• Cameron supports the TTIP. Here’s why we should be angry.

    David Cameron told delegates at the G20 conference last week that he was willing to fire ‘rocket boosters’ under the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, or TTIP. By now familiar to many, the TTIP is an EU-US Free Trade Agreement that aims to establish increased trade between the European...
  • We need cheaper gym memberships, not new Sports Centres

    The University of Nottingham is pumping millions of pounds into new sporting facilities to encourage people to get more involved in sport. However, who will really be left to pick up the costs of this investment? These new facilities will include a sports village, an expanded fitness suite, an...
  • A Fresh Pair of Eyes: Back to the Dark Ages

    Sometimes we flick through headlines without giving them a second thought; we readily accept the destruction and devastation in the world without thinking about the causes and consequences. Beth Thayne takes a step back and looks at what is happening around us from a different perspective. Be ready to...
  • Are ‘free schools’ too free?

    The 70s was a strange era; following an age of flowers and freedom and preceding a decade of Tories and synthesisers. It was a time of transition and change, experimentation and innovation. In retrospect, it seems that the Government’s focus was taking hippies off their highs and the impoverished...
  • A Fresh Pair of Eyes: The UK Hokey Cokey

    Sometimes we flick through headlines without giving them a second thought; we readily accept the destruction and devastation in the world without thinking about the causes and consequences. Beth Thayne takes a step back and looks at what is happening around us from a different perspective. Be ready to...