March 2019

  • School students' encouraging views on environmental sustainability

    Since 2010, NUS has researched the expectations and experiences of students in higher education in relation to sustainability, and in 2016 extended the research to also gather the views of students in further education. For the first time in 2018,...

  • Almost halfway to Bedford 2045

    Last month, The Economist ran a long feature article on millennial socialism.  It was mainly about the USA but the Leninist sect now controlling the Labour Party over here were a focus as well.  The emphasis was on new (and...

  • A list of female climate leaders

    To mark International Women's Day, The Ecologist compiled a list of 25 inspirational female "climate leaders" who, it days, will be shaping the climate agenda in 2019.  It only consulted around 100 people in "the field" to compile the list.  There are well-known...

  • Jesus wouldn't make a valuable contribution to Cambridge University

    A spokesperson for Cambridge University's Student Union, the Hon. Mx Fatima Cholmondeley-O'Malley-Ngono, said that when Jesus returns to Earth in the second coming, he would not be invited to the university.  Writing in the University house-mag, Cholmondeley-O'Malley-Ngono explained: "His work...

  • Less waste in space exploration

    It was good to see Egon Musk's Falcon 9 rocket return to Earth the other day by landing the right way up on a floating platform.  The video of it is here, along with a few clips of instances where...

  • SOS-UK

    NUS is in the process of setting up a new charity, called Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK), so it can do more and even better sustainability work.  I have been an enthusiastic supporter of this change for some time. NUS...

  • Gove and Hinds on the climate strikes

    I see that Mr Gove has written in support of the students striking for climate change.  He would never have done that had he still been Education Secretary of State which say s a lot. At the same time, the...

  • Students on Strike again

    The following letter appeared in the Times last Friday: Sir, Children and young people taking part in the school strikes for climate are to be commended, not ridiculed.  The UN intergovernmental panel on climate change has said that we need...

  • Another student strike

    Today, March 15th, sees another demonstration of student concern about the inadequacy of government policy re climate change: Youth Strike 4 Climate Movement [YS4CM]. The organising group is the UK Student Climate Network, working with NUS. Here are the 4...

  • The price of liberty

    Last month, The Economist ran a long feature article on “millennial socialism”. It was mainly about the USA but the Leninist sect now controlling the Labour Party over here were a focus as well. The emphasis was on new (and...