Western aggression against Iran will lead to war
State run news agencies in Iran have released statements pertaining to Iran’s latest nuclear energy advancements. They have managed to produce their first nuclear fuel rod, which will in turn be used...
View ArticleA Little Bird Told Me: Twitter And Politics
Following Ed Miliband and Diane Abbott’s recent Twitter faux pas I wanted to analyse the burgeoning and ever growing relationship between Twitter and politics. Over the last few years Twitter has...
View ArticleThe Race for 2016: A better batch of Republican candidates
Mitt Romney won both in Iowa and in New Hampshire to complete a historically unprecedented double for a non-incumbent Republican candidate. It is looking increasingly likely that he will sooner than...
View ArticleWhy we miss the Cold War: Humanitarian Intervention, the War on Terror and...
Don’t you just miss the Cold War? Of course, I don’t mean the part about being on the brink of nuclear annihilation but rather the way that the superpower rivalry provided us with a good excuse to...
View ArticleAmerican decline: what decline?
As there is a trend for a certain brand of shoe or coat, so academia is not immune to such trends either. The current academic fad is of American decline. Indeed such is the prevalence of the concept...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform in America should be a Republican Issue
One of the biggest, if not the biggest issue in American politics has been the healthcare reforms initiated by President Obama. Both Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman wanted to introduce some kind...
View ArticleThis Republican field benefits one man: the lucky incumbent.
As the proverb states, we each need a little luck now and again. This is increasingly pertinent for the present incumbent of the Oval Office. Despite inheriting the harshest fiscal conditions since...
View ArticleThe power of veto: Are the floodgates open?
David Cameron’s veto of the EU treaty to fix the Eurozone crisis may only really have stalled, rather than prevented, Europe’s fiscal union, but it has potentially opened the floodgates for the use...
View ArticleMilitary action against Iran: Will Israel repeat the mistakes of Osirak?
When Barack Obama recently urged Benjamin Netenyahu to pursue the diplomatic rather than military route with regards to Iran and its nuclear ambitions, the Israeli Prime Minister was keen to remind...
View ArticleBarack Obama- A Lucky Thomas Dewey
In the run-up to this year’s Presidential election it has become the norm amongst many in the media and further afield to compare Barack Obama to a wide variety of former Presidents. His detractors in...
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