Japan is a mixture of various […]
The Future of the Democrat Party
Reading Time: 12 minutes Barack Obama famously paraphrased Martin Luther King Jr and 19th-century abolitionist Theodore Parker when he said that ‘the arc of history is long, but it bends towards justice’. Unfortunately, the […]
The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Socio-Psychological Barriers to Peace
Reading Time: 10 minutes Introduction The Arabs and the Jews have co-existed without grievances for millennia. It is a tragedy that struggle for dominance between the two has become entrenched, resulting in a Gordian […]
On Concepts and Society
Reading Time: 4 minutes Plato is perhaps the most well-known philosopher to be associated with an essentialist position. He maintained that everything we have a name for has an ideal essence of which we […]
The Bigger Picture: Progress not just politics
Reading Time: 3 minutes For a species that still in many ways acts like it still roams and hunts on the African savannah, we have gotten used to modern life. It seems like a […]