I can't begin to describe how excited I am about the upcoming elections: after a hundred years, it looks like liberalism might actually be back as a political force in Britain; after thirty years of right-wing government it looks as if the left could rise again. Perhaps most importantly, if the Liberal Democrats retain the support they have ( Read more... )

Life has been as wonderful as Oxford always is of late ( Read more... )

This was an incredibly eye-opening book on US foreign policy. It should be compulsory reading for every US citizen and everyone who cares about the state of the world ( Read more... )

The BBC needed to fill the time between Obama winning and his speech, so they decided to get this author, Gore Vidal, to talk to them a bit. I think they probably wished they hadn't pretty soon. I found it hilarious and really hope it goes viral:

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So many quotes...

As a beam of light fell on my face, I woke up this morning to a deep elation that Obama had won the elections, and feel back to sleep, content ( Read more... )

I've always vaguely admired the Scandinavian countries as perfect socio-economic role models, if not utopias, without really understanding much about them beyond the fact that they were rich, peaceful and liberal-socialist. So I decided to read up on them (on Wikipedia) and now admire them even more. Empirically, it can be seen that capitalism ( Read more... )

Bureaucracy. And forms. And automated phone lines.

I need to change the account my student account goes into. I went on the website, which told me to give them a call, which told me to go to a different part of the website, which told me to call the same number. Gah. Why can't I talk to an actual person? I tried a different number, which helpfully ( Read more... )

I was going to post an angry political blog, but look! My calender looks like an elephant! Haha ( Read more... )

I went through two town centres hunting for a job today. Considering Luton had a population of 230 000 people, that is a very large town centre ( Read more... )

I'll keep it brief as I know it's hard to keep you guys reading with such a title ( Read more... )