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High Ambitions, Higher Emissions: Is the UK Prioritising Growth Over Green?
Millie Gould It seems the Labour government’s commitments to climate action are up in the air after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her support for Heathrow Airport’s long-debated third runway expansion. This endorsement came amidst her speech at a Siemens Healthineers facility in Oxford, where Reeves highlighted her support for ‘growth at all costs’. In 2023, Reeves pledged to be Britain’s first green Chancellor. However, January’s announcement, along with recent remarks
Mar 12, 2025
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High Ambitions, Higher Emissions: Is the UK Prioritising Growth Over Green?
Millie Gould It seems the Labour government’s commitments to climate action are up in the air after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her support for Heathrow Airport’s long-debated third runway expansion. This endorsement came amidst her speech at a Siemens Healthineers facility in Oxford, where Reeves highlighted her support for ‘growth at all costs’. In 2023, Reeves pledged to be Britain’s first green Chancellor. However, January’s announcement, along with recent remarks
Millie Gould
Mar 12, 2025
Rebuilding After Assad
Udaya Pal The fall of the brutal Assad regime on the 8th of December was rightly celebrated across the world, just as the horrors of the regime became painfully clear. However, as the dust settles, serious concerns are emerging amongst observers who fear that Syria could follow Libya’s post-revolution trajectory into collapse. Further doubts about the future of Syria’s leadership have been cast by those who highlight the former al-Qaeda connections of the leaders of the rebel
Udaya Pal
Feb 12, 2025
Fast Fashion and Fast Food: A Parallel Model of Consumptions and Ethics
Aryanee Nair Fast fashion and fast food. The alliterative pair serves as a sonic anchor, suggesting urgency and immediacy which are central to both industries. The fluidity and catchiness emphasises the nature of modern consumer behaviour, where speed takes precedence over deliberation and ethics. Both of which are emblematic of a capitalist system that prioritises consumerism over moral considerations. The fast-food industry is not just a business but a microcosm of the larg
Aryanee Nair
Jan 25, 2025
Progress Up North: Exploring the Success of Canadian Child Benefit Reforms
Abhay Venkitaraman Over the past decade, Canadian governments on both sides of the aisle have implemented reforms to the country’s child benefit regime. These efforts have significantly increased the generosity of welfare provision for households with children. What impact did these policies have – and with child poverty rates on the up in the aftermath of the pandemic, what more needs to be done? Across advanced economies, child poverty rates in the OECD generally exceed tho
Abhay Venkitaraman
Jan 18, 2025
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Rebuilding After Assad
Udaya Pal The fall of the brutal Assad regime on the 8th of December was rightly celebrated across the world, just as the horrors of the regime became painfully clear. However, as the dust settles, serious concerns are emerging amongst observers who fear that Syria could follow Libya’s post-revolution trajectory into collapse. Further doubts about the future of Syria’s leadership have been cast by those who highlight the former al-Qaeda connections of the leaders of the rebel
Udaya Pal
Feb 12, 2025
EU Membership: The Price of Belonging
Aditi Someshwar The European Union is one of the most powerful and significant geographic blocs in history. The Union extends decision-making dominance across countries both within Europe and beyond, positioning itself as an overarching ideological faction with implicit power at the global stage. However, is being a member of the Union worth the price one pays in accession? This remains a question that begs an answer. Who may enter the Union? Being within the geographic co
Aditi Someshwar
Jan 8, 2025
Trump’s Return: What this means for the Fragile Balance in the Middle East
Udaya Pal Donald Trump’s incoming return to the White House has many skeptical and concerned about the implications for the future of US relations with the Middle East. He’s been very vocal about his desire to return to a time of US isolationism, outlining a foreign policy characterised by high tariffs, transactional relationships, and a rejection of multilateral organisations. His first term demonstrated his appetite for reckless and aggressive behaviour, but his ambitions w
Udaya Pal
Dec 5, 2024
Global Plates: How Countries Export Culture
Aditi Someshwar Food is central to all of our lives, an essential ingredient for our mind, body, and soul. It is also a severely overlooked dimension of how countries exercise power. Cuisine and culinary premise is an unconscious yet effective mechanism of influencing perception and image with very real world consequences in the form of bilateral treaties, trade agreements, and tourism. Setting The Plate - Culinary Exchange To understand the way in which culinary diplomacy i
Aditi Someshwar
Nov 30, 2024
High Ambitions, Higher Emissions: Is the UK Prioritising Growth Over Green?
