Happy New Year!

Hello everyone

Well, first off I would like to wish everyone a really amazing new year. Anyone have any resolutions? Mine is not raising my voice during arguments.

The other day, I was talking to one of my friends and I gave them my 'I hate the Government - EVERY Government' policy and they came out with, 'Would you prefer a dictatorship?' That made me think that maybe my motto is a bit misleading, so basically I'll explain it here, if anyone was confused. It effectively means that I would not trust anyone who was running a nation, because power is enough to make anyone corrupt. Agreed, a dictatorship would be even worse, but it doesn't make the idea of the Government any better. The world only runs smoothly when the public are there to remind the Government who's boss.

I also have a few new people to commend:

1) Laurie Penny

Laurie Penny is a really wonderful journalist and blogger who often writes for the Guardian. Her tagline is 'Pop culture and radical politics with a feminist twist'. I first came across her when I discovered an article she wrote about what it is like to be stuck in a kettle in a London protest, which a friend of mine described as, "She comes at it with a much more truthful angle than the BBC who wrote, 'Police eventually surrounded a group of around 150-200 people in Trafalgar Square, where fires with lit, graffiti daubed on statues and missiles thrown at riot police.'" Her blog address is http://pennyred.blogspot.com/ and please check out the list of things that she's written for the Guardian as well.

2) The Stephenson Five

The Stephenson Five are five students who are currently occupying the Senate building at the University of Kent. Student occupations have been happening around the country for weeks now, but most have fizzled out - except this one. The sit-in started on 8 December after Julia Goodfellow, the university's vice-chancellor, signed an open letter condoning the impending rise in tuition fees. The students demand that Goodfellow remove her name from the letter and publicly condemn the rise on the University's website. Although the students could initially come and go, the University has made the independent decision to treat them like criminals and has hired private security guards, from a company known to all and sundry as Campus Watch, to ensure that no one can re-enter once they have left. As students decided to leave for the Christmas holidays, there are now only five students remaining. They are known as the Stephenson Five because they are all going by the surname Stephenson, to make it harder for legal action to be taken against them (which the university are attempting to do.)

I have also found out that my favourite voice actor, Steven Webb, is in a relationship with the veteran actor Stephen Fry! I'm not sure which of them I envy more...

I am considering going to a London protest later this month, but nothing's decided yet.

I think that's about all for now - keep your eyes tuned to this blog, I will hopefully be adding some more stuff in the near future.