The political landscape has been shaken up as Theresa May u-turned on yet another promise. The conservatives are very far ahead in the polls now and Mrs May announced that she chaired a meeting of the cabinet where they agreed the government should hold a general election on the 8th June. In the recent local…
It seems a significant proportion of the British public believe we should have a referendum to stay in the European Union. I will try to answer these the best I can to the extent of my knowledge currently it’s a work in progress as always. What distresses me is the lack of any intelligent discourse…
My last post here was back in April. Aren’t I terrible? Since then I took an Economics exam and came out the other side. Against expectations passed the module (feel like I could have handled the exam better), went to Brussels (again) and now am deeply engaged in my Politics module. I’m fast approaching exam…
As I said in my previous post, I think I’d be more then a little busy this year this has turned out to be true. I’ve bought two economics books as I really want too boost my grades in Economics. Andrew Gillispies book seems to be more lighter and suitable to introduce newbies into Economics.…
I’m on the final book of my Philosophy module. Book 6: Political Philosophy. Thank goodness. I’ve kind of liked and disliked this module. Like marmite! 🙂 Sometimes I’ve enjoyed the philosophical debates and thinking that I’ve done, and at other times just loathed it. Political Philosophy seems interesting so far. I’ve covered political obligation and…
This post has been a long time coming. I’ve wrote so much about how the education system is a failure before in my blog I’m sure. Something I’ll have to search through I think! This time I wanna go into depth. Real change is needed in our education system. I’m not just talking about university…
Seems my blog is just all about death. I’ve not intended it that way! Not good, but that’s all that’s been happening out there. Muammar Gaddafi was reported captured and later killed earlier on today. I don’t like people getting killed regardless of what they have done, so I wanted to see him captured and…