Notice anything odd about this police officer? He caught my attention because he had covered up his identifying numbers with what appeared to be black tape. As you can clearly see they are not visible. When I asked him why I was repeatedly met with a stony silence. After Ian Tomlinson was attacked by a [...]
I was looking through the telegraph’s coverage of yesterday’s demo when I came across this little gem: In a disturbing trend, schoolchildren, many of them female, made up a significant number of the protesters, with many turning out in their school uniform. Golly! young women at DEMONSTRATIONS! Gosh, they’re not even debutantes. And where ARE [...]
Whether Lord Browne’s recommendations are implemented in full and the tuition fee cap is lifted completely or Vince Cable gets his way and it’s ‘only’ raised to 7 grand, it’s clear being a student is going to become pretty fucking expensive soon. And because of this, most of the discussion of these proposals so far [...]
Generally speaking we try on this blog to avoid getting involved in more tedious debates on the left blogosphere, and generally speaking it’s a good policy. However, I wanted to comment on something that’s been bugging me for a while. It’s a common offence, particularly amongst the commenters on Socialist Unity, but is often replicated [...]
It’s pretty much an open secret that the government is going to try and raise tuition fees sometime soon – universities minister David Willetts hinted as much earlier this week, but even that was hardly a surprise. We can also be pretty sure that any moves in this direction are going to face some strong [...]
In an exclusive interview with The Third Estate, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg sets out his vision for change It can’t be easy, being the leader of Britain’s third major political party. Caught between a disintegrating New Labour and a resurgent Conservative Party waiting for its coronation, convincing the British public that what you have [...]
TCS couldn’t organise a bumrape in a barracks and Varsity couldn’t be less hard-hitting if it were edited by Tim Henman
Around 2000 students, activists and trade unionists demonstrated in front of the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday. Led by workers from Tower Hamlets College, whose all out strike has won major victories, it marched under the slogan Jobs, Education and Peace. It was supported by the UCU, NUT, CWU, PCS and NUJ unions, as [...]
You know that you’re a bit behind the times when you’re blogging about an article that was published almost a month ago, but I’ve been busy recently, and was so incensed by this nasty little article I feel I should write something. On July 11 the Guardian Graduate section put out a piece about networking [...]
