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Afghanistan - Great Game or Great Graveyard

Afghanistan – Great Game or Great Graveyard? Former Diplomat and Soldier, Tom Meek analyses the broader picture. Setting the scene. So, the Great Game continues? With the US withdrawal, slightly peremptory and unprepared perhaps, Afghanistan is once again explicitly back in play in that tricky region where regional and superpowers have practised their plausibly deniable proxy campaigns in the past. ...

Published on 24 Aug 2021

The Anthropocene? A human-dominated era.

The climate crisis has had a profound effect on today’s society; however, this is something that has been a problem for many decades and not enough change has been enforced to ensure a positive outlook for the future of the planet. A report published by the US based National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and NASA has confirmed that 2010...

Published on 15 Jun 2021

Thank you for voting Renew in London

In what has been one of the longest election periods in UK history, The Renew Party’s 2021 Mayoral Candidate, Kam Balayev, secured a vote share exceeded that the party's expectations. 22,500 people voted for Renew as either their first or second choice.

Published on 11 May 2021

Freeports: a good thing for the UK or a bad thing?

Now that the dust has largely settled following the budget last month, we can look more objectively behind some of the headline measures. Renew’s business spokesperson, Gary Burke, considers “freeports” and whether they justify the fanfare given by the chancellor, Rishi Sunak.

Published on 30 Mar 2021

Dangerous Flammable Cladding and Student Halls: How worried should we be?

As 2021 gets underway, COVID, Brexit, and global politics still dominate the headlines. Meanwhile, Grenfell fire passed its third anniversary in 2020, and the enquiry still rumbles on, uncovering fresh scandals along the way. The Bolton Cube fire, in which a student accommodation block burned down, had its first anniversary in 2020. Thankfully, no one died in the Bolton fire,...

Published on 14 Feb 2021

After Grenfell: Big Profiteers and the Cladding Crisis

When firefighters arrived at Grenfell Tower at 1 am on June 14 2017, they found a fire that blazed for days and claimed the lives of 72 people. The embers in the tower eventually cooled. However, the socio-economic impact from the fire roars on for hundreds of thousands of UK residents to this day. Grenfell triggered an intense phase...

Published on 10 Feb 2021

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Afghanistan - Great Game or Great Graveyard

The Anthropocene? A human-dominated era.

Thank you for voting Renew in London

Freeports: a good thing for the UK or a bad thing?

Dangerous Flammable Cladding and Student Halls: How worried should we be?

After Grenfell: Big Profiteers and the Cladding Crisis