Every year, no matter where you live in Britain, you can’t miss the period in January when all you hear is people constantly complaining. Mainly complaining about the fact that it is…
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It didn’t take me long to realise that I had made a truly terrible mistake. What I had envisioned was a fun and relatively peaceful weekend in Glasgow shopping for Christmas…
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Jack Mallon reports on the shocking scenes in Budapest, as the refugee crisis forces Western Europeans into a revision of our morals and priorities. “I was told that Budapest was one of…
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The General Election has been and men and women across Britain have exercised their right to vote. But do people in Britain realise the hard road to democracy that Britain has trudged? And…
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General Election 2015 was set to be a coalition extravaganza. For weeks we have had poll after poll tell us that the results were far too close to call, that no party…
MoreVoting behaviour has evolved significantly in Britain over the centuries and it has been greatly influenced by the ever changing face of media. We know that in the eighteenth century, voting was…
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It is testimony to Britain’s democracy that “#tvdebates” is the the top trending topic on Twitter right now. People up and down the country are voicing their indignation over David Cameron’s latest attempts to…
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It is very easy to see why people are becoming dissafected with politics. In 2010, we did see turnout increase slightly, but with this up-in-the-air General Election just months away, we would…
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Greece has been thrown a lifeline as its eurozone partners agree to a temporary extension on its bailout package. The original bailout, which is to expire at the end of this month,…
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In an historic vote the UK has become the first country in the world to vote in favour of “three-parent babies”, which is expected to come into force in October this year.…
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