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Back to SearchHow Easy is it to Dope in Sport?
The global effort to prevent athletes using performance-enhancing drugs is vast and sophisticated. You might think, in this era of advanced testing, it would be almost impossible to cheat and get awa…
Published on 10 years, 5 months ago
Has Austerity Worked?
The global financial crisis reignited an old debate - is it better to cut spending and raise taxes in an economic downturn, or spend your way out of it? After a period of relative consensus up to 201…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Would Greece Be Better Off Out of the Euro?
Despite the tense and increasingly bitter negotiations between Greece and its European creditors - who the Greek government accuse of demanding intolerable austerity – most Greek people want their co…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
What Does China Want From Space?
Fifteen years ago, manned space flight was still a dream for China. Now, they are looking to the moon. They have mastered space walking, they are building advanced scientific satellites in partnershi…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Will Anyone Help the Rohingya?
Shocking images have brought the Rohingya to the world’s attention - boatloads of people drifting aimlessly on the Indian ocean, sustained by bottles of water thrown to them by visiting journalists. …
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Is Opposition to GM Crops Irrational?
Ask a scientist, and they will almost certainly tell you genetically modified food is safe to eat. Yet an awful lot of consumers disagree. Is their fear of GM food irrational? Earlier this year the P…
Published on 10 years, 6 months ago
Who Can Fix Fifa?
Fifa has been described as a “totalitarian” set-up “beyond ridicule” with a leadership “incapable of reform or cultural change”. A corruption report is said to have contained “numerous materially inc…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Why Do US Cops Keep Killing Unarmed Black Men?
Recent high profile cases of unarmed black men dying at the hands of the US police have sparked outrage, protests and civil unrest in several American cities. The deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Why is South Africa Still So Unequal?
The violent riots on the streets of South Africa in recent weeks have seen foreigners killed, their shops looted and 5,000 left homeless. They are accused of taking jobs from locals in a country wher…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago
Is Cyber Warfare Really That Scary?
Last month Nato ran a military exercise involving over 400 people from 16 countries. It was the most advanced ‘live-fire’ cyber-defence exercise ever carried out. The point of it all? To help Nato co…
Published on 10 years, 7 months ago