Millie Gould It seems the Labour government’s commitments to climate action are up in the air after Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced her support for Heathrow Airport’s long-debated third runway expansion. This endorsement came amidst her speech at a Siemens Healthineers facility in Oxford, where Reeves highlighted her support for ‘growth at all costs’. In 2023, Reeves pledged to be Britain’s first green Chancellor. However, January’s announcement, along with recent remarks
Millie Gould
Mar 12, 2025
Carbon Markets: Making the Most of a Cornerstone of Climate Policy
Jakub Fegyveres Carbon markets are, currently, a highly topical issue in contemporary environmental policy. Included as one of the three mechanisms for cross-border "voluntary cooperation" within the framework of the Paris Climate Agreement, they are currently one of the main drivers of emissions reduction, as well as providing a source of climate financing. Currently, there are 33 non-voluntary carbon markets in operation around the world, though this number looks set to gro
Jakub Fegyveres
Jan 16, 2025
A Climate Conscious Curriculum: the Low-Cost way to Combat Disinformation and Improve our Future
Jakub Fegyveres What is the most important area of environmental policy? In my opinion, especially in this context, the relative importance of a given policy should be synonymous with, and measured by, its impact. It may be intuitive to turn to the most well-known policies; the ban on electric vehicles, or the 1.5-degree Celsius target agreed in Paris at COP21. These policies, and many others like them, were formed by educated policymakers, operating on the basis of a politic
Jakub Fegyveres
Dec 8, 2024
What does Donald Trump’s Recent Election Win Mean for Global Climate Change Policy?
Millie Gould It is no secret that Donald Trump has some controversial and downright conspiratorial views on climate change, with him even going as far as to call climate change “one of the greatest scams of all time”. Despite there being a consensus amongst 97% of climate scientists that climate change is not only real but anthropogenically caused, Trump’s recent re-election for a second term signifies the return of climate denialism to the Oval Office. As this article is
Millie Gould
Nov 19, 2024
The Downplay of the Mental Health Crisis: How Will Disparities be Resolved?
Lois Glover Historically, mental health has been a heavily stigmatised, taboo topic and in many ways remains that way. Whilst mental health has gained increasing political and public attention, many misconceptions continue to circulate. From minimising symptoms to ridiculing therapeutic practices, a harmful legacy of misinformation has been created. Political decisions often convey an undertone of neglect toward mental health issues, despite the serious consequences of this d
Lois Glover
Nov 13, 2024
Cancer: why health inequalities in cancer are making the world’s biggest killer that much more dangerous
Isabella Lopez-Scott There are many areas in healthcare in which spotting inequalities is obvious, for example, those who can afford...
Warwick Think Tank
Mar 28, 2024
COVID-19 and its Implications on our Mental Health
By Isabella Lopez-Scott The COVID-19 pandemic had many implications for the economy, education, and healthcare. However, one factor...
Isabella Lopez-Scott
Feb 25, 2024
Public vs Private: Does the Quality of Healthcare vary between the Public and Private Sectors?
By Nimrit Jodha Over the past decade, there has been an increased emphasis on healthcare becoming a profit-maximising industry. However,...
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Editorial: Let Joe Biden Run Again
By Will Allen It seems like a given rule that presidents are expected to seek re-election. There are just six examples of incumbent...
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Life, Death, and Dignity: Understanding the Assisted Dying Debate in the UK
India Gordon The UK is at a pivotal moment in its history with the proposed Terminally Ill Adults (Assisted Dying) Bill having passed its second reading in the last month. If approved, the Bill could transform end-of-life care in the UK, marking a significant step forward in patient autonomy. However, to truly ensure the safety and dignity of patients, adequate safeguards are needed to address the procedure’s intrinsic practical and ethical challenges. need to be robustly def
India Gordon
Jan 9, 2025
Confronting the UK's Far-Right Violence Problem
India Gordon This year, the UK witnessed a level of national violence not seen since the 2011 riots. However, the violence this time seemed to have a clear ideological fuel: far right-wing populist sentiments driven by anti-immigrant and Islamaphobic rhetoric. These views, having been repeatedly reinforced by leading political figures, mainstream media, and social media platforms, have become deeply ingrained in British society. From this perspective, the riots serve as just
India Gordon
Nov 21, 2024
Innocence under Siege: The Plight of Gaza’s Children
By Mehul Chopra The Gaza Strip, a small, densely populated piece of land on the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, is home to over 2...
Mehul Chopra
Jan 16, 2024
Refugees in Limbo:Confronting Discrimination and Institutional Racism in Europe's Immigration Crisis
By Saarah Rahman Refugees flee their home country due to violence, crossing international borders for safety. However, they are met with...
Saarah Rahman
Nov 8, 2023
Explore Education
Bridging the Digital Divide in Education: Addressing Technology Disparities
India Southcott In today’s education system, digital tools have moved from supplementary resources to essential elements for educational engagement. Yet, as education becomes increasingly digitised, the disparity in access to technology reveals deeper inequalities, particularly for students from low-income families. While some students benefit from seamless access to digital devices and broadband, others are left behind, unable to participate fully in online learning environm
India Southcott
Nov 2, 2024
AI: a support or danger to learning?
By Zaira Imran Since the pandemic, the innovation of AI technology and its integration into several industries and sectors has been...
Zaira Imran
Feb 19, 2024
Is La Laicité in schools the separation of religion from the state or the separation of Islam from French society?
By Oriane Nagberi La Laicité is an educational policy that exists in France as a secular policy, intercepting every part of French...
Oriane Nagberi
Feb 19, 2024
Schools Under Strain: SEND Children Face Crumbling Support Systems
By Daniel Norman There are now more Special Education Needs and Disabilities — SEND — children in the British school system than ever....
Daniel Norman
Nov 6, 2023
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