The government hopes that liberalised licensing laws will curb binge drinking but the police remain unsure, explains Sebastian Pattinson
Following changes to current licensing laws, bar and club owners will now be able to apply for licences to stay open throughout the day. Though the licences are not due to take effect until November of this year, they have already caused a great deal of controversy.
Jessica Levy discusses the new Education Secretary’s swift rise to the Cabinet and her plans to focus policy on rights and responsibilities
Ruth Kelly, the new Secretary of State for Education and Skills, has kick-started her job with a zero-tolerance drive against disruptive pupils. A mother of four, Ms. Kelly told educationists at the annual North of England conference, in Manchester, that parents had the right to a “top quality education” for their children.
Think of Colombia and many things spring to mind, unfortunately most of them are negative in nature. Decades of civil war, notorious drug-trafficking and the highest rate of kidnapping in the world are all frontline issues that need to be resolved.
Election after election in Zimbabwe has been tampered with, producing only the results that the government want to see. Many have lost their faith in democracy.
George Bush’s nomination of Alberto Gonzales as the new attorney general, a former White House legal counsel, has proved to be yet another controversial decision by the US President.
A state of emergency was declared in Nepal at the beginning of the month following the King’s dismissal of his Prime Minister, Sher Bahadur Deuba, and the rest of the Nepalese government.
In a cynical age it is sometimes easy to forget how democratic elections can quicken the pulse, warm the heart and even reach the depths of the soul. Two examples of this power have gripped the world either side of the New Year. No-one who witnessed on television the Orange Revolution in Kiev back in December could fail to admire the commitment of the tens of thousands of Ukrainian citizens who protested night after night in the bitter cold.
Lauren Carter considers renting out her student dive in Tang Hall Lane
The prospect of earning something for nothing is an attractive one for most students. Loans never stretch quite far enough to avoid hitting your overdraft limit and, unless you fancy posing as a make-shift guinea pig for Psychology Department experiments, making money doesn’t come easily.
Charlie McQuillen condemns YUSU for its events proposals
In a move designed to ‘promote diversity while reducing fluctuation in the market’, YUSU is once more growing too big for its boots by attempting to centralise control, branding and potentially funding of campus events.
Elliot Taylor asks why homophobic attacks aren’t treated as hate crimes by York police
Reform within Yorkshire Police’s classification system is needed. The rights of those involved with homophobic attacks are currently overlooked by police policy. Such crimes are treated as ‘diversity crimes’ which provide a distorted view of the victim.
Simon Davis on why York should pull out of a backward and bureaucratic National Union
Top-up fees are going to be introduced in England. As we speak the proposals are worming their way through Westminster, and preparations are being made to introduce the charges elsewhere in the UK. They are an historical inevitability.
I was shocked to read in your last edition the comment piece entitled, ‘Stop eating, do some bloody exercise, and stop moaning’, finding it’s use of utterly appalling language at best offensive, and at worst, vile and disgusting.
As a resident of one of the older parts of Langwith, I was concerned to read that the University seem to want to plough all their money into Alcuin, whilst leaving the rest of us with little more than a mottled pink common room and substandard, second-class accommodation.
I’d like to thank nouse for your excellent ‘Stop the Sweat’ campaign, which is strongly supported by Halifax JCRC.
We’ve currently stopped selling our merchandise in order to find a more ethical supplier, which we’re hoping to include in our new range next term.
Just seen the latest stuff in nouse about the sweatshop campaign and it is well good. Can you thank everyone involved for doing such a good job. Without the nouse campaign this kind of progress would have taken months if not years.
