Tag / UK
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Two Years Of Shutdown In Northern Ireland
The 35-day shutdown in Washington seemed to last an eternity, but it was a blink in comparison to the current government shutdown in Northern Ireland. On January 7 of this year, Northern Ireland celebrated an embarrassing two-year anniversary of government shutdown, with no end in sight. It is now the longest government shutdown in world…
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The Borders Around Our Own Empathy
When a suicide bomber detonated at an arena concert in Manchester in May 2017, it shook America to its bones. A little more than a week later, when a car bomb exploded at a busy market in Kabul, Afghanistan, America merely shivered. Terrorist attacks are ubiquitous and hard to keep up with, and an individual’s…
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Is It Really About Economics? The EU and Freedom of Movement
Any political debate in modern Britain is inevitably turning into a litany of issues caused by immigration. This year’s race to Labour Party leadership, following Ed Miliband’s resignation after he lost the general election last May, was no exception. From the four candidates, hundreds of thousands of Labour’s members and supporters could hear about problems…
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A Primer on the Scottish Referendum
BY THE WUPR EDITORS-IN-CHIEF On September 18th, Scots will go to the polls to vote on independence from Britain, the first time the question has been brought to a vote since they became part of the United Kingdom in 1707. The referendum seems to have snuck up on British politicians, who have mounted a last-ditch…
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Enough with Austerity
In the UK, the country I’ve called home for the past few months, we’ve now officially entered an unexpected double-dip recession. Like Obama, Prime Minister David Cameron inherited a huge debt. However, the British pound is much more vulnerable than the dollar, and the Tories decided to institute swift austerity measures for fear of becoming…
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Indecisive British Election Results
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Conservative challenger David Cameron each made their case Friday for a coalition with the party that finished third in Britain’s elections, hoping to secure the balance of power following an inconclusive vote. The Conservatives, who won the largest number of seats in Thursday’s contest, suggested that lawmakers from the…
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Politics: Civil and Dangerous
The changing face of elections U.S presidential elections are known, among other things, for elaborate campaigns. Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign is destined to go down in history for the way it was able to convince people that the election was more about bringing sweeping social change than it was about electing a new head of…
