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As the tenancy in Cowley winds itself up with astonishing and nigh on purgatorial slowness something really quite interesting has taken place at the end of Randolph Street. A group of people have taken over the disused fishing tackle factory and transformed it into a social centre/free university called ‘Pleb’s College’, which has all-in-all been [...]

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And lo’ the sorry saga of AV reform comes to a wretched, miserable close with an outright defeat for the Yes campaign and what you might call a resounding victory for the Status Quo. Cast deeper into the dark depths of utter political despair I’m really at quite a loss of what to do. Perhaps [...]

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My Manifesto of Simplicity

I disagree with many And I may agree with some But of the things I can’t abide Racism is one

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We’re living through times of change, that much is clear, even to those who might choose to ignore the events of the past couple of days. I’m not usually someone who likes to highlight racial issues but I feel that set against the background of 20th century US history the fact that Barack Obama was [...]

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I was thinking of using the title of this post as the jumping off point for a script for a pornographic film that I would put together using much of the college drama department, it would have an ironic ring to it seeing as I’d be banged up behind bars (that really is an unpleasant [...]

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In 2008 the Conservatives who run HCC increased council tax to 4.5% and have promised to cut council tax to 3% in the year of the election (whenever that may be). The 4.5% increase was unnecessary and led to a budget surplus of £120 million, which is now being stashed away by the Council possibly in [...]

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I’ll apologise outright for the lateness of this post, I have unfortunately been a trifle wrapped up in keeping the band ticking over and the all important business of sleeping until one in the afternoon, if ever I needed to simply admit that laziness and procrastination have been getting the better of me then now [...]

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David Davis’ resignation of his parliamentary seat in protest of the government’s success in the first stage of getting the 42 day holding limit passed is as far as I can see a display of principle in a world of smoke, mirrors and timidity. Davis is not a man I agree with on many points of view but [...]

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I wanted to write a post about the protests that have taken place around the world as the olympic torch has been carried from nation to nation in a badly judged public relations exercise by the Chinese Administration. When I got plane to return to the UK I saw the scenes that greeted the Olympic [...]

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My latest communication with the Government wasn’t actually with the Government it was with a Member of Parliament who doesn’t actually form part of the Government; one Michael Mates the MP for East Hampshire. Actually if I wanted to be pedantic I would say that my last communication with the Government was at 1.35 post [...]

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