I thought I’d weigh in on the debate over Scottish independence. Despite the hackneyed plea that we must learn lessons from history, the simple truth is that it is never clear what history is supposed to tell us: some people choose to cite Britain’s imperial past as proof that the countries are stronger in the [...]
Filed under: identity, scotland, uspolitics on January 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
(yes, I do realise I’m using a baseball metaphor as a headline for a post about football. Just ignore it)
So Gordon Brown has apparently said he’ll support England in the 2018 World Cup. Aside from the fact that caring about the 2018 World Cup 11 years beforehand is completely ridiculous, why is this [...]
Filed under: gordonbrown, scotland, ukpolitics on January 20th, 2007 | No Comments »
Reading Will’s post on constitutional reform, I can’t help but disagree with almost all of it (hello by the way, my name is Owen, the final member of the Clare politics. Like Patrick and Will, I’m a history student, a point which may become apparent in the course of this post…)
The Union is a bizarre [...]
Filed under: constitution, scotland, ukpolitics on January 19th, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Reaching near saturation with the current political debate on the U.K and its apparent imminent disintegration, I have been left asking why we have let ourselves get into such a constitutional mess? Since labour’s introduction of devolution, we have been trying to set up regional governments to represent the four nations, which make up this [...]
Filed under: constitution, scotland, ukpolitics on January 19th, 2007 | No Comments »
Proposals are being discussed by the government to raise the school leaving age from 16 to 18 (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6254833.stm). 76% of this age-group are already in education, so this policy is aimed at the remainder who are entering the labour market without specific skills. While it could be seen as a push to give the UK [...]
Filed under: education on January 18th, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Well, I finally got up the courage to actually write something in the intimidatingly blank textbox, but I fear it won’t be very substantial just yet. I’ll start small by introducing myself and work my way up to expounding my flawless Theory of Everything. I’m Patrick, a first-year history student, which means I don’t know [...]
Filed under: history on January 18th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
We’re very sorry to announce that we have had to postpone tonight’s event. Unfortunately the trains between Cambridge and London have been cancelled owing to the severe weather and our guest has no other means on making itto the meeting in time.
We have rescheduled the event for later in the term - in the [...]
Filed under: clarepoliticsnews on January 18th, 2007 | No Comments »
Here he is, the dreamy candidate.
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Those of you who are fans of The West Wing (or, rather, those of you who are as obsessed with a fictional TV show as I am and probably in need of some psychiatric help) may remember the Season 7 episode (called ‘The Cold’, in case anyone cares) where Matthew [...]
Filed under: election2008, uspolitics on January 18th, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Even though my head was protesting horribly this morning at the thought of doing anything creative today whatsoever, I decided it might be a good idea to at least vaguely introduce myself before forcing my sometimes-witty-but-not-very-often writing upon you. I’m Liz, a first-year SPSer (that fact alone explaining why I have the time to blog!); [...]
Filed under: uspolitics on January 18th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Welcome to the Clare Politics blog, new for 2007. We have a great team of student bloggers assembled and ready to post - you’ll be able to read their first posts in the next day or so. We hope that the blog will extend and elaborate on the discussions that already take place at our [...]
Filed under: clarepoliticsnews on January 17th, 2007 | No Comments »
