Pressing your face up against a glass panel while tapping it, in order to encourage some kind of reaction from the life on they were some kind of exhibit; part of the other side is a phenomenon often associated with zoos.
- The Price of Information
Liking. Tweeting. Tumbling.
Liking. Tweeting. Tumbling. And now, the latest thing Pinning. Remember when social media was just about having a MySpace page?
The Student Consumer Price Index
The Student Consumer Price Index Project is a research project run by the LSESU Economics Society, and the third edition of the report will soon be published.
Inequality before the law
A friend, who had been pursuing a place at medical school, revealed to me that originally he wanted to be a lawyer.
Opening the books
Last Monday national business leaders met in Brussels for the first crucial round of talks debating upcoming European Union transparency legislation. The law was first proposed in late 2011 and was strongly backed by the UK and France and will be passed by the end of this year. But as groups in the EU meet…
Blogging about Europe
The blogosphere can hold complex Brussels to account with unexpected strength, and LSE students have the specific knowledge and power to make make real academic and critical impact. The term ‘Blogosphere’ inevitably and universally conjures images of dank bedrooms and dull, rambling opinion pieces. Doubly so since, being at this university, we find ourselves instinctively…
Lessons not learned
Rwanda of 1994 is a difficult topic to face. In order to accept that a side of human behavior so ugly may exist, we have to change our belief about humanity. And to accept that the world watched silently as men tore each other apart we have to stop believing in humanity. The genocide of…
Putin and Russian nationalism
Following on from an eight-year long presidency between 2000 and 2008 in which the now-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin developed a renewed sense of imperialist legacy and nationalism, Russia appears to have split. The integrity of the Russian government has been under strain from pro-democracy advocators and ethnic nationalists who have both taken to the streets…
Does Sarkozy still stand a chance?
In May 2012, French voters will return to the ballots, five years after electing Nicolas Sarkozy. This time, however, everything seems to be pointing at a Socialist victory. Francois Hollande, the Socialist candidate, has come first in every poll survey since he won the Socialist primaries in October 2011. In a recent survey by Opinionway,…
