The Arab Spring has produced mixed results in the Middle East. It was initially a movement driven by economic factors: rampant unemployment and the unfair and grossly unequal distribution of wealth forced young people out onto the streets to demand the fall of the dictatorships that had ruled their countries for decades. In countries such […]
Becca McAuley
Aid and relief is not enough: we must pre-empt natural disasters
The timing of hurricanes Harvey and Irma have somewhat ironically coincided with the rise to prominence in America of a number of climate change sceptics and deniers. The very real devastation caused by these hurricanes in America and the Caribbean leaves little room for denying the existence of climate change and its impact (in this […]