Tag Archives: Students
New transmitters, old stupidities.
Having read several bits of overexcited rubbish about the way Twitter and Facebook supposedly render obsolete everything that comes before them, I was reminded of a Bertolt Brecht (pictured left) poem which I have dug out. New Ages A new … Continue reading
Today’s student activists, tomorrow’s careerists?
As 2010 is put to rest it will be remembered, among other things, as a year of student activism. Much is made in the media of the pre-university activists, people under the age of 18. There is nothing new about … Continue reading
Students are Revolting!
The student occupations up and down the country, and demonstrations in London today, fill my heart with glee. This government of millionaire Hooray-Henries and Lib-Dem toadies has politicised a generation in a matter of months. Millions of left-wing leaflets, written … Continue reading
Left slides on antisemitism
The first political event I can recall attending was a National Union of Students anti-racism conference in either 1985 or 1986, at North London Polytechnic on the Holloway Road. I was president of my further education student union at the … Continue reading