Does Prison Work?
Prisons were first created as a place to hold prisoners before trial. Over the years, it developed into a substitute for types of harsher punishments, such as corporal and capital punishment. In many countries, prison is the harshest punishment for anyone convicted of a criminal offence. However, whether this system works is debatable, as prison…
Can Nature Have Rights, Too?
The discussion of animal rights has garnered significant public attention over the years. The UK was the first country in the world to pass legislation aimed at protecting animals with ‘The Cruel Treatment of Cattle Act 1822’. Two hundred years on, it is not just the rights of animals that seem to matter, but the…
How Social Media Influences Politics
Have you heard of Gina Martin? She’s the person who changed the law on upskirting. Who helped her? Actually, the real question is ‘what helped her?’, because the greatest ally in her battle to make this a criminal offence was social media. After becoming a victim of upskirting, she posted her experience on Facebook and…
Is Euthanasia Ethical?
What would you do if your loved one was in a vegetative state for more than a decade? This is exactly what happened to Vincent Lambert in France. His relatives were torn between letting him live and letting him die. Although his wife and some relatives wanted him to die with dignity, his parents and…
The US Slavery Reparations Debate
I can’t breathe. Said over 20 times. For 9 minutes and 29 seconds, a police officer pushed his knee into an unarmed man’s neck. Until he died. George Floyd’s tragic death has reopened old wounds of racism all over the world, but especially in America. In the wake of the murder and the protests, the…
Orphanage Tourism
‘Some orphanages are set up literally to exploit children’. Here was JK Rowling saying that orphanages are horrible for children. I’ve always wanted to volunteer in an orphanage. I thought they were safe spaces for children where they could thrive. However, this could not be further from the truth. There are 8 million children in…
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