‘Politics Blog’ Archives
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
