I know we’ve been over and over the topic of press freedom, but I’d just like to chip in for a moment and mention Page Three. For most people the topless girls splashed daily over the third page of The Sun are merely peripheral; the majority of the population don’t read The Sun. But the...
“A fire broke out at Rooster House on Bristol Road, Selly Oak, in the early hours of Sunday morning”, is what Redbrick news reporter Ashley Kirk said as the opening sentence of his article on the incident. Since then students have been ‘in mourning’ on social media networks and in public: a live band was...
I don’t know what it is about my online life, Facebook specifically, that thinks I am a massive racist. I only pose this question in response to Facebook’s repeated attempts to promote a group on my wall called ‘Infidels of Britain’. If you haven’t had a look at it already it’s a wonderful collection of...
13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013 Monday the 8th of April 2013 marked the death of the first female Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Baroness Thatcher caused enough argument and controversy when she was alive, so it was only fitting that her death, at the age of 87 would lead to the same. As I...
Right-wing politicians will tell you that careless public spending by left-wing politicians will create a political crisis, whereas left-wing politicians insist that the greed of wealthy and out-of-touch Etonians pose a larger problem. But, with the growth of both technological and service brands and their influence on the political agenda, the cause of a much...
The Grand National starts today and its controversial history has already been repeated with two horses already having died in the preliminary stages; one from a jump, the other from a suspected heart attack. There have been numerous attempts to make the races safer but these do not seem to be making any difference, with...
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