This week in global news

Jessica Chow-Lau argues that we need proper financial understanding to judge David Cameron appropriately and get to the bottom of tax avoidance

The European Project has its flaws but has the potential to be so much better. Britain should be at the heart of it

The motion questions the democratic legitimacy of the current government, since “zero students voted Tory”

At a talk on the EU delivered to students at Exeter University, David Cameron was ambushed when a student suggested Cameron had ‘personal experience’ of tax avoidance

Yasmin Mannan gives an insight into the ways you can stand up for and help refugees and asylum seekers in Manchester and beyond

The Conservative’s successive undemocratic crackdowns on our freedom to protest are a sign of a government with little effective challenge

Ed John discusses the limitations of Cameron’s proposed prison reform and the overlooked issues that will only perpetuate themselves

The way the politicians and the media have conducted themselves inappropriately in relation to Syria means we have failed the matter at hand

Joel Kelly asks whether Cameron’s claim that there are 70,000 moderate opposition fighters in Syria will be his fatal undoing

Students in Manchester and across the country took to the streets while to protest while MPs debated whether to start military action against the IS in Syria

With the terror attacks in France, the footballing world comes together to stand by the side of the French

Chancellor Merkel’s response to the refugee crisis has been admirable, but Joel Kelly argues that we can’t expect Germany to take all the responsibility

George Bolton looks at how David Cameron’s PR-managed answers could be harming his credibility in the long run

Lower prosperity, lower educational attainment and higher suspicion. The legacy of slavery is still very much with us in our society today, writes Kyle Huggins

In order to tackle racial bias, the British government backs plans by UCAS to implement ‘name blind’ university application forms

Colm Lock, whose attendance at the Conservative Party Conference saw him egged by a protester, gives an exclusive insight into what it was like inside the ‘safe zone’, and his jump onto the front pages of national newspapers

Ben Farren discusses how the EU’s neo-liberal, corporatist agenda has polluted the organisation to its very core

Joely Thomas examines if there is more to the exclusivity of rugby and our political elites than we might think