Blog Entries by Chris Berkin from 03/2012

Izzard and Livingstone

| Posted 03.15.2012 | UK Universities & Education

As political double-acts go, the avid newt-keeper and the transvestite comedian is far from a conventional soapbox duo. Particularly when it's the newt enthusiast in question is the earnest, working-class Ken Livingstone, pairing up with the flamboyant and unapologetically cosmopolitan Eddie Izzard.

Brian Paddick and the Squandered Student Vote

| Posted 03.21.2012 | UK Universities & Education

The cynics among us will say students aren't interested in politics anymore. They condescend that the youth of today are more interested in Simon Cowell's latest retch-worthy attempt to kill off music as an art form once and for all, and in trying to breed with their cohabitants, than in a trivial matter like the London Mayoralty.