It is safe to say a government is the most controversial, independent body in our society. An important aspect of the government’s role is to try and please the majority of the population in order for them to remain in government. Since this tactic is common knowledge, it proves to be a challenging task to…
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What is the attention economy? By definition, the attention economy rests on the idea that attention is a scarce resource to compete for. The modern economy increasingly revolves around the human attention span and how products capture that attention. The concept most evident in the attention economy of today’s society is social media. The attention…
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An article written to inform you on the dangers of cocaine and drugs, as well as a historical background to the most well known drug criminal of all time, Pablo Escobar. This article contains informations and imagery some may find disturbing. Please proceed at your own discretion.
The purchase On April 25th Twitter’s board of directors unanimously accepted a $44 billion offer from Elon Musk to buy the social media giant. This follows Musk being critical of the running of the platform, over the past few years. An example of this is his opposition to the banning of Donald Trump after the…
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Storytelling The journalist and writer George Monbiot has pointed out that political failure is at heart a failure of imagination, and to trigger imagination we need narrative. Broad political movements all have their own narrative. Those narratives have a villain or villains who is the cause of the bad and disorder in the world and…
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How bad is climate change? One of the most frequently asked questions… Pretty bad if you ask me. I am going to start by explaining what climate change is. Climate change is often confused with global warming, so I would like to explain the difference. Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather…
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Stark Warnings Last August the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change published the first study of its sixth assessment report, which found that it is only possible to avoid warming of 1.5 °C or 2 °C if massive and immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are made. The Secretary-General of the UN, António Guterres, called the…
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I recently spoke to John Hogan, a lecturer and researcher of International relations at VU Amsterdam. I wanted to talk to him to get an expert’s perspective on the situation in Ukraine, but we also spoke about areas he specialises even more in like African politics and international security. You can watch the video here:…
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The Russian Empire In 1904, Czar Nicholas II of Russia led his country into war with Japan after a failed diplomatic attempt to expand Russian influence in Manchuria and Korea. A year later, the Russian Empire suffered a humiliating defeat to the hands of the Japanese Empire. The loss of life without victory and the…
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Geopolitics – An introduction Countries fight. Many of these wars and disputes lead to countries collapsing and other countries being born. Sometimes the people in or outside these new countries do not like where the borders were drawn which leads to more conflict, which leads to more countries falling and others being born, and the…
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