2015 has been quite a year. In this collaborative post IANS editors, staff writers, and contributors write about their most defining moment of 2015.
Read MoreAssessing the efficacy of Westminster's Lobbying Act in Scotland
Various campaign scandals have plagued Westminster over the last decade. Ostensibly to avoid a political landscape akin to the US, where special interests are unduly influential, the Conservative-led coalition government passed the controversial Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, or the Lobbying Act, in January 2014.
Read MoreFrom TMT to ISIS: Turkey conducts politics with the same old field manuals
Whether by shelling Kurdish fighters in Syria or downing a Russian fighter jet, Turkey undeniably seems more willing to protect and sustain ISIS rather than confront it. This shouldn’t come as a surprise because Turkey has been conducting politics with the same old field manuals for decades.
Read MoreReflections of a teaching graduate
As many readers will probably agree, graduating from university is a strange experience. One has to find their way in a new post-academic reality.
Read MoreEthiopia & El Niño: Will this time be Different?
Every seven to eight years or so, a major global weather event occurs – El Niño. Caused by a natural rise in oceanic temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean, El Niño triggers extreme drought and severe flooding across many parts of the world, but particularly in poorer countries.
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