Archive for the ‘Opinion’ Category
OPINION: We are the jilted generation
Monday, November 15th, 2010
Ever felt like you’ve received a raw deal? Apparently an entire generation of us does. If you are under 30 years of age you are classed as a member of the ‘jilted generation’. We are the offspring of Thatcher’s baby boomers, and my, aren’t we in bother.
BY SARAH MULVENNA
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OPINION: Another week of television
Monday, November 15th, 2010
BBC1’s The Apprentice has quickly become one of the year’s major Television events, and once again “some of Britain’s brightest business prospects” are fighting to become Sir Alan Sugar’s latest recruit. Week six saw Sir Alan arrive unannounced at 7.30am to present the latest challenge, before spending five minutes scowling at his watch. The remaining contestants hurried to get dressed and ready, no doubt wondering why he hadn’t bothered to call beforehand.
BY MATTHEW MISKIMMIN
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OPINION: Are politics and honesty mutually exclusive?
Friday, November 5th, 2010
As every child in the United States will tell you, the first American president was a man of great moral integrity, incapable of telling a lie. As the story goes, George Washington once cut down his father’s cherry tree. Upon finding the tree reduced to firewood, Washington’s father asked him if he knew who had committed such an act. His response of “I cannot tell a lie” is well known in American folklore.
BY SEAN ASHFORD
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OPINION: The foundation of every state is the education of its youth
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2010
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. This self evident truth expressed by the Greek philosopher Diogenes Laertius seems to have been forgotten by those who govern twenty-first century Britain. The recently released Browne report proposes huge increases in student fees, signaling a massive step back for education.
BY DIMITVIOS ASVESTAS
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OPINION: Saturday night on the settee
Monday, November 1st, 2010
In deciding to write about television I envisaged myself as a Charlie Brooker-esque figure, ruthlessly cutting through the nonsense to be found on what that stern-faced critic has described as ‘the idiot box’. With this in mind, I scanned the schedules, searching for the most idiotic show I could find, ready like the great man himself to angrily compare that show to as many unpleasant nouns as possible. When I recently read that Brooker had decided to bring his enormously popular Guardian column ‘Screen Burn’ to an end, I assumed the decision had been taken on hearing that I had stumbled upon his winning formula.
BY MATTHEW MISKIMMIN
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OPINION: Conservatives by name or by nature?
Saturday, October 30th, 2010
Throughout its history the Conservative Party has taken on the role of the anti-party of British politics. An anti-ideology party based firmly on maintaining the established order, conservatism representing a characteristic inherent in human nature, and whether one supports them or not their electoral success cannot be disputed. However, with the recent spending review and the new direction which leader David Cameron has taken the party, has the Conservative Party become the opposite of what its name suggests and instead become a reformist party?
BY SEAN ASHFORD
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OPINION: Fashionable scepticism of climate change
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
In an age when phenomena such as global warming and climate change are taken as scientific orthodoxy, it is almost fashionable to be considered a sceptic. Every age has produced rebels; men and women who ‘oppose the system’ and many of them were indeed scientists; but no age has tolerated them to such an extent as the twenty-first century.
BY BASIL BABU
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