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Student Loans - Celebrations in order

Eleven years after finishing my degree, I have finally finished paying off my student loans 1994-1997.
All I can say is thank god I went to university before Labour introduced the top-up-fees otherwise I would be still paying the little blighters off.




Clegg has UKIP and the Tories on the run

In picking a fight over the Lisbon Treaty and by not backing the call for a referendum on the UK’s membership of the EU, the Tories and UKIP are quite obviously running scared.
The Tory position speaks volumes on their position on the European issue - muddled and frankly opportunist.
There were no referendums on the […]




Media need to get a sense of proportion

 
Question: You are a news editor.
1. Four days ago the Archbishop of Canterbury makes an academic speech to a room full of lawyers about the theoretical incorporation of some aspects of financial and marital Sharia law into English law.
2. Hundreds of category A prisoners (including Ian Huntley) could have their convictions quashed and be freed […]




“Get Out of Jail Free” cards could have been issued by police

Hundreds of terrorists, murderers and other dangerous and violent prisoners across the country could have their convictions quashed if claims of police bugging of privileged legal meetings prove to be true.
Senior police officers are alleged to have routinely ordered the bugging of category A prisoner’s meetings with lawyers and other visitors in prisons across the […]