A-Level Results in England and Wales were released to students and the wider public today, indicating a rise in both the number of A-grades and the number of overall passes. Now, no doubt this will be claimed by some as a fall in standards, and by others as a major achievement. There will be the traditional [...]
N.B. This is the first of a number of posts from a recent trip to Eastern Europe. I’d hoped to put them up as I travelled, but technology and time got in the way. Eastern Europe is a land of myths and legends. I don’t mean the sorts of myths that the guide books [...]
Guest post by Jon Small The latest character from Sacha Baron Cohen’s entourage of grotesques to hit the big screen is Brüno, the gay-as-a-lamp-post presenter of Austria’s number one fashion show, Funkyzeit. Brüno began life as a minor character in Baron Cohen’s television shows for Paramount Comedy and Channel 4’s Da Ali G Show. As [...]
I spent last weekend where I spend the first weekend of every July, at the annual Marxism Festival, hosted by the SWP. Unfortunately, as ever, due to my various commitments (most notably organising the free creche), I didn’t get to see many of what I’m told were highlights. Nevertheless here are a few of my [...]
Twelve years too late, the leaders of the G8 agreed today to prevent global temperatures rising by more than 2C. An ‘acceptable’ temperature rise that will, according to the latest research, destroy half the rainforest. As some of the largest carbon sinks on Earth, after the oceans, the disappearance of the rainforests will make efforts [...]
There are times I wonder why I do it. Standing for hours in the queue at a remote train station in the depths of rural Somerset hauling what feels like the unfortunate result of an unseemly encounter between Jabba the Hutt and Dibley’s eponymous vicar on my back. Waking up to the sound of thunder [...]
It’s not all bad news for the left on June 4th. Coverage of European Parliament elections tends to be dominated by stories of far-right and Europhobic gains. However, if the latest polls are to be believed, it looks like the Green Party may stand to be the real winners in the coming elections. A poll [...]
