To BULS; from New Zealand with love

A short, slap-dash, and ultimately unsuccessful campaign came to an end today. I was running for the position of “Website Editor” of Birmingham University Labour Students – effectively to become the master of their blog. The campaign was run from the free computers in the reception of a backpackers hostel in Dunedin, New Zealand – [...]

Chamberlain’s Legacy

A continuation of “the January-February blogs” series… Student Unions are not the natural home of rational policies, of common sense, or of idelogy-free dialogue. It is therefore with great pleasure that I heard, against my expectations, that Joe’s bar in the University of Birmingham Guild of Students in to retain its name. The bar was [...]

Guest post: DemocracyFAIL

There follows a Guest post courtesy of Jed Bormann, Anti-Nasty things and Pro-Kitten Officer at the University of Fibchester Student Union. I apologise in advance for some of the more colourful language employed by Mr. Bormann. ********************************************************************************************************   Democracy? I mean, what the Fuck? The representatives on our student Union are a total herd of cuntweasels! Why? [...]

10 for 2010

Well, Iain Dale did one, so have other Tory bloggers. The Guardian had some of its columnists do a nice video on the topic. I thought I’d follow suit and other some speculative and pointless predictions for the year ahead in the political world: 1) The 2010 UK general election will be held in May [...]

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