In the wake of last week’s pay scandal concerning RBS CEO Stephen Hester a lot has been said in regards to the opulence of bankers’ bonuses. In fact in the private student accommodation in which ...
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MP David Lammy has blamed anti-smacking laws for the lack of discipline that led to riots in London last summer.
Mr Lammy is the MP for the North London constituency of Tottenham, where the riots originated ...
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Police have been deployed in towns across Senegal, and are reported to have killed two people in the northern town of Podor, as protests intensify. Rallies have been organised after President Abdoulaye Wade declared his intention ...
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By the end of the year, Americans will have elected a new President. However, with no clear majority in public opinion for either the Democrats or the Republicans, who will ...
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Russian Election
The number in brackets shows the number of seats – 226 is a majority
Vladimir Putin’s party looks set to lose its two thirds majority in the 450 seat State Duma, Russia’s lower house. The two thirds of seats had allowed United Russia to change the constitution so Putin can become president for two six year terms. The fall from ...
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Who is Silvio? What is he,
That all our swines commend him?
Wholly full of vice is he;
The seven such place did lend him,
That he might removed be.
Is he blind to his hair?
For arrogance lives with blindness.
Sloth doth to his mind repair,
To help him of his ...
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The world of international development is more often than not more complex than the image the rock concerts and heart-strings-tugging TV ads might project. Often riddled with scandalous corruption and ...
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On 10 November 2010 a protest camp in the Western Sahara was brutally dismantled by the Moroccan Government, representing the start of the real Arab Spring. One year on, despite ...
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