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  • Jimmy Lai and the umbrellas of Hong Kong

    The umbrellas have been put away for the time being, but the arguments of where Hong Kong stands still have to be navigated. Jimmy Lai, the editor, founder and owner of Apple Daily is being charged under Hong Kong’s legislature with a whole plethora of charges, that range from conspiracy to commit foreign collusion to…

  • Welcome to a new year

    Welcome to a new year. There are so many important elections to look forward to this year, but this is the year of critical argument where nations are dependent on the outcome of two very important elections that will determine how the world is seen and moves forward. The first election is a given, it…

  • Weekend read… Empires

    John Darwin argued that a formal empire could be defined by a sustained effort to assimilate a country to the political, economic or cultural system of another power. (John Darwin (1997) SS9.2). Britain a maritime power and China a land-based empire, initially took significant different approaches to the expansion of their empires and how these…

  • Immigration in Europe and America

    Illegal migration is not a new argument, the US and Europe have been struggling with arguments concerning illegal migration for generations, but the mass movement of people has intensified the political and national arguments of states. Britain, a country with a large migrant population is determined to find an argument that challenges the illegal migrants…

  • The run up to the elections in Russia

    In March, Putin stands for re-election, it is almost certain that he will win. He has been polling at sixty percent and the nearest opposition, which is the Communist Party is polling at four percent. Of course there was Prigozhin who polled at six percent before he and his entourage were killed, but there is…

  • Censorship and the crisis in Gaza

    Thousands of column inches have been written about the war in Gaza, but underneath these columns is a darker murkier argument that is coming to play in both Israel and the West. It is the argument of censorship and how this censorship has played out in the West, as well as within academia, the arts…