Oxfam UK has set up an excellent new blog designed to be the online space for discussion and debate on tackling poverty in the UK. Issues discussed range from labour rights to welfare reform and include the views of those who are experiencing poverty at firsthand. One of the...
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" The American Revolution was, perhaps, the single most influential event in modern political history. Spawning the democracies which have since spread around the globe, the revolution gave renewed impetus, credence...
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"The Internet: A Democratising Force or Information Overload? Increasing apathy concerning citizens’ attitudes towards and engagement with politics is a well-established and substantially expressed opinion in the western world. There are numerous statistics which...
"Making the Case for Equality Peter Mandelson proved true to his word when he said that new Labour was “intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich.” While the last 10 years has seen an end to the...
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"For several decades Colombian civilians have been caught in the midst of a cocaine and oil-fuelled conflict. Government forces, paramilitary soldiers and various guerrilla groups have been fighting to control the...
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" Amnesty's challenge to Obama With Barrack Obama’s presidency underway Amnesty International has created a new film and check-list asking the President to ‘take concrete steps to demonstrate his commitment...
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"Media control or media chaos? Claims that the media act in the interests of powerful groups in society, replicating their principle ideologies while marginalising others, dominated media and communications...
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"Over recent months, many people have predicted the end of free-market ideology, but few have offered an alternative. Ranging from issues surrounding income inequality to environmental taxation, from corruption in...
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"BBC News is a highly trusted organisation, considered by many to be an example of classic journalism which produces some of the most impartial reporting found in mainstream media (Prinzing, 2008; Christensen, 2004; BBC, 2004). This essay will argue, however, that television...
New facebook group backed by BBC Radio 1 DJ has been set up to get Jeff Buckely to number one. "Following the rather depressing news that this year's X factor finalist will be covering Leonard Cohen's beautiful...
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" For decades environmentalists have battled to convince politicians and the public that climate change is a real and present danger. Near scientific consensus, coupled with the fact that every mainstream...
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The behaviour of energy companies who are refusing to pass price cuts on to consumers, in spite of the sharp falls in the world price of crude oil, is of great concern to many.Average annual spending on energy per household has breached £1,200 (since 2000 gas prices have...
"Military media propaganda ‘The Vietnam War was complicated by factors that never before occurred in America’s conduct of war… More than ever before, television showed the terrible human suffering and sacrifice of war… raising questions whether America would ever...
In January this year Gordon Brown said he wanted a national debate on whether to alter the system of organ donation. He wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that a system of presumed consent could make a huge difference. He was right. Since then progress has been slow. Over recent...
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This autumn the UK government wants to push through a Bill allowing police to lock people up for 42 days without charge if they are suspected of a terrorism-related offence.Amnesty is concerned that civil...
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Truemors
Thomas Paine: In Search of the Common Good