Malian Spiderman highlights conflicting immigration policy in France
On 28th May, Mamoudou Gassama, an undocumented immigrant from Mali, rescued a small boy dangling from a balcony in Paris. Video footage of the scene went viral on social media and the video has...
Is Mahatma Gandhi still relevant in India today?
His face is on every bank note; politicians mark each anniversary of his birth and his passing, but in modern India, does anyone pay anything more than lip-service to the life and deeds of...
Italian election ends in political confusion
Italy hardly went into Sunday's general election humming with positivity. The eurozone’s third-largest economy has the EU’s highest percentage of young people not in education, training, or work according to Eurostat; a national debt...
Mired in corruption, Bulgaria takes over the EU presidency
On January 1, 2018, eleven years since it became a member of the European Union, Bulgaria took over the rotating EU Council Presidency from Estonia. Until the end of June, Sofia will host summits and meetings...
Does the decline of local journalism threaten British Democracy?
In the United Kingdom local journalism is in trouble. Since 2005 more than 200 local papers have closed and the number of regional journalists has halved to around 6,500 as of February 2018.
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Weaving a ‘new tapestry’: When May met Macron
Rarely have France and Britain prospered concurrently. From the Normans to Napoleon, France and Britain have traded global influence for centuries. Not much has changed aside from the scale of the power. The rhetoric was...
Botswana’s fictitious economic miracle
Botswana's GDP per capita growth - from $58 in 1960 to $6,924 in 2016 - has been hailed as an economic miracle. The country has certainly achieved some huge successes in recent years, most notably with its...
Ireland abortion referendum gives huge mandate for change
On Friday 25 May, the Ireland abortion referendum saw a vote to overturn a thirty-fire year old near-total ban on abortion by a margin of 66.4% to 33.6%. Referendum returning officer Barry Ryan said that...
Terror transformed: from foreign fighters to homegrown terrorism
Since the fall of Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State (IS), in October of last year, declarations of the “defeat of the Caliphate” have dominated headlines across the globe. World leaders were united...
Could March’s election see Italy leave the euro?
A 19 year old Italian would have been the same age as the euro when Sergio Mattarella, Italy’s president dissolved parliament to call an election on the 28 December. As the upcoming general election...
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Peace in El Pacifico? Colombia’s Chocó region has its own agenda
On 17 June, Colombia votes in the second round of its presidential election: the first since an historic peace agreement was signed in 2016...
Salah meets Kadyrov: why are Egypt in Chechnya?
Kim Jong Un wasn't the only iron-fisted ruler to be granted an unlikely photo opportunity this week. On Monday the world awoke to Egypt's...
Could a 1p NHS tax save the health service?
With the National Health Service reportedly the number one priority for Conservative Party voters, ahead of Brexit and immigration, Jeremy Hunt – now the...
