Beddoes: The ex SU President speaks
By Michael Beddoes – President, University of Lincoln Students’ Union 07/08 Michael Beddoes, Students' Union Acting President 07/08. | Photo: ULSU A Students’ Union is an elected body of ex-students...
View ArticleSeptember around the world with Daniel Hutchinson
By Daniel Hutchinson – President, University of Lincoln Students’ Union. Daniel Hutchinson, Lincoln SU President 08/09. | Photo: ULSU What a summer it has been: the economy and business world has gone...
View ArticleA Vice Chancellor’s Confessions
Chiddick Forty years ago this month I was starting the second year of my course but the third year of my studies at college in London. The numerate reader will calculate from this that I had failed a...
View ArticleProf. Brian Winston on freedom of the press
By Professor Brian Winston – Chair of Communications, University of Lincoln The Linc made a fine debut last year – it got into hot water or more than one occasion which is exactly what the press is...
View ArticleThe technology dilemma
By Andrew Boyers This morning, 250 million text messages will be sent around the country. I’ll probably send five or six of them. And as I finish, I might join the eight million UK Facebook members to...
View ArticleFaddism or Fascism?
Barry Turner asks: Is health advice in our interest? | Photo: The Linc By Barry Turner | Media Law lecturer, University of Lincoln The population is under a deluge of information in the media, often...
View ArticleFormer Liverpool player Nick Tanner on the team’s season so far
Nick Tanner (born 24 May 1965) is a former footballer who played professionally for Bristol Rovers, Liverpool, Norwich City and Swindon Town. He was a defender. | Photo: Getty Images Nick Tanner...
View ArticleEngland v West Indies second test preview
England captain Andrew Strauss will lead his team into the second test at Durham against the West Indies today. | Photo: Paul Pete Hirst looks at England’s performance against West Indies’ second test...
View ArticleGlobe-trotting: Southern Vietnam
Sam Brewster has set out on a globe-trotting journey this summer, visiting exotic destinations throughout Asia. Sam Halfpenny, one of his travelling companions, files this third travel log from...
View ArticleEducation or training? A journalism school dilemma
— Barry Turner teaches law at the Lincoln School of Journalism and the Centre for Broadcasting and Journalism in Nottingham. A regularly recurring question often put by journalism students is “How does...
View ArticleThe super injunction
Illustration: Michael Schofield (Click to enlarge) — By Barry Turner, senior lecturer in media law at the University of Lincoln The media has in recent weeks complained of a use of injunctions to not...
View ArticleShow me some more late-night library love
— Rose Forman, a third-year politics student at the University of Lincoln, contributed with this entry Imagine the scene: it’s almost 2am on a Wednesday night. You’re sitting in the library, so close...
View ArticleEd Miliband should be Labour’s next leader
— Scott Wheeler contributed with this post. As the welfare state faces its biggest cutbacks since its existence, the Labour party – and more importantly the country – deserve a credible opposition....
View ArticleThe class conflict of the coalition’s cuts
— Huseyin Kishi contributed with this report. A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of neo-liberalism. The workers did not cause the worldwide recession, it is the result of the neo-liberalism...
View ArticleFree yourself from freedom of information law
— Richard Orange contibuted with this article. We didn’t have the Freedom of Information Act (2000) when I was the political reporter at the Lincolnshire Echo and a reporter for the Western Daily...
View ArticleCutting universal child benefit is scathing and ideological
— Scott Wheeler contributed with this opinion piece It doesn’t matter what your views are on how to cut the deficit. Paradoxically, cutting child benefit for the top 15% of earners is not an attack on...
View ArticleClegg is a liar and he will pay at the ballot box
— Scott Wheeler contributed with this report Sheffield. One of the biggest student cities in the country, home to Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield. Yep you guessed it — a guy...
View ArticleIt’s time to vote for a better vote
— Contributed by Scott Wheeler Almost a year after Britons went to the polls it’s almost time to vote again as May 5th marks one of the biggest days in recent British history. The referendum on...
View Article‘The best and worst job in the world’
Jonathan Holmes, liberation officer at Lincoln SU from 2010 to 11, gives his perspective and advice to the candidates running in the elections. “Welcome to the best job in the world, and the worst job...
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