Arguing passionately in favour of the government’s higher education policy in a room full of students was never going to be popular, but I felt myself and Mark Overton put up a good fight opposing the Debating Society’s topical motion ‘This House would scrap top-up fees’.
We were debating against the new President of my Students’ [...]
Entries from September 2006
September 29, 2006
Fighting the good fight
September 16, 2006
‘A difficult day’
Being a history student, I have a soft spot for the Beeb’s ‘On This Day’ feature. By chance, tonight I discovered that we left the ERM exactly 14 years ago.
Who was assisting Norman Lamont on his ‘difficult day’? This clever chap, of course. And his smirking sidekick has the nerve to bemoan Gordon’s economic record.
September 13, 2006
The progressive path
A small delegation from ELS were lucky enough to attend the Progress Conference in London on Saturday.
It was the first time any of us had been to one of the Progress events before and I think I speak for everyone when I say we came away very impressed indeed. Obviously, Tony was the star attraction [...]
