Category: Politics
Carehomes: The timebomb the government won’t diffuse
Reading Time: 5 minutes As a barometer of society’s civilisation, the UK’s care home sector is important. However, employing more people than the NHS, it is economically and politically important too. Clear and visible […]
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 […]
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 […]