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Experiment: Private school and Political Views

Between longer and more abstract blog posts, this evening I decided to conduct a little experiment. I decided to look at the Political Views of the people I went to High School with.
My secondary school was independent. It was hardly Eton, but it still qualifies as private. My method was to go through my Facebook [...]

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The Next Step: Moving on from Question Time

I said the Internets would be ablaze with analysis and accusations over Nick Griffin’s appearance on Question Time. It didn’t take Nostradamus to know that prediction would come true.
Hopefully this post will be the last I need to say on the matter, as I’ll just add this little contribution to the debate: A while ago [...]

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Statement on Nick Griffin on Question Time

The episode of Question Time which featured the leader of the BNP, Nick Griffin, has just aired.
Once again, Twitter came into full force. According to @tweetminster there were up to 53.5K tweets with 12.49 tweets per second at close of #bbcqt.
Analysis of the debate will no doubt dominate the headlines and the blogosphere tomorrow and for [...]

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Launch of the CANP

Bloggers launch the “Coalition Against No Platform“

Today I am pleased to publish a new page, the Coalition Against No Platform, a directory of bloggers and articles from all political parties.
We believe that the No Platform policy, where speakers refuse to participate in debates at which the BNP or other undesirables are present is foolish at best [...]

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Proposal #25: Remove private schools’ charitable status

Education has always been a key issue for Labour because it is the foundation of social mobility, yet there still exists a huge division between state and private schools, one of the ways to break through this dividing line is to remove the compulsory charitable status from private schools.
Though education, particularly when dealing with state/private [...]

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