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Latest in Politics Why Don’t Young People Vote? The only sure thing about this year’s general election is uncertainty. But one thing seems set in stone – the majority of young people are not going to vote. Alice Glynn · 1 May 2015

14 Apr 2015 14 Apr 2015 “You may house their bodies but not their souls” Taimour Fazlani reads Gibran against the tuition-fee system, arguing that debt and dogma are stripping the soul from British university learning. Taimour Fazlani

17 Mar 2015 17 Mar 2015 A Small Island Insight In this region of Melanesia, Islands are small states that get pushed around and often manipulated by powerful corporations. Mui

12 Feb 2015 12 Feb 2015 Will You Be Arrested For Reading This? Jeffrey Hernandez reads the 2015 Counter-Extremism Bill and Cameron's vow that obeying the law will no longer keep the state out of your life. Jeffrey Hernandez

27 Jan 2015 27 Jan 2015 Materialism that Undermines Capitalism David Gould argues postmodern relativism disarms critique of capitalism, and that taking objects' value seriously is a materialism that resists. David Gould

24 Jan 2015 24 Jan 2015 Would you shoot the president? Would you shoot the president to stop a nuclear strike? Elijah Joshua Pryor dissects the dilemma and what such questions reveal about morality. Elijah Joshüa Pryor

23 Dec 2014 23 Dec 2014 Education and Power I: Machine Minds Tom Moulton traces capitalism from feudal origins to a dominance so normalised that 9-to-5 work and excess consumption now pass for human nature. Tom Moulton

1 Nov 2014 1 Nov 2014 Global Visionaries: Erick Matsanza – Spice Chungu Orsod Malik speaks with Erick Matsanza and Spice Chungu, African visionaries whose work defies the West's bleak single story of the continent. Orsod Malik

3 Oct 2014 3 Oct 2014 Genocide begins with the Silence of the World Zekarias Kebraeb is a human being who can fly because he has wings in his soul. To us Zekarias Kebraeb is an immigrant. Just an immigrant. Benjamin Eli Levine

9 Jun 2014 9 Jun 2014 ‘no Justice, no Peace’ in a white supremacist capitalist patriarchy Benjamin Eli Levine traces 'no justice, no peace' from Rodney King to Mike Brown through bell hooks' white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. Benjamin Eli Levine

1 Jun 2014 1 Jun 2014 Acknowledging Privilege Oppression is a system in which one group maintains supremacy over another, simple enough. How exactly does one group maintain supremacy over another? Orsod Malik

24 Apr 2014 24 Apr 2014 The Very Direct Democracy When UKIP backed referendums and recallable MPs, Dave Martin asked what direct democracy would really deliver for voters and the working class. Dave Martin

11 Mar 2014 11 Mar 2014 From the Depths of a Melting Pot into the Circles of a Neoliberal Inferno: Part I Benjamin Eli Levine maps how neoliberal ideology and identity politics atomise us into cells of a panopticon while claiming to set us free. Benjamin Eli Levine

11 Feb 2014 11 Feb 2014 A Response To Tony Blair’s Recent Contemptible Claim Jeremy Barras answers Tony Blair's claim that religious difference, not ideology, will fuel this century's battles, and finds it contemptible. Jeremy Barras

14 Jan 2014 14 Jan 2014 Duggan’s Just Deserts Or Have We Deserted Justice? Oliver Brooks dissects the inquest that ruled Mark Duggan's shooting lawful and asks what an unarmed man's death means for British justice. Oliver Brooks

23 Dec 2013 23 Dec 2013 Slut Shaming & the Censorship of Music Videos Emily Hoyle takes on slut-shaming and the calls to censor music videos, asking why Miley Cyrus became the scapegoat for a sexualised culture. Emily Hoyle

25 Sept 2013 25 Sept 2013 Has the US Supreme Court Just Induced A Pharmaceutical Game of Russian Roulette? Karen Bartlett lost her skin and sight to a routine anti-inflammatory drug; Jeremy Barras asks how the US Supreme Court left patients unprotected. Jeremy Barras

19 Sept 2013 19 Sept 2013 The Female Gaze, Women Viewing Sexualised Women Emily Hoyle asks why women look at sexualised women, from lingerie campaigns to magazine covers aimed at a female, not male, audience. Emily Hoyle

14 Sept 2013 14 Sept 2013 The Dissension Between Western Actions and Western Values Mark Richards charts the widening gap between Western governments' professed values and their record of military intervention and security policy. Mark Richards

11 Sept 2013 11 Sept 2013 A Report Regarding the Recent Inscrutable Events in Syria Jeremy Barras asks whether Western strikes over Assad's sarin attack would extinguish Syria's 'moral obscenity' or simply ignite a deadlier fire. Jeremy Barras

11 Aug 2013 11 Aug 2013 What does Zimmerman’s acquittal mean for America? Benjamin Eli Levine asks what George Zimmerman's acquittal for killing Trayvon Martin reveals about race and justice in post-King-dream America. Benjamin Eli Levine

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