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Andrew Henley

• The LSE should give Trenton Oldfield his tuition fees back
  Having watched Trenton Oldfield’s protest unfold at today’s Oxford v Cambridge boat race one can only wonder what his alma mater the LSE spent all the money from Gaddafi on.  It certainly didn’t go on teaching him the first thing about political philosophy.  Having come dangerously close to witnessing Oldfield being...
  
  
• Why George Galloway won in Bradford
  The victory by George Galloway in the Bradford West by-election says a lot about disillusionment with the three ‘mainstream’ political parties and for that we have a lot to thank Galloway for – even if we don’t always agree with his stance.  He’s shown up brilliantly just how disconnected the...
  
  
• Criminal Records: “Ban the Box” in Philadelphia
  Here’s a brilliant video on how people have been excluded from employment and society generally due to a criminal record in the US.  Well done to the good people at the University of Pennsylvania Law School for producing it.  Sadly, we have many people in public office in this country...
  
  
• Where does Labour stand on rehabilitation?
  Having recently been relieved of his duties as political editor at the News of the World (which is a bit like calling The Count from Sesame Street a ‘chief economist’) David Wooding finds himself at The Sun churning out the sort of ‘hate-of-the-day’ pieces which the Murdoch press is famous...
  
  
• “Public servants in poo”
  For those of you that use Google Chrome as your t’interwebz browser go to this page on the Guardian website about Gideon Osborne’s latest entry in the ‘political suicide of the year’ competition.  For some reason the tab at the top of the browser reads “Public servants in poo”.  I couldn’t...