PPE - Insights Blog

19/11/2021

🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT 🚨
Warwick Economics Society’s magazine, Assumptions, is joining forces with Warwick PPE Society’s magazine, iNSIGHTS, for an exciting project.
With climate change on the forefront of everyone’s minds thanks to COP26, it makes sense for our content call to be for all things climate - our theme: Regeneration.
We’re looking for a team of writers to dissect, explore and analyse our current climate crisis from an interdisciplinary perspective, either on their own or in collaboration with others.
We’re looking for students from all disciplines so please still apply even if you don’t study Economics or PPE!
For an exciting experience to apply your subject knowledge, build your editorial skills and to create something amazing, complete the application form below:
https://forms.gle/CuTEA4CNz4a3QQB36
The form will invite you to pitch what aspect or angle you will consider in your writing - we're not looking for a finished idea, just some thoughts on how you could contribute!
Deadline: 11:59pm 21st November

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11/08/2021

Are you involved in student activism? Have you got a story worth telling? Is there a cause you’d like to share?

Or, are you interested in a career in media? Do you enjoy asking the hard questions? Do you want to help people feel more informed? Do you have an idea for a fun and/or informative segment?

Warwick PPE Society is for and by students, so it makes sense that the podcast is the same. We’re looking for PPE students that we could interview on the podcast, as well as the PPE students that could interview them, or host a segment. We'd love you to be a part of the podcast, and in return, you’ll be able to demonstrate a variety of skills and share the stories that are most important to the student body.

The form for expressing your interest can be found below, and the deadline is the 31st of August. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to get in touch, otherwise, we’re looking forward to hearing you behind the mike!

https://forms.gle/yjEoYT99H566fnAP7

11/08/2021

Congratulations to all incoming Warwick Freshers for their amazing results! Warwick PPE Society is excited to see all of you very soon!

If you would like to be involved in one of the largest academic societies on campus, be sure to follow us on our social media pages:
https://linktr.ee/warwickppe

11/03/2021

The first of its kind - a collaboration between iNSIGHT’S Harry Ward and by Warwick Economics Society Emily Vaughan that incorporates all three of the PPE strands. The perfect way to end this mini-series of sharing the work of our talented iNSIGHT’S writers from our pioneering magazine, ‘Justice’.

It is commonly argued that rehabilitation is a more long-term form of the justice system. However, is it always better than punishment - the more traditional route for justice? Read more as these wonderful writers collaborate, sharing their views on why we should focus more on rehabilitation than punishment ...

As French philosopher Michel Foucault puts it , the late 18th century saw prisons starting to employ methods aimed at ‘disciplining the soul’, in combination with punishment, in an attempt to build a better and more progressive society. One method used to correct behaviour in this way is rehabil...

09/03/2021

PPE’s Kieran Barry suggests that “the North/South divide is not as harmless as it seems” - “the North has been left behind” due to current political factors. He urges for more to be done to promote equality between the regions.

Read more as he shares some historical context and personal experiences to solidify his views on northern discrimination and inequality in England ...

Perhaps the one piece of context needed for this article - I am a Northerner who has experienced the impact of the North/South divide. Our own university lacks Northern representation, and I hope to be able to bring attention to a societal issue which has perhaps not been fully considered by many in

24/02/2021

Did you know that approximately 6,000 stores in the United Kingdom have closed since the beginning of the pandemic? Is it true that larger companies have an unfair advantage? Do you think the British government has done enough to support these small and local businesses post-closure?

Read more as iNSIGHTS’ writer Dan Marks shares his views on whether we have done enough to support businesses during the ongoing pandemic ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on a number of injustices in every walk of life. One imbalance that has gained press attention in recent months is the plight of small firms and businesses. The pandemic has most severely affected businesses in service-based sector activities such as hospitality

22/02/2021

Did you know that it would take a person on an average UK income over 33,000 years to become a billionaire? Or that American billionaires have gotten $565 billion richer during the pandemic - a time when job security is at its weakest? Or even that Amazon paid £6.3 million in corporate taxes in the UK, despite its revenue amounting to over £13 billion?

Read more as PPE’s Shravan Gopal shares his thoughts on billionaires - and whether they are morally justified ...

People often underestimate how much a billion is. Just to put it into context, one billion seconds is 32 years : it’s a huge number. For a person on the average UK income, it’d take them over 33,000 years to be a billionaire. But even more amazingly, during a pandemic where millions of people ha...

20/02/2021

PPE’s Alyssa Gibbons claims that restorative justice “pose[s] an opportunity for reconciliation and understanding; qualities that are scarce in today’s world”. However, would you be willing to engage in such a modern form of settlement, especially in the digital age?

Read more below to learn about its relevance in the era of social media ...

In our volatile and tumultuous social media-scape, outrage and frustration are seemingly becoming more common as we descend deeper and deeper into a post-truth rabbit-hole. Outcries over so-called “cancel culture” - who knew holding people to account for their views was so divisive - and the gen...

