Well, Amicus’ membership has just risen by one. I’m a degenerate Labour person, so it’s probably not a surprise, but if it shows, in some small way, a desire for better working practices, it’s probably worth the subs. While I’m sure that I’ll never have cause to use them, the advice and protection that unions [...]

When the ICDP was convened in 1977, just sixteen countries had abolished the death penalty. That figure now stands at eighty-six. It is a good thing that another country has found the answer to the question on the bumper sticker of a friend’s car – ‘Why do we kill people who kill people to show [...]

Or so says the Joseph Rowntree Foundation: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5084648.stm xD.

DeadMenLeft points out the difference in scale between fraud in the NHS and tax avoidance… http://deadmenleft.blogspot.com/2006/05/on-finding-real-scroungers.html xD.

I have finished my exams. After five years, I will be leaving LSE. I went, briefly, to Crush last Friday, my exams having finished on Thursday. Something was different. I’d been the previous week because a friend was in town, and I ended up in Crush with people I’d known in my second year. It [...]