The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) has been cancelled by the Tory led coalition government. Why The Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) Was Important to Poor Children I’m forty years old which means when I was 16 there was nothing like EMA (under a Tory government), the same is true for my wife (a few years younger). […]
Why EMA was Important to Children in Poverty
US Politics : Democrats Hold The Senate, Republicans Win the House
I don’t understand US politics particularly well, though we do watch The Daily Show by Jon Stewart religiously (if that’s representative of US politics, Americans are nuts!). Watching BBC News and the Democrats have held the Senate and the Republicans have gained control of The House of Representatives. Guess that means President Obama will find […]
UK Comprehensive Spending Review Poll
October 20th 2010 coalition government comprehensive spending review, good fiscal management or ideological led Tory changes to government spending? With government spending cuts expected to be as high as 40% in some government departments over the course of this parliament, are we looking at the Conservatives taking advantage of economic strife by pushing for ideological […]
Can Ed Miliband Win the Next General Election for Labour?
I know it’s very early days for Ed Miliband as the new Labour leader, but I’m interested in know how others feel about his chances of steering Labour up to the next general election and beyond? Is Ed Miliband a breath of fresh air for the Labour party, taking a small step to the center […]
Frantic Commonwealth Games Clean Up Political Cartoon
If your wondering, this cartoon is about the Frantic Clean up of the ‘appalling’ conditions of the athlete’s village. It has been a bitter-sweet affair with collapsing foot-bridges and a ceiling. I’ve depicted Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh as joining in with the clean-up effort with the time-less phrase of “Every Little Helps”. Enjoy :D […]
New Labour Leader Ed Miliband
Ed Miliband has won the Labour Leadership 2010. Ed Miliband winning the Labour Leadership is shocking to me. I always thought that David Miliband would win because of the perception of him being more oven-ready and he looked the part, but Ed Miliband won by the trade union vote. It had me at the end […]
Pastor Terry Jones International Burn-a-Koran Day Political Cartoon
Threw together a quick political cartoon about Pastor Terry Jones’ “International Burn-a-Koran Day” and the lunacy about it. Since Pastor Terry Jones announced the “International Burn-a-Koran Day” that it has attracted a lot of media attention. I don’t blame the media, a religious lunatic saying he will burn copies of the Koran on 9/11 the […]
Should Stem Cell Research Be Funded, Practised and Supported by Government
It was only this march when an 11yr old kid got a lifesaving operation injecting his own Stem Cells into his windpipe that fixed it so he can breath. Stem Cell research is the subject of fierce debate, and the there are two sides of this argument. There is the Pro-Stem Cell supporters who agree […]