I’ve now managed to track down a copy of the Birmingham University Evangelical Christian Union’s constitution and, quite frankly, I really can’t see what the Birmingham University guild of Student’s problem is. It is a perfectly legal consitution, to start with, and contains nothing that would be impermissible […]

Another piece on the Birmingham University Guild of Students’s war on freedom of association this morning, this time in the Birmingham Post. Can’t say that I’m overfond of the Christian Union’s histrionic comment about Satanists taking over or the obligatory references to ‘it’s political correctness gone mad’ (twice) […]

The furore over Birmingham University Guild of Students (BUGS) decision to effectively shut down the University’s Evangelical Christian Union rumbles on, with the Guild attracting all the wrong headlines. In fact, tonight’s local press is carrying another story (not online as yet so no link) claiming that the […]

As noted here, the New Statesman has another clutch of leaked Foreign Office documents and as per the last set of leaked documents, these have accidentally found their way through some OCR software in order to make them usable by bloggers, with the full text being published below […]

Over at Bloggerheads, Tim appears to be right on the money in his assessment of the outing of Simon Hughes. The 54-year-old bachelor MP appealed for understanding and sympathy – and vowed to stay in the race for the Lib-Dem crown. As Mr Hughes opened his heart during […]

The Indy are reporting that another batch of government e-mails have been leaked to the New Statesman, this time regarding which is alleged to be an attempt by Tony Blair to ‘bounce’ Charles Clarke into banning two Islamic ‘political parties’, one of which being Hizb-ut-Tahrir. Charles Clarke, the […]

Back in my own university days, pretty much the only attention that the Student Union paid to its various clubs and societies was to use them as a means of exercising their slightly perverse sense of humour during Fresher’s week. Fresher’s week, of course, meant the obligatory ‘Fresher’s […]

{via spiritof76} A little story I was told in class today. One of my classmates apparently had a phone call last night from a relative of hers. Oh good, we have the classic set up for an urban myth straight away – a classmate apparently had a phone […]

ACTION: Introduce a ‘community call for action’ In the police reform White Paper, Building Communities, Beating Crime, we committed to introducing a power that will give local communities a formal way to request and ensure that action is taken by the police, local authorities and others in response […]

I got up this morning in what was, for me, a remarkably good mood. Why? I couldn’t have told you to begin with. I just had the indefinable sense of anticipation about the day ahead, as if subconsciously I knew there was something about today that was worth […]