By chance, I’ve stumbled across this video about the new LSE students’ centre. I’m delighted to see this going ahead, although I have a couple of caveats that I’ll come to later. The LSE Students’ Union currently occupies a space that is, frankly, not fit for purpose. The offices for the General Secretary, Treasurer, Societies [...]

I am very proud of some of the things I achieved while active in the LSE Students’ Union. A little while ago, I was contacted by LSESU asking if, as part of the redecoration of the bar, they could have a silhouette of me and a quote to go on the wall. I duly obliged; [...]

The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise – UK acadaemia’s equivalent of the World Cup rankings, except they only come out about twice a decade – has reported. The top ten, with last year’s position in brackets) are 1. Cambridge (1) 2. Oxford (3) 3. LSE (2) 4. IC (4) 5. UCL (8) 6. Manchester (15 as [...]

The BBC News website reports on the Union General Meeting at the LSE SU. Sadly, people are still throwing paper, but the BBC article does make it clear that it’s only a section who like doing that and that, despite an unholy alliance of neoSinclairists and AU people, an amount of serious debate is going [...]

I have finished my exams. After five years, I will be leaving LSE. I went, briefly, to Crush last Friday, my exams having finished on Thursday. Something was different. I’d been the previous week because a friend was in town, and I ended up in Crush with people I’d known in my second year. It [...]

One of the points of free speech, I think, is that it allows people to identify problems and so cause them to be rectified. One of the reasons, I think, for protecting free speech is that this rectification may cause problems for people at the top, who are able to act against speech they dislike. [...]

One of the issues that came up quite a lot in the SU elections last term was the need for an admin assistant up in the advice and counselling centre. The problem, as ever, is a lack of money. A possible solution might be a hundred club. If we could set up a club with [...]

So. I have ‘made the decision’ to defer my exams because I am suffering, as the letter from my psychiatrist attests, from a manic disorder. I use the inverted commas advisedly, as I could not make a decision, it being the only option to me. While things are better now because of the medication and [...]

Well, I did say I was going to put a post up about the SU. This, as they say, is it. It’s all about the LSE Students’ Union, so it may not be of interest to everyone or, indeed, anyone. I suspect and hope that this post will generate some discussion; hell, even some controversy. [...]

I’m not entirely sure about this post, but I think I’m going to make it nonetheless. It will get it out of my system, anyway. With apologies to those of you who are not interested in my bilious attempt to rescue some shreds of self-worth, I’m going to have a go at the Beaver, the [...]