August 2025

From the myths of ancient Greece to the headlines of today, humans have always worried that clever inventions might one day make us redundant. In Homer’s epics, the god Hephaestus crafted self-moving tripods that sparked awe and unease in equal measure – an early echo of our modern anxiety about intelligent machines. Centuries later, the […]

The issue of Scottish independence seemed to be at the forefront of politics in the 2010s – the SNP dominated Scottish government and calls for an independent Scotland flooded the mainstream media. However in recent times the independence movement has seemingly lost its steam, with a vote to remain in the UK in 2014 and

The city of Nogales is split into two, divided by the USA-Mexico border. Both parts of the city are culturally very similar and geographically the same; the same agricultural products can be grown and achieve similar yield either side of the border. Yet, the income inequality between the north and south of the city is