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UKIP. A neglected threat?
Politically uniformed voters have just as much power at the ballot box as those supposedly ‘in the know’. To ignore this basic fact is to underestimate the ‘rule of the …
Breakfast and the Papers
We at the London Globalist are feeling a little bit worse for wear this morning having spent last night celebrating the return of Fresher’s Week at LSE. Whilst we obviously …
‘We will not recognise’: using a Crimean perspective
The latest fuel that has been added to the Israeli-Palestinian fire is murmur of Netanyahu’s newest demand: for the Palestinians to recognise Israel as a Jewish state. The latest fan …
Scaffold, not Talks: The State of Politics in Pakistan by Aamir Aziz
Pakistan has been bleeding for over a decade now. Religion is dear to Pakistanis and most of them cannot imagine living as secularists or avowed atheists, because these popular western …
For Europe or Democracy? The Ukrainian Protests
Two weeks ago the Reuters News agency showed pictures of the Independence Square in Kiev full of frost and sparkling with people. The number of participants has fallen in the …
Nuclear Visions: Is Fukushima a Global Crisis? By Madiha Bataineh and Didrik Dyrdal
On the 11th of March in 2011, the Tohoku earthquake triggered a tsunami that broke against the coast of Japan and impaired the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. Water waves flooded …
Playground tactics: Why the UK should stand up to China
There has is a tragic wave of self-immolations in Tibet that have overshadowed David Cameron’s first official visit to China. Since February 2011, more than 120 Tibetans have lit their …
A New Year, But I Think We Should See Other People – Scotland’s attempt to break up with United Kingdom
The Scottish First Minister Alexander Salmond has named September 18th, 2014 to be the day that Scotland’s residents will take to the polls. On that day it will be decided …
A Tiny Earthquake: Why Nigel Farage’s Thursday speech gives hope to Britain’s pro-EU campaigners
An interesting change in the British Eurosceptic discourse emerged at Nigel Farage’s public lecture at LSE yesterday (23.01.14). While little must be said about the event itself (yes, Farage is …
What Happens When the UN Finally takes a Look Inside North Korea
Tales from North Korean defectors have for years offered small glimpses into the brutal circumstances inside Pyongyang’s prison camps. Only recently, however, for the first time in history, has the international …