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Lee Griffin About Lee: Former students' union president and intermitent blogger since the turn of the century, who's aim is to promote objective thinking and a break from partisan politics when discussing the issues of the day. Contact him.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, a politician and a tabloid journalist walk in to the bar...

Fri 15th Feb 2008

Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury
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OK, well there's no punchline, the story is an unbelievable enough tale of knee-jerk reactionism as it is. As it stands, I'm backing the bishop on this one. I don't totally agree with what The Archbishop of Canterbury (ABC) said, but I do think that to claim he needs to resign, or that he was out of order for making such comments are ridiculous on two counts. The first is that this is thankfully a free country where a man can make a learned case for a new idea in intellectual company and shouldn't be criticised for doing so. The second is that the outrage largely seems to come from members of his Church that completely misunderstand how much of a subtle nudge this was for Christianity to be given more of it's own weight in deciding legal matters.

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Touches on: Politics, Media, Post, Law, Religion

Bit of a round-up: Labour do something good, ISPs fight back, the poor stay uneducated

Fri 15th Feb 2008

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I have a bit of a backlog on news that I wish to write about, though some will probably be kept for a rainy day...but it does mean that there are a few stories here that are small enough to warrant small mention but that I'd like to talk briefly about. The issues are about just who is going to University now and the potential re-emergence of the rich/poor gap in higher education, an update on the idea of ISPs monitoring our internet usage for illegal downloading, and Labour actually making a positive announcement for once. I know, the last bit is actually scarily unreal.

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Touches on: Politics, Internet, Post, Money, Labour, Gordon Brown, University, Education issues, Rich/Poor divide, Benefits, Surveillance, P2P

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So what the hell is going on, Labour are slumping in the polls and yet those most naturally in their shadow able to take their place (the Lib Dems) are failing to capitalise in the polls. And even though the Tories are enjoying high times so much they must think it's the 80's all over again (in more ways than one) they have failed to deliver one serious or credible attack against the government that would show them to be the true heir's to the throne. So to speak. Anyway, on with this weeks Politalks. NSFW as usual, transcript can be found if you go through to read more!