by nabidana | Nov 4, 2010 | Ireland
The Union of Students in Ireland yesterday held an impressive protest against proposed cuts to student welfare and increases in fees to attend universities and colleges in Ireland. The Union brought out some 25,000 students and their supporters onto the streets of...
by nabidana | Oct 24, 2010 | politics
One of the most important things students learn when studying the media is that, often, the decision of an editor or proprietor to, or not to, publish or broadcast a particular story places immense power in the hands of that person. Often the mainstream media enjoys...
by nabidana | Oct 19, 2010 | politics
There is nothing either particularly logical or elegant about the embodiment of the basic economic problem in the Guns versus Butter conundrum, but there’s probably a well established way to pay someone through taxpayer cash to paint a picture of it or commit...
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by nabidana | Oct 5, 2010 | politics
All political parties do strange stuff at Party Conference season, but it’s important that we keep an eye on the soundness or otherwise of our own. Here’s a miniature guide, which we shall start using tomorrow.
by nabidana | Oct 3, 2010 | politics
Basil McCrea made a lot of enemies in his early Assembly career, mostly by being reasonable, collegiate and friendly; this is rarely the way anyone seeking to be elected UUP leader would like to be introduced to the casual onlooker, but so it was that he fought and...
