Track the course of the polls since the General Election, and you see a beautifully symmetric picture. At the top, Labour, seven points adrift in May, are neck and neck with the Tories. Below, the Liberal Democrats, level with Labour on the eve of the election, are in a dance of death with the thin [...]
Filed under: jonathanbirch, libdems, nickclegg, ukpolitics on November 30th, 2010 | No Comments »
No matter how hard I try, I can’t help defending the Liberal Democrats, a party for which I have no political affection. But, as students gather for more protests today, they once again need a reality check.
No single party won the general election, and the formation of a coalition government means that no party can [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized, electoralreform, libdems, tuitionfees on November 24th, 2010 | No Comments »
Cambridge’s Amnesty International group were out in force yesterday protesting the government’s policy towards the detention of asylum-seeking children, which many health practitioners have argued is detrimental to their mental and physical health, and may even violate the terms of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) - which the government [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on November 21st, 2010 | No Comments »
Last week recorded a first for Britain: the besieging and attempted forced entry into a political party’s headquarters by a mob. Although there may be some of us who sympathised with the objectives of the protest or attended in, hopefully, a thoroughly peaceful capacity, no reasonable individual can condone the level of violence and loutish [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on November 18th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The media have zoned in on the violence at the national student demo against tuition fees and cuts to education, which is not surprising. It is sad that I am even discussing it now, because the demonstration was otherwise a phenomenally strong message to the Government that the student movement was prepared to fight—and win—a [...]
Filed under: education, tuitionfees on November 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Before I set off on what is almost certain to quickly degenerate into a bad tempered, cynical right wing rant, fuelled by 6 hours of Anglo Saxon reading, it’s probably best to say a little bit about myself. I am a 2nd year historian at Clare, but more importantly I am something rarer than a [...]
Filed under: education, tuitionfees, ukpolitics on November 7th, 2010 | 5 Comments »