28/01/2021

“Fines are typically set as a fixed number for equality, but often at the expense of equity” says Walter Lam, a fellow PPE-ist. He believes that day-fining is the just way to go!

Click below to hear his thoughts ...

What usually comes to your mind when you receive a fine? Dread, regret, or just a shrug? Well, it actually all depends on your income. So this brings upon a fundamental PPE problem: is the law we are abiding to just, and why? Let me take this opportunity to introduce and contend for day-fining below

21/01/2021

Is handing out free money a sustainable government policy? Would we still work if we received basic income? Is the supposedly universal concept even relevant in today’s age?

PPE’s Rishab Jain offers us some answers in the society’s first magazine in collaboration with assumptions. Basic income - what will we do about you?

Basic Income is easily one of the most ambitious ideas of this century. The first evidence of this idea can be found in Thomas Moore’s Utopia - written 500 years ago! - but even now, the definition of basic income in itself is disputed. For the purpose of this article, basic income will be defined...

02/01/2021

We're thrilled to announce that our magazine in collaboration with Assumptions by Warwick Economics Society has officially been PUBLISHED! 🎉

Together, our writers have tackled one of the most relevant topics of today - ⚖️ justice ⚖️ - with discussions stretching from the ethics of the day-fine system, to the intertwined nature of restorative justice and social media.

We will be sharing the articles individually over the next few weeks, but in the meantime, check out the link below for some amazing reading.

All our thanks to the amazing Assumptions team, and of course, our world-class iNSIGHTS writers; keep a close eye on our page to make sure you don’t miss any articles! 👀

The fight for justice can be economic, political, or moral, but it is often rooted in a sense that existing conditions are unfair, and an overwhelming need to fix them. This year has proved this, as the fight for justice has moved people out into the streets in protest, and has sparked fiery debate....

03/11/2020

🚨OPPORTUNITY ALERT🚨

Looking for an exciting opportunity to use your PPE knowledge, build your editorial skills, and create something AMAZING?

We are offering ANY STUDENT FROM ANY YEAR the chance to join a collaborative team between iNSIGHTS and Assumptions by Warwick Economics Society, who will work together to produce a magazine!

Think this sounds like something you’d enjoy? Check out the Application Form below for more info!

DEADLINE: 11:59pm, Sunday 8th November

Warwick PPE Society's iNSIGHTS Blog has an exciting upcoming magazine collaboration with Assumptions, the magazine for Warwick Economics Society - more details will follow in future... If you would like to get involved in this exciting new project, please fill out the form below! NO EDITORIAL EXPERI...

30/08/2020

“Despite its flaws, the Government’s final policy decision to use predicted grades to determine the 2020 A-level results was the correct one, even if the decision was made when cowering from the snarls of the media and opposition parties.”

Harry Ward offers an insightful critique of the UK Government’s response to exam results this year - check out the article below!

I feel confident to say that I am not the only PPE student that thoroughly enjoyed watching the BBC’s The Thick of It. The arguments, the chaos, the incom

22/07/2020

Wishing all the best to today's graduating Class of 2020; we thought we'd share with you Harvard's 2020 Commencement Address (streamed from Conan O'Brien's backyard) to inspire you to dream big, and enjoy life's adventures.

Conan trades his shorts for a graduation robe to share some words of encouragement (and foolishness) with Harvard’s graduating seniors. More CONAN @ http://t...

08/07/2020

Asking questions about legitimacy, freedom, and the very foundations of our modern society, Stéphane Legrand offers us a thrilling PPL-focused conclusion to our recent series on the EU in Confessions of a PPL* Mind: The Flawed Skeleton of the EU.

* Practically Perfect and Law-abiding

💡 If you’re feeling inspired by this fantastic series and feel you’d like to submit an article of your own, just pop the PPE - Insights Blog page a message – we’d love to share what you have to say!

* Practically Perfect and Law-abidingIt is very easy to be utterly bored by the ossifying nature of revising for a law exam. The sheer length, the density

07/06/2020

is not just a hashtag - it's a movement signifying a step closer to the end of systemic racism.

Take a look at these powerful recommendations from Perspectives to help educate yourself and others about the reality of the world around us.

Perspectives stands firmly behind the Black Lives Matter movement and we believe that we can all do more to educate ourselves.

To that end, the editorial team have collated a series of book recommendations that we found helpful in answering many relevant questions, from Frantz Fanon's powerful analysis of the psychological effects of colonialism to Afua Hirsch's exploration of what it means to be British today.

Many of these books can be found in the Warwick University online library for free, so please do check these out.

22/05/2020

Looking for something to keep you occupied as lockdown continues? Here's an update about our fantastic CONFESSIONS OF A PPE* MIND series, offering a perceptive and relevant take on the future of the European Union...

