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I’m finding it rather difficult to understand the football leadership crisis that’s sweeping the globe.
On the streets of Great Britain, a conspiracy is taking place. It is the conspiracy of selfishness.
Like members of rival middle-aged boy bands, all four major party leaders this week climbed aboard their tour buses and started to make their way around the country. And unlike boy bands, they targeted marginal constituencies and started talking policy with the local electoral punters.
The World Association of Zoos and Aquariums (WAZA) was slammed by the national press on Tuesday for overlooking some pretty awful instances of animal cruelty.
On Monday, it was revealed that the Labour former home secretary Jack Straw and Conservative MP Sir Malcolm Rifkind had been caught by a journalists’ sting operation, which showed them offering their services and connections to a fake Chinese company.
On this day in 1975, the National Union of Mineworkers finished negotiations with their industry paymasters and accepted a pay rise of 35% for miners in the UK. It was the result of months of dispute between the boards, and part of the escalation of union power which would lead to the famed ‘Winter of Discontent’ of 1988-89.
It’s over. After months of furious personal statement writing, pestering for references and agonising over campuses and courses and cooking, it’s over. The UCAS (that’s University and College Admission Service) deadline has passed.
When you think of the British ‘cuppa’, you’re probably thinking of tea. But research shows that in recent years we’ve drifted from our staple hot drink, and instead are drinking a ‘latte’ more coffee.
If you were to make a list of the top discussion topics of my friends, politics might not be on it. Young people in the UK have a reputation – probably deserved – for not caring about what happens in the Westminster bubble. 18-24 aged turnout at the 2010 election was just 44% - the lowest of any age bracket.
It’s that time of year again. We’re often told that in an age of presents, parties and pigs-in-blankets, it can be all too easy to forget the ‘real’ message of Christmas. The Christmas which is founded on the story of the nativity – on the birth of humanity’s saviour on Earth – is a time when we preach tolerance and peace. It’s not about the insular family occasion which dominates the Western view of the 25th December.
