Dust settling on the student rampage

I’m afraid to say that the “small minority” of violent elements in the student protests and their “apologists and supporters have managed to remove what sympathy I had for their cause. I largely blame the students representatives and organisers who seem to have had no other campaign (at least in London) than walking on Parliament, and don’t seem to have had any plan on how to deal with and separate themselves from those amongst them that were intent on violence. Perhaps they might have had more luck if apart from marching they’d got friends and family to write to their … Continue reading

Student rage

So predictably the government has voted to raise the upper limit of fees that universities can be changed and equally predictably another student demo has descended into violence. Whilst as mentioned before I did benefit from a free University education but that was when a much smaller number of students went to University but as Dizzy observes the way the new loans are structured they only have to be paid back if they start making above a decent wage. Which seems fairer than expecting everyone to contribute to a university education for everyone who’s even just a tiny bit above … Continue reading

wikileaks round up

I’m afraid another post about wikileaks, even though really not much has been happening except for script kiddies running badly written code to stick it to the man (If you were a nasty person that’s just the sort of program to shove a back door into). The script kiddies at the behest of anonymous* have been targeting anyone anonymous has decided is anti-wikileaks, which is probably the best bet if you’re twelve. Adults might consider writing and threatening the companies to stop using their services (oddly past campaigns have suggested that commercial ventures care quite a bit about publicity and … Continue reading