Anger for Doomed Youth
Listening to George Osborne’s introduction to today’s Comprehensive Spending Review made me angry. Very angry. For all sorts of reasons. But the one that made me most angry was...
Review of Higher Education & Student Finance in England
Half a century ago just 6% of young people went to university, paid for through general taxation. The other 94% subsidised those 6%, but that was OK because the...
Conference Fragments – Mobilising the Jilted Generation
I spoke, along with Shiv Malik of ‘Jilted Generation‘, at the Young Greens fringe on ‘mobilising the jilted generation’. Shiv spoke eloquently about how Thatcherite liberalism has screwed today’s...
Conference fragments – Right decision on home education
When I first joined the Green Party back in the eighties you could almost put money on any debates about education being dominated by discussions on home schooling and...
Time to join a union
In light of today’s speech by Vince Cable, and several ominous articles in the press and on-line, it seems the UK’s science community is beginning to formulate a response....
Welcoming a Better Nation
James “Two Doctors” Mackenzie, Jeff “SNP Tactical Voting” Breslin and Malcolm “Malc in the Burgh” Harvey are well known faces in Scottish blogging. And now, they have launched a...
Caroline Lucas’s first mistake
There is a lot riding on Caroline Lucas, our first Green Party MP. Greens want to prove that there is more to them then recycling, that they can provide...
Education is a Public Good – We Should Fund it Publicly
“universities have a unique role. We cannot have an economically dynamic, socially mobile or culturally rich society without strong #8221; So started Vince Cable’s speech today at London South...
Cuts to legal aid risk its collapse
a guest post by Pete Speller, who blogs at the dead goat – where this originally appeared. Access to legal representation in the UK is a right, one that...
Behind the Smokescreen on Student Fees
This guest post by the ever excellent Sarah Morrison first appeared at Nick Clegg told Britain that he wanted a “clean, open, plural politics that…you can put your...