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The movement is like a mosaic - it is Turkey »

Turkey protest

Gezi park, adjacent to Istanbul’s Taksim Square has, by now, become a free town. More than 30 barricades surround the occupied square, making it impossible for the police to penetrate. At the moment, Gezi park is unlike anything I would have imag...

Sun 09 Jun 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

When everywhere is Taksim »

Barricade near Taksim Square, Istanbul

“Everywhere is Taksim, everywhere is in opposition.” This is the chant of solidarity that has been spreading across the city centres, parks and streets of Turkey. What began on 28 May as an environmental protest against the Istanbul mu...

Sun 02 Jun 2013 by Bentley Yaffe in Izmir Province | Read more »

Booze and academia - fostering academic communities among students »

Pub quiz

At the beginning of this semester I went to a cinema with my tutorial group to watch a screening of Lincoln, the Oscar award-winning film. We gathered at the cinema bar before the film and got to know each other better. After the film, we went for anot...

Thu 25 Apr 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

Pound, Euro or Bawbee? »

Bank of Scotland

The debate over independence threatens to be bogged down in speculation about how the economic system will adapt rather than whether a constitutionally independent Scotland will deliver better outcomes for Scots than the Union. Within this wider debat...

Thu 25 Apr 2013 by Prof Catherine R. Schenk | Read more »

Yes Scotland - The Economy »

Yes Scotland campaigners at Glasgow Uni on mock independence referendum polling day

To quote the renowned economists on the Fiscal Commission Working Group: "By international standards, Scotland is a wealthy and productive country."So it still surprises me when people ask, ‘but what has Scotland got?’ Students across Edin...

Thu 25 Apr 2013 by Blair Jenkins | Read more »

Better Together - The Economy »

Alistair Darling

I believe that we are better together with our friends, families and workmates from across the United Kingdom. Our companies and businesses sell more goods to England, Wales and Northern Ireland than we do to all the other countries in the world combin...

Thu 25 Apr 2013 by Alistair Darling | Read more »

Dissecting BBC Panorama's North Korea coverage »

Pyongyang

‘North Korea Undercover’, the latest episode of the BBC’s investigative programme Panorama, reflects the wider problem with the tone of coverage of the Korea crisis: an obsession of our western media with reporting the general backwar...

Thu 25 Apr 2013 by John Steel | Read more »

If at first you don't succeed... »

Things can only get better. It’s worrying how just one sentence can conjure up an image of New Labour so quickly. That aside, its an aphorism that the British have relied upon for quite some time. The cuts, austerity, the economy, state funerals,...

Thu 25 Apr 2013 by Jamie Timson | Read more »

The many ways to peel an orange »

As a student, you often come into contact with a variety of different people, often offering a variety of different services. This is no more so the case than during the exam period, when all normality goes out of the window, and vast conversations can...

Thu 25 Apr 2013 by Edinburgh Anonymous | Read more »

Deconstructing political beliefs and football »

Paolo Di Canio

Paolo Di Canio remains to this day a cult hero in the eyes of the Irriducibili — one of Lazio’s numerous ultra-sections — both for his talents on the football field and his persistent, if tenuous, links with the fa...

Tue 02 Apr 2013 by Michael Mawdsley | Read more »

Fight against campus devaluation of women »

Kelley Temple, women's officer, NUS

I got involved in my student politics because I was sick of women’s contributions being devalued in my students’ association. I was bored of seeing it in wider politics and tired of the way women’s liberation gets sidelined when women...

Thu 28 Mar 2013 by Kelley Temple | Read more »

Climate change policy in Scotland »

The Scottish Government is considering climate change policy as an integral part of the Scottish Constitution, which would be Scotland’s main official document if independence is achieved. Other countries such as India, Poland and Argentina also ...

Thu 21 Mar 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

Energy and Independence »

North Sea oil rig

It is forty years ago since the rallying cry was first heard: ‘It’s Scotland’s Oil!' What a very different energy world it is today and how odd such a cry would sound now. Amid all of the talk of independence, the global energy landsc...

Thu 21 Mar 2013 by Peter Cameron | Read more »

Editorial: Putting Crema and McAsh motions in perspective »

George Square Lecture Theatre, where the emergency general meeting (EGM) is taking place

Some long-overdue perspective is needed ahead of tonight’s emergency general meeting regarding the no-confidence motions against EUSA president James McAsh and EUSA vice president service Max Crema. The Journal does not endorse a vote either way...

Wed 06 Mar 2013 | Read more »

Will Scottish independence cause a domino effect? »

Anyone for dominoes?

Crucial to Berlusconi’s shocking resurgence at the recent polls is a party with one eye firmly on Scotland and the independence debate: the right-wing Lega Nord (The Northern League). Despite seeing its vote halve since the last election, the par...

Wed 06 Mar 2013 by Vincent Manancourt | Read more »

The great evil of our time »

Beige: The greatest evil of our time?

I hate beige. The colour, the tone, the texture. Everything about the colour beige. Is it even a colour? It’s more a general mood, an apathy, an absence of originality. Its not white, its not even cream, its just beige. People who wear beige clo...

Wed 06 Mar 2013 by Edinburgh Anonymous | Read more »

Letter: The Student editors respond to Crema op-ed »

We are writing to express our displeasure over the article written by Max Crema, published in the 20 February edition of The Journal. Due to the legal action taken against us by EUSA, we are unfortunately unable to fully respond to the article in ques...

Wed 06 Mar 2013 by Alistair Grant & Nina Seale | Read more »

Social policy in an independent Scotland »

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If you were given the chance to take over the £15bn a year that the UK Government spends on pensions and benefits for Scotland, would you want it? Would you be happy to make the choice about whether to pitch benefits at the same level as the rest...

Wed 06 Mar 2013 by Richard Parry | Read more »

A National Convention for Scotland »

Shadow Foreign Secretary, Douglas Alexander

For all that we may comfort ourselves that "We're all Jock Tamson's Bairns" for too long in Scotland too many voices have simply not been heard. Voices of those left behind, the marginalized, the poor, the young. Voices too of our entrepreneurs, our th...

Wed 06 Mar 2013 by Douglas Alexander | Read more »

Trying to build a New Jerusalem: social policy in Scotland before devolution »

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On 23 January The Journal argued that the project of building a modern welfare state appealed to Scotland; not only did the Scottish people benefit massively from public housing, NHS, state benefits and so on, but they were also proud to be part of sha...

Tue 05 Mar 2013 by Jon Vrushi | Read more »

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