Insight Column
Our journalists pick a timeless concept, explain, analyse and dig deep. Enjoy
The Metaverse : Not Ready Player One
Eleanor Carmel| 18th November 2021
Are We Rational?
Aishi Basu | 28th September 2021
Can Economic Theory ‘Solve’ Chess?
Aishi Basu | 21st July 2021
Cultural Appropriation vs Appreciation: Where do we draw the line?
Anavi Hosaangaadi
Are footballers paid too much?
Lahari Paladugu | 3rd May 2021
Tax Avoidance: Myth or Reality?
Lahari Paladugu | 19th April 2021
Banning Semi-Automatic weapons: would it dramatically impact gun crime?
Tommy Williams | 16th April 2021
The Global Gender Gap: Why Is Worldwide Gender Equality One Step Further Away?
Nikita Karri | 13th April 2021
Referendums: Are They Undermining Our Democracy?
Josh Lamyman | 25th March 2021
GDP is a bumbling mess: Is it time to redefine economic development?
Nikita Karri | 20th March 2021
Amazon: Does it have too much control?
Flo Stephens | 16th March 2021
The Fraud at the Centre of UK Elections
Freddie Cooke and Stephen Skinner | 9th March 2021
One Belt and One Road to Africa
Luca Chandler and Alex Payling | 22nd February 2021
Is Castroism Dead In Cuba?
Will Cutlan-Smyth | 19th February 2021
Expensive and oily: what lessons can the UK take from Norway’s economy?
Jonny Philp | 11th February 2021
Why isn’t Globalisation Working For The ‘Bottom Billion’?
Flo Stephens | 10th February 2021
Post-war Socialism: An English Mistake?
Edward Hart | 25th January 2021
Big Tech: Do They Serve us, or do we Serve Them?
Will Cutlan-Smyth | 19th January 2021
Meritocracy: As good as it seems?
Freddie Cooke | 2nd January 2021
The Lies Behind The Big Short
Can we all get rich from shorting the stock market? Caspar Slee separates fact from fiction |15th December 2020
Unpicking The Gender Pay Gap.
Penny Zacharatou and Holly Harrisson | 20th December 2020
Current Affairs
News analysis, new headlines and breaking stories
Is decentralized finance destined for doom? – Examining the negative externalities of Bitcoin
Francis Kwame Adu | 11th October 2021
Post-Merkelism: A New Germany?
Elliot Wood | 3rd October 2021
The Covid-19 Crisis and an Incompetent Scottish Government: What Nicola Sturgeon Hopes You’ll Forget Before the Next Election
Harry Grieve | 29th July 2021
What’s happened after a year of Keir?
Nikita Karri and Eleanor Carmel | 27th April 2021
The Eurozone: looking towards a brighter future
Elliot Wood | 8th April 2021
Scottish Election: Why Scotland’s prosperity depends on SNP success
Josh Traynor | 6th April 2021
The Everywoman Who Struck The Nation’s Heart
Penny Zacharatou | 5th April 2021
Russia and The EU: Cold War 2.0?
Elliot Wood | 1st April 2021
Rising debt. Rising tax. Rising unemployment. Will the budget change anything?
Elliot Wood | 6th March 2021
The Reddit Revolution: Was it always poised to fail?
Freddie Cooke | 1st March 2021
Navalny: Putin’s Ballsy Blunder?
William Worthy | 27th February 2021
The Rise of Populism on the World Stage
Timothy Macy | 18th January 2021
From Israel to France: The Case For Free Market Incentives in Mass Vaccination
Freddie Cooke | 5th January 2021
The Storming of the Capitol: a Shameful Day for a Proud Democracy
Tommy Williams | 7th January 2021
Biden’s Minimum Wage Policy: A Blessing Or A Curse?
Freddie Cooke looks at not only the empirical evidence, but the practical ground to reject Joe Biden’s minimum wage hike | 3rd January 2021
CANZUK: The Second Coming of the British Empire or a Transatlantic Suicide-Pact?
Joe Alfieri looks into the arguments for and against the looming deal between the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada. |1st January 2021
Why Is The US Stock Market at an all time high…again?.
Henry Taylor | 29th December 2020
Controversy Column
Our journalists write in order to provoke thought through out of the ordinary opinions.
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Is Anarchism the Solution to the 21st Century?
Josh Lamyman | 24th September 2021
What the World needs to learn
from Donald Trump
Elliot Wood | 2nd March 2021
Black Lives Matter: They matter too much to have the Black Lives Matter organisation leading the charge
11th January 2021
Debate Column
Two writers. Opposite opinions. You decide who is more convincing.
Is It Time For Universal Basic Income?
Freddie Cooke and Anoushka Chawla | 20th April 2021
Proportional Representation:
Is it the Answer?
Freddie Cooke and Josh Lamyman | 12th March 2021
Should the UK take more immigrants?
Elliot Wood and Tommy Williams
The Student Economist Explains
Our journalists take a tricky piece of news and break it down into bite size chunks.
Game Stop a month on, what just happened?
Caspar Slee | Monday 1st March 2021