On the 15th March 2012, 30,000 students aged 11-16 took part in BBC’s News Day. They covered a range of stories which included the Queens diamond jubilee, the forthcoming London Olympics, bullying and even Ofsted reports. They also got the chance to quiz Health Secretary Andrew Lansley and the Prime […]

“In the Year of our Lord 1314, patriots of Scotland – starving and outnumbered – charged the fields of Bannockburn. They fought like warrior poets; they fought like Scotsmen, and won their freedom.” So ended Braveheart which provoked strong reactions worldwide, not least because it starred an Australian as one […]

Robert Bales, the married father of two, murdered in cold blood 16 innocent Afghans including nine children, and then set their corpses ablaze. He has been transferred to Fort Leavenworth military prison where he will be psycho-analysed by doctors who have experience of working with people like this. John Henry Browne, […]

Thomas Lubanga was found guilty of snatching children and using them as killers to maintain his grip on power over gold mines in Democratic Republic of the Congo’s Ituri region. Whilst Lubanga’s victims waited six years to get some sort of justice in some areas of the Congo he is […]

Having always been a strong supporter of the war in Afghanistan, when I awoke on Sunday morning to read the reports of a rogue US soldier in the Kandahar Province killing 16 innocent civilians, I could not help but re-question my own views and examine the potential futility of the […]

This article looks to explore the last words written by Marie Colvin, a renowned journalist for the Sunday Times. She wrote an article which contained a desperate plea for help from the western world to stop Bashar al-Assad, the Syrian president, and his army from the mass genocide that they […]

Within the past few days an internet sensation has struck the world in the form of Invisible Children’s Joseph Kony 2012 appeal. Never before has Facebook been utilised in such a manner that an idea has spread across it, around the entire world, in such a short amount of time. […]