Both Labour and Tories are backing plans to more than double student tuition fees to £7000 within four years. Labour shamelessly abandoned its 2001 election manifesto promise that ‘it will not introduce top-up fees and has legislated against them’ – then introduced them in 2004.
The Dearing Report, commissioned in 1996 under Tory [...]
Tag Archives: Tony Blair
Pay attention, class. This is an important revision course on UK student tuition fees
July 26, 2009 – 11:21 pm
It's not over until the fat man sings – and he's just cleared his throat
June 7, 2009 – 6:05 pm
Last Sunday BBC political commentator Andrew Marr asked Gordon Brown whether he would consider stepping down as PM if it were the majority view of the Labour Party that it would be in its interests for him to do so. Characteristically, Brown replied “No.” He had a job to do, cleaning up Parliament and saving [...]
Another plot foiled on fantasy island
April 22, 2009 – 9:45 am
Thus followers will not be surprised to hear of the release without charge of all the dastardly terrorists who were plotting to blow up Manchester’s Arndale Centre and other key installations over Easter. We predicted the outcome on April 10. Two of the Pakistani students were cleared more or less immediately and it was announced [...]
UK anti-terror chief resigns after literally losing the plot – four months too late
April 10, 2009 – 1:07 pm
Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick, Metropolitan Police anti-terror ’supremo’ ‘promptly’ resigned yesterday after he was photographed outside 10 Downing St clutching a top secret document listing UK Al Qaeda suspects atop a sheaf of papers. “YOU CAN’T QUIT QUICKER THAN A THICK QUICK QUITTER” screamed the Sun, referencing the cheery advertising slogan of KwikFit, a tyres [...]
Most Americans rate Bush as one of the worst five Presidents
January 14, 2009 – 8:58 pm
Rasmussen Reports, 13 January 2009
President George W. Bush in a final press conference on Monday 12 January, 2009 acknowledged he made some mistakes in the White House, but most Americans – at least for now – are a lot more critical than that. Fifty-seven percent (57%) of Americans say Bush is one of the five [...]
Update: Israeli reservists move in for the endgame as Gaza leaves the front pages
January 12, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Tony Blair has come back from yet another much-needed holiday and New Year at his multi-million pound country seat, formerly owned by that other consummate actor, Sir John Geilgud, to go through the motions with beacon of democracy, President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt, earning his corn with insights such as: ”I am hopeful we can put [...]
European Court rules UK DNA database an abuse of Human Rights
December 5, 2008 – 11:51 am
By John J Kelly
On December 4 2008 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the practice of holding DNA samples of more than 1 million UK citizens, some as young as 10 years old, who have no criminal record but who have been investigated in the course of police enquiries, is contrary to Article 8. Britain [...]
Stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon to the US
November 25, 2008 – 11:56 pm
Thus is not normally a campaigning website, but please sign this petition on behalf of Gary McKinnon. The UK government and House of Lords have done nothing to protect a UK citizen’s rights. If it weren’t deadly serious, it would be risible, and is a horrible reminder of the nightmare slide into totalitarianism of the [...]