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Personal Political Opinion and Comment
Listed: Nov 19, 2011
Voice of a Citizen ― Today, I leave Selly Oak… sad times. I’m back next year although goodness knows where I’ll be living, as the joke has been amongst my friends I have been living in the middle of nowhere, probably one of the furthest places ...
Tags: Lifestyle, Blogging, Birmingham, Politics, Birmingham, Degree
Esainsbury ― 5 days ago
Voice of a Citizen ― In 2012, 65% of pupils – 65,000 children – who had achieved Level 5 in maths and English tests at the end of primary school failed to attain A* or A grades in both these subjects at GCSE. BBC News, 13/06/13 An Oftsed report suggests ...
Tags: Education, Politics, Challenging, Comprehensive Schools, Grammar Schools, League Tables
Esainsbury ― 6 days ago
Voice of a Citizen ― So, I guess rather a different post from those I’ve done so far… recently I have found trawling through images, photographs and artwork really enjoyable, relaxing and comforting. Although not a new interest having been an art student...
Tags: Art, Culture, Lifestyle, #JuneBlogChallenge, Albert Ecker, Artwork
Esainsbury ― 1 week 23 hr ago
Voice of a Citizen ― The latest ‘whistle-blower’ (a Mr Snowden), albeit some would say criminal, has leaked a vast array of confidential documents including blueprints of NSA Surveillance package 2.0 after he found the US Government’s NSA ...
Tags: Satire, #JuneBlogChallenge, American, Barack Obama, China, Chinese
Esainsbury ― 1 week 1 day ago
Voice of a Citizen ― On Sunday, there was a rather amusing episode on the Sunday Politics as Alex Jones who can only be really described as a ‘swivel eyed loon’ disrupted the show in what was apparently all an act according to Andrew Neil who tweeted...
Tags: Law, Politics, UK, USA, #JuneBlogChallenge, 1984
Esainsbury ― 1 week 2 days ago
Voice of a Citizen ― The last few weeks, and the last day or two especially I have had a lot of time to think over where I am in life, what I’ve achieved this last year and what my hopes are for the future… I’ve reached that point in my life where ...
Tags: Blogging, Lifestyle, #JuneBlogChallenge, Courage, Decisions, Friends
Esainsbury ― 1 week 3 days ago
Voice of a Citizen ― The post below is an article not previously published that I wrote reflecting on the importance of protest around the time of the Occupy movement in November 2011… is it still relevant even now, I wonder – especially considering the...
Tags: Politicians, Politics, UK, USA, Camps, Canada
Esainsbury ― 1 week 4 days ago
Voice of a Citizen ― The United Nations is a topic of immense interest to myself, my interest having been sparked in secondary school through involvement with Model United Nations and has continued for the past 4 years. Over that time I have run the Model United ...
Tags: Birmingham, UN, World Politics, APPG, Baroness Amos, David Eastwood
Esainsbury ― 1 week 5 days ago
Voice of a Citizen ― Yesterday, Zac Goldsmith’s stance was joined by Douglas Carswell MP (Conservative) and John Woodcock MP who both put questions to the Prime Minister on the proposed Recall legislation that the government plans to introduce to the House of...
Tags: Elections, Politicians, Politics, UK, World Politics, #JuneBlogChallenge
Esainsbury ― 1 week 6 days ago
Voice of a Citizen ― I have nothing to say… just watch the video and appreciate it. I sat here thinking of how to sum up the events of today with the passing of the second reading in the House of Lords. Yet there are no words, just the thought that up and down...
Tags: Politics, Lifestyle, USA, UK, France, New Zealand
Esainsbury ― 2 weeks ago
Voice of a Citizen ― If any time is good enough it is now to put my case on the flaws of those arguments which seek to challenge the Equal (Same Sex) Marriage Bill and are used to reason why it shouldn’t proceed to the statute books. Particularly prevalent is ...
Tags: Lifestyle, Politicians, Politics, Religion, UK, Bestiality
Esainsbury ― 2 weeks 1 day ago
Voice of a Citizen ― So, with the recent alleged Lobbying scandal surrounding Patrick Mercer MP, a number of debates have resurfaced including the proposal being considered by the coalition government of instituting a Lobbyist Register. Now, I don’t plan to ...
Tags: Politics, UK, #JuneBlogChallenge, Backbone, Charter, Coalition
Esainsbury ― 2 weeks 2 days ago
Currently around a half of organizations ranging in size from SMEs to large multinationals ...
∙ One of the few things I consider when buying a frock is the print. Growing up, I ...
My first thought when I saw the topic for this weeks Photo Challenge: Curves was the ...