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Reflections on the Void of Revolutions
The work of Marx has endured in the minds of the scholarly and unscholarly alike since its publication; he is both the authoritative...

Cianan Sheekey
2 days ago9 min read


Lowering the Voting Age is Not Enough: Britain Needs Mandatory Voting to Change
The Labour government recently announced that it would lower the voting age in general elections from 18 years old to 16 in what marks...

Xavier Fletcher
4 days ago3 min read


France To Scrap Two Public Holidays: Fiscal Penny-Pinching At Its Worst
Grappling with persistent budget deficits and mounting public debt, France has found herself once again at the centre of a heated debate,...

Ming Wa (Chris) Guan
6 days ago3 min read


Labour’s Age Check Fiasco: When Censorship Wears a Cardigan
The Labour Government, with all the grace of a cantankerous aunt rearranging your closet, has turned its gaze to the internet. The...

Kapil Deshpande
Aug 73 min read


Capitalism, Freedom, and Democracy
In his seminal 1962 work ‘Capitalism and Freedom’ , Milton Friedman proclaimed that free-market competitive capitalism was the only way...

Andres De Miguel
Aug 67 min read


Private Security Alienates Youth in West Africa
In nations such as Sierra Leone and Nigeria, companies which offer security services for individuals, public buildings, and private...

Anoushka Singh
Jul 313 min read


Why The Conservatives Should Have Backed Starmer’s Welfare Reform
More than three weeks on from the vote on Keir Starmer’s welfare bill , I still can’t shake the feeling that there was a serious error of...

George Wallace
Jul 285 min read


Transcaucasia At A Crossroads - Armenia, Russia, Azerbaijan And America Grapple For Power, Again
Both Armenia and Azerbaijan remain in a process of rapprochement, at the expense of Russia’s traditional dominance in the region. At the...

Patrick René Haasler
Jul 225 min read


Europe’s Moment of Truth: A Strategic and Moral Stake in Myanmar
Myanmar’s civil war may seem distant to Europe, but it represents a crucial test of the European Union’s values and interests in the...

Paul Gré-Beauvais (FONDEMOS)
Jul 175 min read


BRICS: The Blueprint For A United Global South?
The 2025 BRICS Summit, convened in Rio de Janeiro, underscored, once again, the growing ambition of the Global South in reshaping...

Ming Wa (Chris) Guan
Jul 164 min read


The Gulf States and the New Middle East
I have recently written a piece for Europinion discussing the notion of a New Middle East emerging as a result of US foreign policy that...

Naif Al Bidh
Jul 154 min read


Taking the Pip: Starmer’s £5 billion U-turn
It’s Keir Starmer’s one-year anniversary as Prime Minister this week – which is supposed to be Labour’s honeymoon, riding high on a super...

Dan Sillett
Jul 34 min read


Mamdani's Materialism or Oblivion: The Democratic Party in the Last Chance Saloon
The buzz surrounding Zohran Mamdani’s recent victory in the Democratic primaries for NYC Mayor has been understandably inescapable on...

Andres De Miguel
Jul 28 min read


Zohran Mamdani, the New Left, and a Return to Materialism
In the past few days, many progressive followers of US and world politics have felt an emotion they thought lost long ago, hope. In a...

Andres De Miguel
Jun 295 min read


U.S. Retreat and China’s Reach - Myanmar’s Civil War on the Global Stage
More than four years after Myanmar’s military seized power in a February 2021 coup, the country remains mired in a brutal civil war. On...

Paul Gré-Beauvais (FONDEMOS)
Jun 285 min read


Political whack-a-mole: The single-use disposable vape ban isn’t fit for purpose
It is rare for legislation to fail so completely that it does not even superficially address the problem it was designed to solve. It is...

George Wallace
Jun 264 min read


DRT - The most important transport innovation you’ve never heard of
DRT. Have you, dear reader, ever heard that acronym before? Perhaps you’re thinking it stands for ‘direct response translation’. Or maybe...

Luke Goddard
Jun 224 min read


A Review of the United Nations Ocean Conference and the Fight to Protect our Seas
Last Friday, the Third Edition of the United Nations Ocean Conference drew to a close after having run from the 9th-13th June....

Zoe Wreford
Jun 214 min read


Reassessing Hong Kong’s Economy: Challenges and Pathways to Revitalisation
Since the deluge of national security regulations, Beijing and its loyal agents in Hong Kong have tirelessly reiterated that the city is...

Ming Wa (Chris) Guan
Jun 194 min read


The Financial Illiteracy of the Spending Review and Why Spending Needs to Be Cut Now
Britain faces economic Armageddon. And no, Rachel, we do not have a £22 billion black hole, and your reckless spending spree will only...

Ethan Harvey
Jun 169 min read
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