Time to Take a Stand: Oppose Uncapped Student Fees
How many Liberal Democrats does it take to screw in a light-bulb? They don’t – they’re too busy screwing their voters. In universities across the country, the Liberal Democrat’s opposition to fees was symbolic of their claim to stand up for younger voters. And now, after a painfully predictable U-turn, Vince Cable looks like he’s [...]
Review of Higher Education & Student Finance in England
Half a century ago just 6% of young people went to university, paid for through general taxation. The other 94% subsidised those 6%, but that was OK because the people benefiting where almost universally well-off already. Nowadays almost 50% of young people go to university, and it’s a scandal that they expect society as a [...]
Pale Blue Dot
To mark today’s protest in London here’s the late Carl Sagan reminding us how insignificant are our differences, how pointless is war and how important it is that we protect this planet, the only one we have. This is science at its most profound, important in a way which can never be measured by impact [...]
Unplug & Reconnect
Communities across Scotland are joining together together to Unplug and Reconnect this Sunday (10 October) as part of the Global 350 Movement. 350 is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide—measured in “Parts Per Million” in our atmosphere. 350 PPM—it’s the number humanity needs to get back to [...]
Time for a Halt to Big Biomass
The people of Leith have been fighting proposals for a Biomass plant. This is an exercise in money-making masquerading as carbon-cutting. It is clear that the plant will take years to repay the carbon costs embedded in its construction, and the transport of materials to feed the plant. We are republishing this letter in support [...]
On the Coalition’s Plans for Welfare Reform
We don’t know all the details of IDS’s plans on welfare reform yet, but Fraser Nelson in The Spectator has a few details. It looks likely the plans will roll out gradually, perhaps over two parliaments, to reduce up front costs and grandfather the old system. It’s reported that no-one should be worse off from [...]
When the lobbyists take over…
By Nishma Doshi Imagine a world where everything we own is trademarked. Where even the most simple of celebrations is constructed around a roundabout of corporate logos and business-fuelled ideology. Where 1% of the world’s population owns 40% of the world’s resources. Where water is privatised and inaccessible for the majority. Where your food prices [...]
That 10:10 Film – Brave, Bold, Bad.
So, 1010 have, it seems, attempted to gain publicity by releasing a film which was clearly going to be controverial, waiting for people to upload it onto youtube, then removing it and apologising. I’m going to do exactly what they want, and post the film. It’s here: This well worn tactic for ensuring things ‘go [...]
The Poor had no Lawyers
Our guest writer is land reform activist Andy Wightman, author of ‘Who Owns Scotland’, and now ‘The Poor Had no Lawyers’. A few years ago I bought some land. Not a lot, just a little bit. It cost me £12.95 and is located at Area F-4, Quadrant Charlie on the lighted side of the moon. [...]
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