Imagine it is the late 2020’s and Autonomous vehicles are a fact of life. No one you know or interact with owns a car and in one way or another you utilise self-driving transportation. There are few vehicles on the road and they are all … Continue readingSELF-DRIVEN PROGRESS OR DRIVE TO DOOM?
*Read to the end of the article for more information on our competition. The Marvel Cinematic Universe. What a cultural phenomenon. With 21 movies, several TV shows, and more on the way, you would be hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of Robert … Continue readingCOMPETITION: WE’RE IN THE END GAME NOW!
With the American political climate polarised by debate that has emerged from the proposed ‘Green New Deal’ (GND), it is difficult to understand the core stance of the deal and what is seeks to produce. It’s its very essence, the GND is the corporal form … Continue readingTHE NEW GREEN DEAL: LEGAL INSTRUMENT OR RALLYING CALL?
At 1.40pm on the 15th of March, New Zealand saw one of its darkest days since 1990 when Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, initiated twin shootings at Mosques in Christchurch during Friday prayers. These devastating attacks resulted in fifty people losing their lives and … Continue readingFROM THE ASHES WE RISE, THE LESSONS LEARNT FROM NEW ZEALAND
International Women’s Day, a brief history and a bright future. “I am not free while any other woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.” – Audre Lorde For almost a century, March 8th has been a revolutionary stand point … Continue readingMORE POWERFUL TOGETHER
Make a list of everything that happened in international politics or made the world section of the news in the last two weeks. Now look over it. Was Poland there? Katowice? Clean coal? What about even just the word climate? Don’t be surprised if two, … Continue readingC.O.P. WHAT? A RUNDOWN OF THE CLIMATE CONFERENCE AS THE WORLD DESCENDS INTO MORE CHAOS
By Hamah Hosen – Last weekend, leaders of the world’s biggest economies gathered in Buenos Aries for the 13th G20 Summit. The agenda of the 2018 summit focused on the future of work, infrastructure for development, and sustainable food projects. However, attention instead circled around … Continue readingSNAPSHOTS OF 2018 G20 SUMMIT
Since the 1920s, the West has been built on the consensus that immigration must be limited so that migrants can be properly assimilated into society without taking away jobs from citizens. Whilst multiculturalism and mass-migration has marked the post-Second World War world, we are seeing … Continue readingPOPULATION PERIL: THE COMING CRISIS OF THIS CENTURY
It is one of the most shuddering and tedious of social niceties – small talk. That persistent cycle of banality that encompasses “talk” often on weather, congestion and superficial interest in one’s personal life when really, many are simply waiting for that delicious caffeine fix. … Continue readingBARISTA TALK – WIDENING OUR PERSPECTIVE OF THE WORLD