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Beyond the iron coffin lid: the Nikkei 225 surges, but can Japan reckon with the ghosts of its past?
The Nikkei 225, Japan’s stock index, eclipsed 40,000 points for the first time on Monday 4 March, as loose monetary policy and a weak...


How we allow ourselves to be manipulated by Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin.
We have become cripplingly addicted to the “car crash interview”. It is the only kind of interview that our popcorn brains can focus on...

“Defining a Woman” – The ‘Culture Wars’ and Anti-LGBTQ+ Hate Crimes
During the Prime Minister’s Questions on the 7th of February Rishi Sunak came under criticism for his jibes aimed at Keir Starmer about...

Corruption, Accountability and Islamism: Malaysian Politics 8 years after 1MDB
On Friday 2nd of February 2024, news emerged that the sentence of Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Najib Razak, convicted for his role in...


New Vaping Laws: Mostly a step in the right direction?
By Taylor Green The banning of disposable vapes makes you wonder about the extent governments can go to ensure prolonging individual...

Just Stop Oil: help or hinderance?
There has been an increase in disruptive environmental protests in the UK with the arrival of groups like Just Stop Oil and Insulate...

A Far-Right Mouthpiece: How France’s Controversial Immigration Law serves no one.
By Kara Hall Tightening immigration laws represent a new era of cracking down in France, as non-nationals with criminal convictions...


Trouble in the DMZ
By Benjamin Sachs Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been on the rise recently. North Koreans this month claimed to have tested the...

What's next after the fall of Nagorno-Karabakh?
By Maya Sgaravato-Grant After 32 years of resilience, it took less than 24 hours from the first shell fired by Azerbaijani forces for...


David vs Goliath or Eve and the Serpent?
By William Hall A recent article written by Syed Wadih-Hussein on the crisis in the Red Sea has taken the liberty of applying the famous...
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