by Ng ShiMeritocracy, as defined by the Oxford English Dictionary, is a “government or the holding of power by people selected according to merit”. One of the earliest records of meritocracy dates back to the time of Confucius in ancient China, where he advocated...
by Caroline CapeThe climate is changing, and we know it. Our planet is warming, and the icecaps are melting; the increase of greenhouse gases is having slow, yet catastrophic consequences on our earth’s delicate and interconnected ecosystem. Man-made climate change...
by Lucy AltyThe misrepresentation of migrants as a ‘swarm’ of asylum seekers hoping to ‘leech off of our welfare system’ and ‘steal our jobs’ is an ever-growing theme within the media and politics, most significantly to me here, within the UK, but also across much of...
by Rebecca Pierce Since 2015, the national media has been saturated with coverage of “the migrant crisis”. This coverage has been based solely on asylum seekers, and has been accompanied by various pictures of boats filled with people travelling across the...
by Rachel WilliamsonCorporate social responsibility (CSR) refers to actions that companies take which will have a positive effect on society, the environment or the economy. It exists because corporations are the real criminals when it comes to environmental...
by Lucy HodgkinThe term ‘radicalisation’ is defined as “the process by which a person comes to support terrorism and forms of extremism leading to terrorism” (The House of Commons: Home Affairs Committee, 2012). The interest and use of the word ‘radicalisation’ is now...
by Annabelle Devey Change can only happen when people come together from the ground up - R. Brand (2015) According to the Oxford Dictionary, protests can be described as: ‘an organized public demonstration expressing strong objection to an official policy or course of...
by Zvi OdubaIn 1978, Stuart Hall and his fellow cohorts published a book, Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State, and Law and Order, in which Chapter 10 addressed how the police criminalized black youth were by suggesting the increased muggings in local areas were,...
Whilst attitudes towards the elderly have changed considerably in the last sixty years, the evidence for an ageing population is irrefutable and only time can tell how society will deal with the more sincere problems this will cause us to face in future years.
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