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The 2010 General Election
It feels like there’s something important about tomorrow’s General Election. Perhaps it’s simply because over the past year or so, I’ve been more acutely aware of politics in Britain, and indeed the...
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University Fees
It’s hard to work out whether Cameron, Osborne, and Cable actually know what they’re doing or not. It wouldn’t be entirely surprising if, in their comfortable chairs in Westminster, they believe...
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Slutwalks…your thoughts, please.
Over the past couple of months, protest marches dubbed “Slutwalks” have begun to occur in numerous places around the world. I have some concerns about these protests, which I shall explain shortly, but...
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Poppies and the England Team
So, the England team have been banned from wearing poppies. That’s the way that the press are putting it, making it sound like England are being victimised. FIFA’s response is apparently that they...
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Las Malvinas son….whose?
Las Malvinas/The Falklands have recently been in the press quite a bit, mostly due to the 30th Anniversary of the Argentinian attempted liberation/invasion. Probably hyperbole drummed up by the presses...
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Deaths in Sport
This weekend, there was a sporting tragedy. Piermario Morosini, a footballer for Italian team Livorno, collapsed and died during a match against Pescara. There have been tributes to the player from all...
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Poetry in School
Dagnab it, I have to agree with a Tory politician on something. In this case, it’s Education Secretary Michael Gove’s proposal that children in schools should be learning poetry by heart. I think it’s...
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Alan Turing’s Centenary
He might have been 100 this coming weekend. You may or may not know who he is, but he was undoubtedly one of the most influential people of the 20th Century. And his demise is perhaps one of the most...
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Paulo di Canio…and Feminism?
The whole fascism furore surrounding Paolo di Canio had kind of died down now, partly because of his public statement that he isn’t fascist (and we’ll all have our own opinions on that), and partly...
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Flipping Genders
So first, this excellent article on gender-flipping. Secondly, a comment on it (or on part of it) from a male friend (entirly copied and pasted, his errors): Really!? Are you surprised that male super...
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Nelson Mandela
February 11th, 1990, 16:15 (GMT+2), I know where I was. Because it was a major, major event – in my part of the world somewhat more than most. Being only 11 at the time, I didn’t quite understand why,...
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The Scottish Referendum
The Scottish Referendum interests me greatly. My generation of fellow Englanders has only usually seen borders rearranged from a distance; they’re something that usually only happens to ex-Communist...
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Ruth Ellis
July this year will see the 60th anniversary of the last hanging of a woman in the United Kingdom. The woman was Ruth Ellis, a London nightclub hostess, divorcée and mother of two. Her crime was...
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The 2015 General Election
About this time in 2010, the run-up to the general election had a bit of a 1992 feel to it. Back then, when the protagonists were Kinnock and Major, was the last time that people had seriously talked...
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Boardroom Quotas
The idea of boardroom quotas, or any kind of employment quotas for women, will probably always be contentious. Accusations of “positive discrimination” will fly around, even from progressive people. I...
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Why I’m voting in – and why anyone proud to be British should do the same
On June 23, I think I’ll vote for the Kingdom of Northumbria to stay in the EU (the English Union). There are plenty of arguments against it, and I can understand them. The English Union isn’t perfect....
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