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A crying baby signals the start of another day. A young woman watches the news whilst her gurgling toddler giggles at the tropical fish tank, before crawling along the hall to the nursery and playing with a jigsaw. Normality, except for one difference: just outside the window is a...
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Hundreds of people, including students from the University of Nottingham, gathered around the Brian Clough Statue on 2nd December 2015 to protest against the Syrian air strikes. The gathering took place at 5:30 p.m. yesterday in response to the 174 majority vote in the House of Commons, announced just hours before,...
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The House of Commons is an institution unique in its ability to be at once perplexing, and resolutely predictable. What’s unique about this fresh war is the manner in which, for everyone of an age old enough to read this article, this has already happened more than once in...
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David Cameron told the recent Conservative Party Conference that Russian military action against Islamic State rebels and other opponents of Assad is “a terrible mistake”, and urged Putin to stop supporting his regime. The Syrian conflict is, if nothing else, extremely complex both in terms of the domestic groups...
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It is all disgustingly reminiscent of the squealing intimacy between a fictional Prime Minister and an alive pig on Charlie Brooker’s first episode of Black Mirror. But this morning, weary eyed commuters opened their Twitter feeds and thought they were still dreaming. David Cameron – allegedly – in his...
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Privatisation, as a word and a concept, is saturated with ideological tension and negative connotations. There is no wonder that we struggle to understand what it actually means. It has been wielded by the left of politics to convey everything apparently capitalist and greedy about the Conservative and other...
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30th October 2014 marked a crucial day for UK drug policy. For the first time, the government admitted that their draconian and old-fashioned drugs policy is not working. This admission came in the form of a report from the Home Office, which examined eleven countries and compared their policies...