November 2010
Rising tuition fees “drive students to study abroad”
The number of British students studying in the US has risen again. The Fulbright Commission says "rising tuition and and limited places in the UK drive students to study abroad."
Remember those that shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old
Remembrance Day is always a day that makes one particularly melancholic and not just for the most obvious reasons. In many respects Remembrance Day is meant to be a celebration rather than a time of sorrow and mourning; who can doubt the joy that many hundreds of thousands would have felt in 1918 when one of the most harrowing conflicts in modern history finally came to an end?
The CPS, judiciary and Yasmin Alibhai Brown just don’t get Twitter
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is well remunerated to exercise her opinions every week in her Independent column. Her free expression keeps a roof over her head, so you’d expect her to be forgiving when others exercise their rights. Sadly not. Whilst she didn’t call the police about Cllr Compton, she says she would have done so, and has backed up the CPS position that these tweets are “menacing”.
Expansionary fiscal contraction and the emperor’s clothes
George Osborne's policy of "expansionary fiscal contraction" is based on an economic myth. Britain's current economic circumstances mean it won't work.
Look Left – Real issues lost amidst the madness
The violent rage of a small minority overshadowed the quiet anger of the many as protests against the government's education cuts turned toxic this week. Fourteen people were injured and there were 50 arrests following the attack on the Tories' Millbank HQ on Wednesday, after a peaceful demonstration which saw 50,000 students march on Westminster demanding a rethink of plans to treble tuition fees and slash higher education funding. The violence was immediately condemned by the National Union of Students, NUS President Aaron Porter calling it "despicable".
Community action alone cannot meet elderly care challenge
A new report on social isolation in care homes has been launched by the Relatives and Residents Association (R&RA). The findings show that at least 40,000 elderly people in care homes in England are living in social isolation and that as many as 13,000 are completely 'without kith or kin' and receive no letters, calls or visits at all.