Dealing the debt
This year began with a disaster of unprecedented scale which prompted an incredible surge in public charity. In only a matter of days money for the Asian tsunami beat the total raised from 1984's Live Aid and it has continued to grow.
Features: Riches in the rags
'We were delighted that she applied to Oxford and delighted that she was accepted"- that's how an OUSU spokesperson welcomed the news that I would be studying at Oxford. Hang on; scratch that - they said this about Chelsea Clinton before she arrived here, not me. I wasn't on the front cover of Cherwell in my first week either....
Features: A political poet
In 1939 W.H. Auden wrote, "poetry makes nothing happen." The stereotypical image of the poet is that of the dandy and the intellectual, the self-admiring youth scribbling hot-headed odes comprehensible only to himself. How can someone dedicating themselves to something the vast majority of the people have little interest in ever be relevant or influential in the "real" world?...
Features: Money down the drain
We don't tend to think too hard about the contents of our glass or bottle when we're thirsty.