⚖️ PHILOSOPHY: What have you done, EU? https://www.warwickppesociety.co.uk/single-post/2020/04/07/Confessions-of-a-PPE-Mind-What-have-you-done-EU

📉 ECONOMICS: What have you done, Euro? https://www.warwickppesociety.co.uk/single-post/2020/04/15/Confessions-of-a-PPE-Mind-What-have-you-done-Euro

♟ POLITICS: Who are you, EU? https://www.warwickppesociety.co.uk/single-post/2020/04/22/Confessions-of-a-PPE-Mind-Who-are-you-EU

🌎 INTERDISCIPLINARY: What will you become, EU? https://www.warwickppesociety.co.uk/single-post/2020/05/05/Confessions-of-a-PPE-Mind-What-will-you-become-EU

08/05/2020

; a moment to pause, and remember the value of liberty.

05/05/2020

Bringing together the three disciplines in her conclusion to CONFESSIONS OF A PPE* MIND, Sziszi Andrasi offers us her views on tomorrow’s European Union - either we build a stronger, more unified EU community, or we face inevitable collapse.

What do you think?

* Pretentious, Posh and EgoisticHere we are; lockdown is still not over, but neither are our exams. However, it is time for me to end my confessions about the

22/04/2020

Elitism and populism; two very different concepts, yet irrefutably intertwined.

This week, CONFESSIONS - Who are you, EU? offers an analysis of the EU’s political identity, asking whether it is possible to rebuild lost trust and support from countries like the UK.

* Pretentious, Posh and EgoisticPOLITICSOne thing I will never forget about Intro to Politics is Kettell discussing the question of “what is politics?” -

15/04/2020

Is economics a bubble? Has the Single Market been successful? How will the Eurozone deal with the implications of the ‘Great Lockdown Recession’?

PPE's Sziszi Andrasi, in conjunction with Assumptions editor Will McMahon, offers us some solutions in the second edition of CONFESSIONS OF A PPE* MIND - What have you done, Euro?

* Pretentious, Posh and EgoisticECONOMICSHaving had the opportunity to choose my pathway in Warwick PPE, I was guided by the idea that an Economics pathway wil

07/04/2020

The biggest question PPE students get asked; aren’t you afraid that all the knowledge you’re learning is irrelevant? What’s the point in theory if it doesn’t apply to reality?

Sziszi Andrasi offers us her views in the first of a series of articles applying this question to the EU, an institution core to our modern society.

Check out her first article tackling the philosophy of the EU’s values in CONFESSIONS OF A PPE* MIND

* Pretentious, Posh and Egoistic

* Pretentious, Posh and EgoisticAs a second year PPE student, choosing Economics and Philosophy as my pathway, I often come across the question: ‘Aren’t you af

23/03/2020

As society comes together in the face of COVID-19, Olivia Vail offers us a discussion of its potential philosophical implications on society as we know it.

Warwick PPE Society sends all our love to those impacted by the virus; remember to stay safe, practice social distancing, and wash your hands. We’ll get through this together.

It took two months. Society as we know it has almost collapsed. A-levels are cancelled; Spoons is closed

24/02/2020

For the final article of my term as forum coordinator, I present to you Arthur Kleinman 's very insightful overview of the Libyan conflict, with sour expectations for a political solution in the near future.

Last month, leaders and senior government officials from eleven countries – most of which being major global powers – attended a UN summit in Berlin. Among the

03/02/2020

Macroeconomics, institutions, instability and the financial system. Should we really be thinking in this way about the economics of our world? Rethinking Economics think we shouldn't and our collaborator, Ali Lohdi, is here to tell us why.

Economics, as a field of academic inquiry, has of late been the subject of much ire. Messrs journalists and practitioners of neighboring social sciences have,

10/01/2020

Straight from Beijing, our very own foreign correspondent PPEist Joshua Chan talks about the historical power relationships between Hong Kong and China from a Machiavellian leadership lense, by which, for a prince,it is better to be feared than to be loved.

On Christmas day 1991, Mikhail Gorbachev, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union called president Bush of the United States to wish h

04/01/2020

In the midst of the British post-election political turmoil, Mihir Joshi gives us his views on how, without focusing more on local interests, Labour will continue losing support.

Laura Pidcock is insufferable. The moral indignation, the rage behind her beady eyes, the calls to ‘never befriend a Tory’ and the apologism for antisemitism c

29/12/2019

We are out with a very special Christmas Special! Tom RegistertoVote Westgarth discusses generational discrepancies and shifting world views over turkey or vegan alternative.

Dinner tables across the country were engaging in cultural conflicts that set the tone for the coming years of societal discourse.Returning home for Christmas

26/12/2019

If yesterday's Christmas Dinner didn't satiate your craving for information, we are back on Boxing Day with some food for thought. Our very own Juicy Pineapple gives us his reflections on the recent General Election, with exclusive insights on the future of Great Britain.

12th December sparked a historic realignment in the United Kingdom. Boris Johnson won a ‘stonking majority’ of 80 seats, the largest Conservative Majority sinc