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Kent is closing its school libraries, according to the Daily Telegraph. It’s the third local authority to take this cost-cutting measure, with two more following suit next year. All I can say is, what a terrible shame. At secondary school I was a heavy user of the library to say the least, some might say [...]

Gordon met Gillian, now Dave’s just met Elizabeth. Mr Cameron is our new Prime Minister and the end of the world is nigh, or at least it is if you believe some people I know. In the age of slacktivism, facebook is littered with friends – even the Christian ones – “crying”, “afraid”, “mourning”, “doomed” [...]

Dear Nick Clegg, I grew up in Sheffield Hallam, and am now at university in York. The Lib Dem PPC for York Outer, Madeleine Kirk, repeated Baroness Tonge’s disgraced and debunked allegations of organ farming in Haiti by Israel, and also stated that “the power of the Jewish lobbies in Washington and Britain” are the [...]

The Daily Telegraph have gone in for some creative headline writing today. This makes Alistair Darling jokes look tame, I love it! It links to this comment piece about how Cameron’s conservatives are targeting Edd Balls’ seat in an attempt to create a ‘Portillo moment‘.

Tony Blair, it turns out, was James Callaghan, part of the good old, Same Old Labour.

That’s right, the Social Democrats never split off (so why the Lib Dems exist, I don’t know), Clause Four was never dropped and we should be recovering nicely from a winter of discontent

If one thing’s bound to wind me up, it’s people of any political stripe trying to claim Jesus for their cause. I know plenty of leftists – it’s an occupational hazard of the eternal student – and I’m sick to the back teeth of the argument that goes, “We’re nice to people, the right wingers [...]

In the news today, Catholic adoption agency Catholic Care has won the right to continue operating, without complying with the Government’s 2007 Sexual Orientation Regulations. This means they’re allowed to continue their work without offering kids to gay couples on an equal basis, which would contravene their Catholic beliefs. CC is the last of the [...]

Dear Hugh Bayley, I write concerning the state of the Millennium Bridge river crossing. For the past three weeks it has been covered in snow and ice, and there has been no evidence of any gritting or other clearing activity. I am a research student at the university and have recently moved to South Bank, [...]

When you need a policeman but can’t find one, where’s he likely to be? Stopping cyclists to evangelise the wearing of helmets, or so it seems if you live in Edinburgh. Recently they stopped Andrew Burns, the chief of Labour on Edinburgh City Concil, who wasn’t too happy about it. (Edinburgh Evening news) Later, he [...]

A study on the 7/7 bombings has found 216 more deaths than predicted in the wake of the 7.7 bombings, as people switched from the tube to the ‘safe’ bicycle for transport. (Telegraph) Prof Peter Ayton, of City University, went on to say that “if you asked which killed more people ion the last 10 [...]