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FEATURES: No to AV
Saturday, March 26th, 2011
On 5 May we will be asked whether we wish to change the system of voting MPs to Westminster. The question is whether we stick with first past the post the system we have used for centuries or adopt the alternative vote (AV) which is more proportionate. Proponents of this change maintain that it is a no-brainer to adopt a more proportionate and thus fairer system of voting. This is not strictly true as it can be argued that proportionate means of voting promote incompetence and stagnation.
BY ALEXANDER REDPATH
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FEATURES: TFI Friday?
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
It appears everyone in the world is talking about Rebecca Black’s song ‘Friday’. It’s received thirty million hits so far on YouTube, has reached number twenty-five in the iTunes chart and everyone’s united in derision of any merits it could possess. Despite this, Rolling Stone Magazine is praising it saying, “You immediately notice everything that it does “wrong,” but it actually gets a lot of things about pop music right, if just by accident.” It’s a fantastic parody of pop music today.
BY BEN FINCH
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FEATURES: Belfast to host 2011 MTV Europe awards
Saturday, March 5th, 2011
The Odyssey Arena will host this year’s MTV Europe Music awards. This is the first time the awards have been held in Northern Ireland and will see pop, rock and hip hop royalty grace the stage to perform, present and pick up awards.
BY CLAIRE WILLIAMSON
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FEATURES: I’d like to thank all the little people…
Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
It’s that time of year again when inhabitants of Hollywood feast on diets comprising solely of green food, the sofa is substituted for the sun-bed, colonic irrigation becomes as frequent as yoga and dozens of identical statuettes are frantically polished gold. For the 83rd year, Hollywood’s finest gather to honour the most talented, unique and deserving of the acting calibre. This year, a stammering king, a technology phenomenon and a disturbed ballerina are characters in the biggest drama of all: the Oscars.
BY CATRIONA BURNS
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FEATURES: Virtually democratic
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Facebook is the only place you can talk to a wall and not be considered strange. In fact if you’re not on Facebook you’re frequently thought of as not a real human being and God forbid your status does not obtain at least 3 ‘likes’. Twitter, Myspace, Facebook and previously Bebo (RIP) have replaced phone calls and on many occasions actual human contact as human beings move further from the physical world into the virtual. We communicate more, we advertise and we have more opportunities for global fundraising.
BY SARAH LAVERTY
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FEATURES: Under the covers – why we love book lovers
Monday, February 14th, 2011
Recovering cynic though I may be, let me begin by saying that I’m as big-a sucker for a book romance as the next girl. A case in point – I was at a tech rehearsal for a play I was in a few years back, and to while away the time while the long-beard-and-ponytail brigade faffed about with electrical things, I thought I’d finish off North and South, which happened to be on my reading list that week. It was the Good Bit. The bit where the repressed couple-in-waiting finally Get It On (or rather get as close to Getting It On as is possible in a Victorian novel);
…her very heart-pulse was arrested by the tone in which Mr. Thornton spoke. His voice was hoarse, and trembling with tender passion, as he said:
‘Margaret!’
BY ZOSIA KUCZYNSKA
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REVIEW: Westlife – Gravity
Wednesday, December 15th, 2010
After a year-long break, Ireland’s most successful boy band, Westlife, have returned to the limelight with their eleventh album, Gravity. Previous to its release the band claimed this is the album “they have always wanted to make”, yet listening to the tracks, it is not quite clear why, because although the sound is perhaps more mature, it is not wholly distinguishable from their previous ten releases.
BY CATRIONA BURNS
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