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The Green party has now achieved its highest 20 year rating in a Guardian/ICM poll. They stand at 9%, only two percentage points behind both UKIP and the Liberal Democrats. Combined with its huge boom in membership, currently over 44 thousand, it actually means they currently have more members...

As of last month, The University of Glasgow made a hugely significant political statement in committing to divest completely from fossil fuel companies. This means that it cut any financial ties or investments with the companies hell-bent on perusing financial gain at the expense of our planet. Glasgow was...

I am here to present the unpopular opinion that caffeine, the world’s most popular drug, is doing you more harm than good. Students chug their way through gallons of the stuff in futile attempts to stay alert through the next page of quantum mechanics or macroeconomics. We drink so...

“Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep,” declared Pope Francis at a World War I commemoration service last week. He described how “even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes,...

Yes or No? It’s been the question on every Englishman and Scotsman’s lips these past few weeks. I am talking about the minority campaign that has become a mainstream debate. It has inspired impassioned arguments, mobilised a united scurry of Westminster politicians, even managed to piss off the Spanish...

I was reading some stale and crusted old newspapers and magazines whilst on a Great British holiday the other week (and yes it was raining as you suspected). An article in the Guardian about a new indie duo caught my eye. Not because I thought listening to their music...