Politics

By Ruby Zajac ‘¡Fuera Peña!’(Peña Out!) and ‘¡Fue el estado!’(It was the state) are two of the most common slogans in the revolutionary movement currently gripping Mexico. Five months ago, the president lost his already tenuous mandate to run the country, and most people I’ve spoken to don’t think there’s even any point in voting in the upcoming local elections - all the parties are in bed together, they tell me. The state’s involvement in the Ayotzinapa forced disappearances is...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Certainties are few and far between in this year’s General Election, but there are two things that can be said with relative comfort; we will have a hung Parliament, and SNP will take the majority, if not all, of Labour’s stronghold seats in Scotland. It is quite unusual for political parties to be this resigned to a coalition government this early on in an election campaign. Opinion polls suggest a single party...

By Max Bluer The Nisman case has re-opened the book on the 1994 AMIA bombings. Iran is the chief suspect, but few are asking why the Islamic Republic would blow up a building thousands of miles away. Check your calendars, just to make sure that it really is the year 2015, and that the Cold War ended over twenty years ago. The case of Alberto Nisman, the Argentine jurist murdered the day before he was due to publicly accuse President...

By Jack Peat, Editor of The London Economic Since the first International Women's Day was observed in the early 1900's there has been a great deal of progress in regards to gender equality, but a century on there's still a shameful amount  yet to be achieved. Cultures around the world will come together today to celebrate the achievements of women, this year's theme 'Make it Happen' draws clear references to equality in the workplace where research has found a stark imbalance...

By Joe Mellor, Deputy Editor PMQs began with both leaders arguing about how many immigrants are entering the UK. The assumption appears to be we that don’t want more people in the country, if that’s the case then both parties have failed; the Conservatives more recently. Luckily both leaders’ were saved by Farage, who had used his flagship speech earlier in the day to scrap his proposed 50,000 quota, and now looks as confused as everyone else, about immigration control....

Today's vlog will be about two new and complementary groups in Spanish politics, the Union, Progress, and Democracy grouping and the Ciutadans or Citizens party. In this edition of this vlog, I'll be analysing who these are, how they came about, the key personalities within these groups, the differences between these groupings, and the effect they will have on Spanish politics, both at a national and regional level. 

New research has revealed three-quarters of people aged over 60 believe they are "unseen and unheard" by the major political parties in a damaging blow to all concerned in the upcoming General Election. The report, released by Churchill Retirement Living, found just eight per cent of the 1,000 respondents are happy with how the government is treating our older generation and trust in politicians is slipping to an all-time low. More than half of respondents describe themselves as ‘frustrated’ about how they...

By Dr Katy Shaw  The Battle of Orgreave was one of the most violent and iconic moments of the 1984-5 UK miners’ strike. On 18 June 1984, a sunny summer’s day in Yorkshire, around 4000 miners clashed with around 8000 police outside a British Steel coking plant. Official police video accounts of the day show miners being directed into a field on site, before a violent confrontation ensued. Images of police officers on horse-back attacking miners on foot have since...

By Dr Katy Shaw This week marks the 30th anniversary of the end of the 1984-5 UK miner's strike. The strike was the defining industrial conflict of the post-war years in the UK. It began as a dual battle of revenge and replication as both factions, fueled by memories of their 1972/4 struggles, sought to rectify or revive past results. The ascension to power of the Left in the NUM signalled by the election of National Union of Miners (NUM)...