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Clarke to cut compensation for criminals
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has recently revealed plans to cut spending in compensation which involves stopping people with unspent criminal convictions seeking compensation if they later become victims of crime themselves.
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Boris Island
If you’ve been on holiday in the past year or so, I’m guessing you will have seen that Gatwick, Heathrow and the rest have become substantially crowded and indeed the Government’s decision that something has to be done is aggreable. Enter the ludicrous solution of ‘Boris Island’ provides a new ‘hub’ that exists outside of London and thereby would seek to revive the supposedly diminishing economy of the South East. read more
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The Contest Against Terrorism
Just when it would seem that some people couldn’t possibly get any more misinformed about the world’s second largest religion, the Home Office has achieved what would seem an almost impossible feat, by appearing even more misguided. As part of their review for the government’s counter-terrorism strategy, CONTEST, officials are encouraging universities to identify to ‘Prevent’ police those who are vulnerable towards the influence of radicalism. Apparently, for the Home Office this roughly translates into: depressed and isolated Muslim students.
read moreMicahel Gove's Lesson In Democracy
On January 4, 2012, Michael Gove gave a speech in defense of his plans to force up to 200 schools he considers ‘failing’ to become academies. In this speech, Gove addressed all that were against his plans as “ideologues who are happy with failure” and assured the audience that the academies programme is “an evidence-based, practical solution” to schools labelled ‘failing’ by Ofsted.
read moreHigh-speed rail: an unnecessary investment?
Last week the Transport Secretary, Justine Greening, approved the £32.7 billion investment in a high-speed rail network between London and Birmingham. The ‘HS2’ scheme proposes to transform Birmingham’s economy by increasing the number of commuters visiting Britain’s second largest city, hopefully leading to what Greening describes as a “railway revolution”.
read moreVice-Chancellors' Pay Rise
There are two very simple pieces of information which will make a lot of people very unhappy. Number one, many top United Kingdom universities have raised annual tuition fees to £9,000 a year. Number two, many university Vice-Chancellors have taken an annual pay rise of, on average, £9,700. Coincidence? Many of us would be inclined to think no. Universities have claimed that they are desperately underfunded and were forced to heighten tuition fees. By ‘underfunded,’ then, are we assume that they meant their Vice-Chancellors Christmas bonus wasn’t big enough? read more
