For fox sake
Winter in the north-east of Scotland can get very cold indeed. The sea breeze coupled with a near Arctic frost often makes you wish that you had a warm and toasty layer of fur to keep you that little bit warmer.
Features: Newsfight: Fees vs Taxes
There is no question that British universities need more money than they are currently getting. The government proposals, however, aim to cover this funding gap by charging students. Unsurprisingly, most students don't just have a few grand to spare (or to spend on champagne), so the government lends them the money to foot the Higher Education bill. The problem is that according to repeated studies on the cost of being a student, neither the current system nor the government's proposals provide enough financial support for students to take on this cost. Even means testing does not work, as it assumes that all parents give their children enough money to fund their needs - and we all know that is a foolish assumption to make. The current and proposed means tested loan system therefore fails some of the most vulnerable students....
Features: Playing Blaine's Game
Screw journalistic objectivity - I admit, I thought David Blaine was going to be a prick. Having seen him in his box over the summer, I thought that sitting on your arse for a month wasn't the hardest job in the world, and I was pretty sure he'd find some way to sneak a few Big Macs in there.
Features: Let Me Educate You
Mike Baker sounds like the teacher you always wanted. He prefers sports to study, hated maths and science, wants to play for Ipswich Town Football Club, and his idol is Chris Barber (a jazz trombonist). Rather than being in education though, Mike reports on it. He is the BBC's Education Correspondent.
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Features: The Pedants' Revolt
It's time for me to confess to something. It's a little bit embarrassing. People might not look at me in the same way again. You see I have a sort of allergy. I'm hyper-sensitive to grammar and punctuation. You could say I suffer from Irritable Vowel Syndrome. (It's also a disease that makes you use really bad puns.) Misuse of apostrophes actually brings me out in a rash. It's actually a lot like the bubonic plague - lots of randomly scattered spots. I've been hiding this affliction for years, feigning indifference to every instance of their/they're confusion, but now I'm speaking out. ...
Features: Liquid Hope
Oil. Nasty stuff. Kills things, starts wars, feeds greed, icky gooey dirty stuff. Oil makes the world go round. It is also, perversely, helping to pave the way to peace in Sudan.
Features: Kyliefication
It's time for some chilling news kids: the first Kylies and Jasons are, I am told, filtering through to secondary schools across the land.
Features: Examining the XX Factor
Women have been admitted to Oxford for more than a century now, so why is there still so much discrimination against them?
Features: Post-War Prisoner
Urslaan Khan, a guy I often walked to school with in Teesside, made national headlines recently, arrested in Iraq on suspicion of trying to join a group fighting coalition troops. An inquisitive person with a philosophical outlook, he finally returned safely to the UK for the vacation, able to give his side of the story outside the walls of an Iraqi cell at the prisoner of war camp where he had been held for seven weeks. ...
Features: Bushing the Limits
In an article for 'Tribune' in 1946, George Orwell wrote "to see what is in front of your nose requires a constant struggle". He was referring to the way that many people are able to simultaneously hold two totally contradictory ideas in their heads, which fundamentally cancel each other out, and still make what they believe to be a logical opinion from a mixture of the two. The example that he gave was that of the newly formed United Nations. If it were to be successful it had to override big states as well as small ones. It must also have the authority to inspect and limit armaments and wield the threat of an armed force more powerful than any other. ...
