A Step Backwards for a Regime or a Step Towards Equality?
By Sophie Minter
Nearly 17 decades have passed since the women’s rights movement started in Seneca Falls, New York. Over those decades it is evolved into the intersectional feminist movement many people are familiar with now, championing issues that women and minorities face globally. Continue reading “A Step Backwards for a Regime or a Step Towards Equality?”
Neoliberalism and Its Upheaval
By Vladimir Ivlev
Peer through the lens of neoliberalism and you see more clearly how the political thinkers most admired by Thatcher and Reagan helped shape the ideal of society as a kind of universal market (and not, for example, a polis, a civil sphere or a kind of family) and of human beings as profit-and-loss calculators (and not bearers of grace, or of inalienable rights and duties).
– Stephen Metcalf, The Guardian Continue reading “Neoliberalism and Its Upheaval”
Opinion Piece – Ignorance Beyond the West: East Asia
By Emma Temple
Broadly accepted connotations of Eastern Asia are likely but not limited to ideas of a technological hub, a catalyst for global progression not least on an economic level but also in terms of military and material power. There is not in political practice, however, an in depth understanding of the cultural nature of the area, and the roles that individual domestic cultures have in shaping foreign policy as well as global outlook. Continue reading “Opinion Piece – Ignorance Beyond the West: East Asia”
Can The Tories Win Over Young Voters?
By Thomas Sherlock
As the dust settles from the general election politicians and commentators have been running wild trying to identify what exactly went wrong for Theresa May’s gambit. There have been many pieces written about the reception to the Tories’ manifesto, Labour’s strong campaign and Theresa May’s lacklustre performance, but it seems the media and the Conservative Party have chosen to focus on one particular weakness the election clearly exposed-the Tories have a serious problem with young voters. Continue reading “Can The Tories Win Over Young Voters?”
Catalonia – Why both sides are wrong.
By Malick Nythern Doucoure
With waves still settling from the recent Tsunami that was the Catalan independence referendum and its aftermath, a show of unity and respect for democratic process and tradition is necessary from both sides. Catalonia is not Spain – it never has been! The region has a distinct language, culture and some would say even a distinct ethnicity to those in Madrid. The Catalan language is derived directly from common Latin, not Castilian Spanish – a frequent misconception used by many to promote a message of unity through a common linguistic heritage.
The Week in Summary (2nd October – 8th October 2017)
