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An Introduction to the Youth of Planet Earth

If various reports are to be believed, by the time you’ve read this I will have scrawled graffiti over your walls, stolen your car’s right wing mirror and shouted expletives at your elderly mother, all ...

Mar
05
2007
How The Right (and Roe) Stole Our Values

How The Right (and Roe) Stole Our Values

No issue exposes the deep divisions in the American political landscape like that of abortion. Ever since the handing down of Roe vs. Wade by the US Supreme Court in 1973, enshrining a woman’s right ...

Sep
05
2006
The White Man’s Burden (?)

The White Man’s Burden (?)

What do you think of when you think of Africa? Starving little children, rib cages and swollen bellies horrifically prominent in desolate, dusty villages, surrounded by flies? Or maybe corrupt military leaders living on a ...

Aug
07
2006
This House Believes The War on Terror Cannot Be Won

This House Believes The War on Terror Cannot Be Won

Notes from First Proposition Speaker in KES Debating Society Motion, Oct 2004 Well firstly, I’m here to tell you that the war on terror can’t be won, because it doesn’t exist. What is terror? Can ...

Oct
26
2004
The War on Freedom

The War on Freedom

Two years on from the atrocities of September 11, and the unveiling of George Bush’s ‘war on terror’, is the World a safer place? The death of 3,000 Americans has resulted in the deaths of ...

Sep
07
2003
Iraq, Terror and The New World Order

Iraq, Terror and The New World Order

The war we will inevitably face in sooner or later against the regime of Saddam Hussein is one of hidden dangers that go much further than the security risks posed by Iraq. The war we ...

Feb
07
2003
Why The War on Terror Cannot Be Won

Why The War on Terror Cannot Be Won

That’s it then. We’ve got the blessing of the UN, and so we’re going into Iraq to remove a tyrant, free the world of terror, and to bring peace and democracy to those persecuted by ...

Nov
03
2002