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Is tax theft?

Is tax theft?

Gauri Khanna ‘Individuals have rights, and there are things no person or group may do to them (without violating their rights)’. In the opening line of Anarchy, State and Utopia, Robert Nozick lays the foundation for the libertarian assertion that no state more extensive than the minimal one can be

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo’s revolutions and digressions

Les Misérables - Victor Hugo’s revolutions and digressions

Stanley Hardy About one thousand pages into Les Misérables, Victor Hugo disrupts the main narrative to ask a question: ‘What constitutes an emeute, a riot?’ He then proceeds to answer that question: ‘Nothing and everything. An electricity gradually released, a flame suddenly leaping forth, a drifting force, a passing wind.

Why is the UK government so afraid of inflation?

Why is the UK government so afraid of inflation?

Anya Bansal With the cost of living crisis and prices drastically rising everywhere, inflation seems to be one of the largest issues facing the UK right now. Prices have risen by 10.1% in the twelve months leading up to February 2023. This figure continues to rise month after month

Why is the UK government so afraid of inflation?

Why is the UK government so afraid of inflation?

Evan Lam The UK government (along with many other governments) is getting increasingly concerned about the rise of inflation. Inflation is the general rise in prices of services and goods over a period of time. High inflation is bad for several reasons, such as reduced spending power, decreasing value of

By Lizzie Johnson: Interview with the wife of a hunger striker protesting against the IRGC

Old Nottinghamian, Lizzie Johnson, wrote an eye-opening article about the struggle to pressure the UK government to consider the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terrorist group. Through interviewing the wife of a British-Iranian hunger striker, she explored the importance of his work in not only promoting freedom in Iran,

Do the positives of democracy outweigh the negatives?

Do the positives of democracy outweigh the negatives?

Marcus Jamnadas-Khoda Democracy dates back thousands of years. Believed to have begun in the city-state of Athens by Cleisthenes, [1] it originally comes from two Greek words: the word ‘demos’ meaning people, and the word ‘kratos’ meaning power. Therefore, democracy can be thought of as ‘power to the people’ – a

Do we still live in a time of political populism?

Do we still live in a time of political populism?

Anika Khanna What happens when people feel their voices are not being heard by the political and economic elites? The answer, it seems, is political populism. In recent years, we have seen a growing number of political movements that claim to represent the interests of regular people against the established