I feel that Climate Change and Foreign Aid are consequential issues. They have a profound affect on the nation, so I am currently researching them thoroughly and intend to post blogs as soon as I can!

This week I spoke to two Labour MPs at Westminster who has very different views on their jobs and what is going to happen with the upcoming election.



The first was Frank Field who has been a member of Parliament for Birkenhead since 1979. Frank Field has been in the media recently because of his maverick like tendencies, often being referred to as a very right wing Labour MP. Interesting, you would think that MPs would be concerned about their constituencies in the run up to an… Continue

One of the most recent examples of aid not getting to the people in recent times is the devastating earthquake in Haiti. It struck the area of Léogâne approximately 25km west of the capital Port-au-Prince on Tuesday 12th January 2010 at 16:53 local time. It measured 7.0 on the Richter scale and is estimated to have killed over 200,000 Haitians. “Haiti is an island [shared with the Dominican Republic] country of 8 million people, about the size of Maryland just 600 miles off the coast of… Continue

Overseas aid is one of the most controversial topics in the modern day and age in which we live, due to the oxymoronic complexity, yet inherent simplicity of it. Overseas aid is an immense area in which everyone seems to have a different view on it, and no one can decide what really works. However, everyone seems to agree with the Chinese proverb that the essential motive is, “To give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.” I feel very… Continue