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Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath’s missing MP
It has been said that it’s very difficult to carry on as an MP after you have been Prime Minister. John Major famously left to ‘watch the cricket’ in 1997. Tony Blair left to become a Middle East Envoy...
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HUU Elections 2011 – It begins again
This post is the first in a series that I will be doing about this year’s student union elections for Hull University Union. In this one, I will be explaining some of the details of the election, as...
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HUU Elections 2011 – The candidates (Part 1)
My previous post can be found here. Found on hullstudent.com This year, I have noticed that there are fewer candidates for the executive positions. For example, in the past there has been roughly four...
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HUU Elections 2011 – The candidates (Part 2)
My previous posts in this series can be found here and here. In the previous post, I looked at the sabbatical and part-time officer positions for this year’s elections. This post covers all the other...
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HUU Elections 2011 – Campaigning and Polling
Previous posts – ‘It begins again‘, ‘The candidates (Part 1)‘, ‘The candidates (Part 2)‘ So far, I have explained some of the finer points of the HUU election process, as well as taking a look at...
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HUU Elections 2011 – The Results (Part 1)
Previous posts – ‘It begins again‘, ‘The candidates (Part 1)‘, ‘The candidates (Part 2)‘, ‘Campaigning and Polling‘ I had orginally intended to make this a five post series about the elections at HUU...
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HUU Elections 2011 – The Results (Part 2)
I realise that the results for the elections at Hull University Union were announced a while ago, but I wasn’t able to do the second of my two results posts until now because I was moving house....
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The AV referendum – a response to David Cameron
On the Blue Blog today, David Cameron issued one last call to voters as part of the campaign against the Alternative Vote. He listed five key points in his argument and even invoked Winston Churchill...
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Egypt in May
The Arab Spring is a hugely important (and ongoing) event in global politics. No-one can deny the effect that it has had. Leaders in multiple nations have been ousted and events in the likes of Syria...
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Democracy in Palestine
It would be foolish to try and give a complete history of the Israel/Palestine conflict in a single blog post. It is one of the longest running disputes out there. Various world leaders have attempted...
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