New Zealand's 2023 Election: A battle for the middle ground
BY LOUIS SAMARASINGHE It was only last year when Jacinda Ardern announced her shock resignation as the Prime Minister of New Zealand....
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The Fable of the Bulbs: Why North Sea Oil Extraction is Necessary
BY JAMES BEAMISH In 1714, the Dutch moral philosopher Bernard Mandeville published one of the most infamous texts of the eighteenth...
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BY OLIVER SUAREZ-JIMENEZ A defining feature of 21st-century European Politics has been the decline of the traditional centre-left party....
Practical, fair, and compassionate - the argument for the Illegal Migration Bill
BY JACOB ARNOLD In the name of spirited and balanced debate, this article has been written to present some of the key arguments that...
Glaring faults – the argument against the Illegal Migration Bill
BY RANIA SIVARAJ Migration is a contested issue. It is complex, multifarious, and generally a topic that people are either uncomfortable...
A Presidential Apology: Overdue or Political Point-scoring?
BY SELMA SAIK President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa of Portugal suggested his country should offer a long-overdue apology for its role in the...
The Monarchy in 2023: Plain Sailing or Dead in the Water?
BY TOM LOWE With the passing of Queen Elizabeth II last September and the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla, debates...
The SNP is corrupt – but it isn’t going anywhere
BY DANIEL SILLET There is a rather infamous saying by Lord Acton, which most of you will probably have read a thousand times in journal...
Democracy under threat
BY NURMASH TOK Democracy finds itself in an increasingly hostile environment, placing it in the most precarious position in decades....
Deadly fire in Mexico migrant centre - overdue immigration reform?
BY SEVEN STANDEN Katiuska Marquez (23) was among the many waiting outside the National Institute of Migration (INM), in the border city...
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