(c) sepponet
I want to make it absolutely clear from the outset that I am not a ‘climate change denier’, as sceptics are commonly labelled these days. I’m not exactly an out-and-out believer either, though. I’m also not …

(C) Andrea F Creative Commons

News that politics students at Sheffield Hallam University are to be taught how to protest has been met with surprise. After all, the student radical is a cultural archetype - surely “at …

(c) hoyasmeg
Last Sunday, Swiss voters supported a referendum proposing to ban the building of minarets, distinctive spires that stick out of the tops of Mosques. They were perceived as threatening, and a symbol of the …

ronijean
 
For some months now, Rupert Murdoch has argued that online search engines cannot continue to provide content for free indefinitely. His main target  is the search engine Google. Google, argues Murdoch, takes the content of his …

Back in 2007, so a popular Russian news service reported, fishermen working on the Sea of Azov (which is the blue bit on the map just to the north of the Black Sea) caught an …

(c) Scottish Government
Yesterday, Alex Salmond laid out his vision for Scotland’s constitutional future, making clear his hopes for a referendum in 2010 and reiterating his belief that full independence is the only way for Scotland …

(c) Xaf
Last week, the European Union appointed a President and Foreign Minister, following the successful adoption of the Lisbon Treaty, after the Czechs ratified it earlier this month. But this is a shambles and an …

Dave McLear
Old Age Pensions are the single most expensive scheme that the government spends money on. Politicians are desperate to court the ‘grey vote’, but pensions are so expensive, and the number of pensioners growing …

(c) Chicago 2016 photos
In our latest debate on The Vibe, columnists James Richardson and Simon Stiel go head to head, to discuss the future of education in this country. With Labour using the Queen’s speech …

(c) Paul Kehrer
With the release of the latest Mori opinion poll suggesting a significant tightening of the Labour-Tory gap in the run up to the impending general election, the press is awash with excitable prognoses …

(c) Jewish Voice For Peace
This article proposes to challenge David Gold’s original article on this issue. It is my feeling that an opposing article, rather than a comment on the original, is the most …

(c) Emma Brooks
A recent article about unpaid interns working for MPs and whether or not they are being exploited, got me thinking about what extents people will go to, to get a job. The article …

(c) rockcohen
“Who do I call if I want to speak to Europe?”  Ever since Henry Kissinger – I must add allegedly- famously quipped this whilst Secretary of State for the US, the EU has been …

(c) FaceMePLS
So, apparently the Israel lobby is primarily and solely concerned with the interests of the state of Israel. Channel 4’s documentary last night reaches this shocking conclusion from a tortuous hour long analysis. Peter …

(c) maurice

(c) Sian Berry
You are most likely to remember Siân Berry from the 2008 London Mayoral election, at which time she campaigned non-stop in a bid to persuade the people of London to vote Green. She …