Category: Medium Reads
An Evaluation of The Centrality of Sport to National Identity
Reading Time: 4 minutes The fabric that is a national identity is composed of shared experiences, stories and concepts that are dispersed among a particular group of people. Historically these have often centered around […]
Should we advocate for democracy as an innate human right?
Reading Time: 5 minutes A human right is not something that can be traded off for something else. Rights are absolute, there are no caveats and they must be upheld regardless. Democracy is often […]
The Struggle of Belarus
Reading Time: 4 minutes Alexander Lukashenko has been president since the establishment of the role and the office in 1994, following his election into the supreme council of the now defunct republic of Belarus. […]
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, […]
How We Can Change the Electoral College System
Reading Time: 4 minutes In the year 2000, after 36 days of recounting Florida was handed to George W Bush setting the scene for his next 8 years in Washington D.C. The decisive margin, […]
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 […]
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 […]