‘Blogs’ Archives
HSLive website to face the knife once more
Just a quick note to say that the Huddersfield Student website will once again be undergoing a facelift. Thanks to a little help from our Fashion Editor we've managed to locate someone who knows what he's doing when it comes to websites. I'm pleased to announce that, towards the end of this academic year - date TBC - we will be launching, in [...]
The Tories: the ‘modern and hip party’ or just a stylistic facade?
In my never-ending quest to stay objective and call contemporary politics as I see it, combined with the modern culture of social-networking, a while back I became a fan of the ‘Conservatives’, ‘the Labour Party’ and the ‘Liberal Democrats’ fan pages, to get up to date news in my Facebook news feed from each of the parties. Granted the [...]
Earlier draft sent to print
Though the January issue of the newspaper is receiving good feedback from all who have spoken to me, and though I am happy that it is looking good and starting to contain more news and features that our readers have asked for, there are a number of errors in the edition that need to be addressed. In an editorial confusion, the penultimate draft [...]
HSLive poll gets higher response than UHSU by-elections
If you turn to page 17 of the latest edition of Huddersfield Student (November/December 2009 if you're reading this in the future), I would like to draw your attention to a Comment & Debate article by yours truly, entitled 'Communication, not apathy, is the cause of poor turnout'- or words to that affect anyway. Two days ago I set up a poll [...]
My take on the BBC’s Question Time with Nick Griffin
Welsh Secretary Peter Hain has recently been quoted, saying he believes Nick Griffin feels that the BBC have given him an early Christmas present, and that he should not be allowed on Question Time. The question came to my mind: who the hell is he to say who should and should not be on the BBC? The BBC is supposedly a sovereign media [...]
Tuition fees: Debt or graduate tax?
Keeping in line with the October edition of the newspaper, I thought that I would share my thoughts about student loans with you. Whilst surfing the web about the system which I will soon have to take part in, I came across some wonderful facts- the most important of which are these. Firstly, there are an estimated 3.3 million outstanding [...]
Apologies to Rob Evans
It has been brought to my attention that in the October version of our paper I've accidentally miscredited two of the articles in the music section. In the blur that now is Tuesday, deadline day, the articles on page 21, for some reason or other, were incorrectly credited to Ash Martin. Apologies to Rob Evans, who actually wrote the [...]
Huddersfield Student of the future
Yesterday saw the start of a whole new aspect of life at Huddersfield Student HQ- as if our website launch wasn't big enough. I've had confirmation from VP Education & Welfare that we can stream the General Election debate live online. Yes, this was done at the last debate so I'm sure you'll remain relatively unimpressed, but we'll be [...]
What is the Huddersfield Student?
I was given this blog to rant on things that crop up of a political nature, so here it goes: censorship is something that every paper will eventually have to face and, whilst looking through the archives of the Huddersfield Student, I found a front page article which made me think. It was from 2003. The President of the time had stepped in at [...]
The media misinforms. Fact.
I applied to be the politics sub-editor because modern media frustrates me. I am sick and tired of purposefully misconstrued facts to push further the agenda of the media conglomerates. The media no longer consistently bases its arguments in facts, but in opinions disguised with facts - certain facts having somewhat dubious backgrounds. For [...]
