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National: The Health and Safety Palaver
Europe: The Great Debate
National: Obesity Benefit Cuts (Trimming the fat of the Welfare state)
Whilst we enter the New Year with high hopes and...
Politics: Lock-step to Fiscal Ruin
April 29, 2009, hardly strikes a chord as an...
National: How do you Solve a Problem like Clegg?
If Nick Clegg truly wanted to save the reputation of the Liberal Democrats...
National: Insecure Defence
Though self-evident, it merits repeating: the coalition is proving useless...
Americas: Humala Humbled by Supporters
Just over a year ago, Ollanta Humala rode into power...
National: Monarchical Pride?
With viewing figures for the BBC’s coverage of the...
National: Ubiquitous U-Turns
Political PR seems to be dominated by a dictionary of buzzwords...
National: The Big Society Flop
It’s probably not news when a religious leader confesses his disappointment...
Science Degrees rule the Educational Cosmos
A few years ago, I applied for a job at one of the world’s biggest oil and energy companies.
National: RBS vs UK plc
If Stephen Hester has an ounce of decency, morality and humility he will not accept his...
Europe: Romania Reawakens
Apparently home to one of Europe’s most “apathetic” populations, Romanians have entered their eleventh day of revolt.
National: The Blitz Spirit
The recent government inquiry into our happiness levels apparently revealed a new “Blitz Spirit.” It sees...
Olympic Progression?
Two weeks ago, the official Olympic and Paralympic posters for next year's games were announced. Not what...
National: EU Referendum
The outcome of last Monday’s parliamentary vote on an EU referendum was...
Europe: Can we believe ETA?
Spain has always been different. It is noticeably divided by...
What next for Sure Start? Part 3
“The government says, ‘it’s up to your local council’. Our councillors say...
What next for Sure Start? Part 1
Next month, many English councils will reveal, in full, the details of...
Free Radicals
First known as the London Riots, then changed literally overnight to the...
Riots and Citizen Journalism: A tale of two angry mobs
With the media struggling to keep up with rapidly unfolding riots across...
The Teachers’ strike
“Listen, we are reasonable people, we want to negotiate. But in order to negotiate you...
Politics: Simple, Personal and Fun
The tuition fee issue last winter saw the biggest breakdown in relations between the government and young people for...
PMQs Clash
Ed Miliband used Wednesday 15 June’s PMQs to attack the government over the planned removal...
Why Libya but not Syria?
For all the controversy surrounding NATO’s intervention in Libya, the ultimate dilemma has surely hit the surface...
Bahrain Demonstrations
January 2011 saw the civil unrest that had been stirring for several months in...
New charges given to 9/11 Suspects
A military tribunal will charge Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-described organiser of the 9/11 attacks will...
One Year of Coalition Britain
This week the Coalition government celebrates its first year in office. A once-implausible marriage of...
Why ‘Yes’ lost the AV Argument
Well, that was two months well spent, wasn’t it? Yesterday...
The AV Decision
The AV referendum campaign may have failed to set the imagination of the British public alight...
The Blame Game
To most people, the causes of the banking crisis and the recession that followed seem distant...
The Royal Wedding
You’re damn right I’m excited about the Royal Wedding. And I don’t believe those who say they won’t be watching it...
Weekly round-up | 17 Apr-25 Apr
It’s been a busy week for the MouthLondon team! While...
Criminal Distortion
It was one of those moments that forces you to step back and consider whether...
AV Referendum: Fairer Votes?
On May 5th the United Kingdom will vote on its second referendum of all its constituent states...
UK Student Visas face Overhaul
The number of student visas for the UK is to be cut by around 80,000 after increasing fears that...
2011 UK Budget
The Tory budget was released yesterday with implications for commuters already setting in...
Livingstone’s Race for Mayor
In just over a year London will go back to the polls to select its Mayor for the fourth time...
Egypt & Tunisia Revisited
In yet another example of how celebrity news seems to take precedence over world events...
Offshore, Onshore?
Setting up Fund Investment Companies within member states of the European Union has...
Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less
On 24th May 2010, George Osbourne announced the biggest level of austerity measures since the Second World War era. The figures are...
Cloning: Innovation or Abomination?
We often associate human cloning with science fiction, beside technologies such as hoverboards and jetpacks or with the dystopian futures...
EXCLUSIVE The UK Jobs Market in 2011
Visit the Store: Full Content available in the Spring 2011 Issue... Young job seekers have received a triple blow to their dwindling prospects...
“Progress in Afghanistan”
Professor Theo Farrell appears, at first glance, to be an ordinary academic. Smart and professional-looking, he seems at home in the...
A Future for Free Speech?
One cannot help but wonder what happened to the country of John Locke. Doubtless for many, Milton’s Areopagitica and On Liberty...
EXCLUSIVE Re-evaluating the British Economy
The United Kingdom’s economy is based squarely on the...
Death of a System
Written over 60 years ago, Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman seems to be more...
Politics: War of the Roses – The Labour Leadership Race
In September 2004, U2 singer Bono took to the stage of...
National: Proposed Tuition Fee Rise causes National Protest
Over the past few weeks, many of you will have heard the names Lord Browne and...
National: Oh Lord; what does the Brown Report mean for Students?
Last year Labour (in conjunction with the other main parties) commissioned...
EXCLUSIVE Ahmedinejad the Hypocrite; Obama, the Failure?
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad spoke yesterday at the...