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As I was watching this year’s Remembrance Sunday service, I inevitably got into a discussion with my housemate over whether it really means anything anymore to the majority of young people (including ourselves) who have never had anything to do with war, whether this be from having relatives serving in the Armed Forces or even [...]

In Flanders Fields
by John McCrae, May 1915
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.
Take [...]

 
 Will Bickford Smith (NUCA President) has just had his interview with YBF published on their website.
 
Click here to see what he had to say!
 
 

“The United States is a beacon for hope and opportunity and change…You [Brown] killed change when you bottled that election, you buried change when you appointed Peter Mandelson”- David Cameron

David Cameron has ripped into Gordon Brown at PMQs today when he asked whether his congratulatory message to the President Elect included the phrase “this is no time for a novice?”
Cameron then asked Brown about the more serious issue- that the recession will hit us harder than every other State in the Europe other than [...]

How are these the people leading (or at least hoping to lead) our so called ‘representative’ NUS? The more I research, the more I feel embarrassed and angry about the NUS.
So to any SU Council members reading this, please vote against re-affiliation to the NUS for Nottingham University, and let us retain our proud status [...]

 

“I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.” – Margaret Thatcher

 
With a debate and vote coming up on Tuesday 4th November about NUS re-affilition, I felt that it was only right to say a couple of things in relation to the NUS.
As a student, I cannot see what the NUS does for us. Rather, the only thing I know the NUS does for us is [...]

 “A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.”- Benjamin Disraeli

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