The City Sleeps Alone Tonight

Is it just me or has it genuinely become more difficult to meet people? I’m figuring that it always has been difficult to meet people, I mean in prehistoric times it must have been absolute hell for several reasons, namely that there were about fifteen people on the planet and the chances of bumping into [...]

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Insite

Matthew Good published this link on his website and for the sake of access and exposure I’ll publish it here too, since this is such a central hub of activity… http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/2008-2009/staying_alive/video.html I don’t live in Vancouver, I live in Oxford but the amount of homelessness in this city is quite frankly shocking and having spoken [...]

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Class, my friend, is dead

I had my relatively laid back feelings toward class issues kicked back into touch again by the ongoing saga that is a fellow student in one of my lessons who was privileged enough to attend a private boarding school before somehow ending up in the same boat as the rest of us poor common people [...]

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Polarisation, a time honoured tale.

According to a recent report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, an organisation committed to tackling social issues in a constructive manner, the wealth gap between rich and poor is at it’s highest level in 40 years. Amongst the findings are the widespread acceptance of the fact that some occupations should be paid at a higher [...]

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Blame Facebook

The recent spate of suicides in the UK has claimed the lives of 13 young people, mostly in their teens. The culprit is of course the culture of online social networking without which these people would be happy and of course alive. ? I’m not exactly a fan of social networking sites, I consider them to be a [...]

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Christmas, a time for peace, fellowship and shitting all over the poor

Proving the equlibrium in nature, you can’t keep a good person down and equally so you can’t keep a bad person from trying to force their class based invective down the throats of others. Previously on this blog I posted an article about the attempt to ban soup runs in central Westminster, it must have [...]

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Theres a thought huh?

I read in the Independent that the traditional soup run may be banned in some London boroughs due to the fact that when homeless people queue up to get a serving of hot food it constitutes a ‘public order issue’. Now for a start just where the hell do these people get off? if the ban is [...]

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I love age limits, except when it’s 14-18 night and I can’t get in

An interesting part of the Queen’s pre-speech speech(?) was a proposed bill to keep youngsters in education or training up until the age of 18 by making further education compulsory. It’s an interesting one in as much as College has become just about compulsory for anybody who does half well at their GCSE’s, the entry [...]

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An actual post about current affairs

The media has a habit of latching onto a story and then only fixating itself upon stories which support its current crusade but nontheless for a story to be reported it generally has to have happened. So we hear the story of the 11 year old Rhys who was shot in the back of the [...]

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Asking what exactly does any of this mean?

There are of course those times when you ask yourself ‘what exactly is that I want’, thats almost the essential question when you disagree with just about every ruling idealogy that there is, ‘so you hate everything about the present system, what doyou want buddy? The answer usually lies within the arguments you put against [...]

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