Steve’s Student Blog

Solving Britain’s budget deficit

I was just reading this post over at SmEnigin; I fully agree with this post that Britain has encountered a ’no win'situation with regards to the new budget. If the government doesn’t make these changes then it is only going to delay the inevitable and risk putting the country in even more economic debt. As the government introduces these radical spending cuts, Britons are concerned about the future of their hospitals, their schools and other public services that will More

A tough approach to junk food

The UK has seen a pretty tough approach to junk food, as the government has introduced the famous ’Change4Life’ campaign to introduce healthy eating and exercise in order to make our nation more healther.

However the president of Mexico has decided on a more tougher approach by banning junk food altogether in its public and private schools. According to an article in the Telegraph, and another article in Care2, Mexico will ban all junk food in all of its 220,000 More

Be Better Than Pre-School

A friend of mine recently sent me a letter (It began “Hey Mate, working for botox london is wicked, I get loads of free time at work to write letters like this…). I shall repeat that, for all those who rarely hear the word “letter”: a friend of mine recently sent me a letter. Yes, written by my friend’s own fair hands. A real letter, with real love and attention to detail.

Being in London, I don’t have time More

Volcano Vs Money

“If you’re going to live on planet earth,” my granddad recently said, shaking his fist at me in that way that meant ’Where’s the tea? Your Grandmother’s late, again!'“the best advice I can give is don’t use those rubbish barbecues, them ones that aren’t gas, the gas ones are much better and more thoroughly cook the meat—“

“Yes Granddad,” I said, “but get to the point, yeah?”

“—Hold your horses my son!”

“Horses held…”

“And don’t build your village at More

Misery Moo

The trains used to be miserable. As miserable as mole removal. Do you remember? The only thing worse than getting the train by foot was getting the train with a bike. It was a debacle that I used to endure every single week. Every week on the way to London, the same old battle…

If you were a pedestrian then you were treated like a human being. If you had a bicycle with you, however, you were treated More

The Facts

Best-sellers, as anyone who actively reads knows, are a law unto themselves. One would think that a studying of the yearly list would bequeath some profound secrets. Wrong. The lists appear to be meaningless–Or are they?

No, of course they are not meaningless, that’s the simple answer, although it’s certainly true that every list seems about as mysterious as can be. All of these books, generally speaking, deserve to be where they are. I’m not talking about just the books, More

An Alternative NHS Argument

This is an argument about NHS hospitals, but not as you know it. And no, I’m not talking about debates over the future of abdominoplasty or how much doctors get paid. My attack goes something like this: leave the people who clean the hospitals alone for a minute, will you?

I’m talking about the people whose job it is to clean every square inch of the hospital, of course. The unsung heroes of the hospital: those who do all the More

No Baggins, No Potter

Over the last few years we have seen the popularity of a boy with a scar on his forehead shoot through the roof. With every new novel and now with every new movie, the popularity and craze surrounding the Harry Potter series gets bigger and bigger. The money that the franchise is worth is phenomenal and it is safe to say that JK Rowling could run a country by herself with the money she has made.

I tried reading the More

Should The NHS Really cut More Beds

The NHS is currently being urged to cut approximately 30,000 beds from hospitals. The claim for this level of cuts is that this is not a financial decision, but a practical one, stating that the number of beds in hospitals is not representative of the number of patients who need them.

The patients that would not require beds would be the ones that they would send home for proper care. Those with serious medical conditions who require constant professional More

Not A Party Pooper

I am not a party-pooper. You want proof? 1) I have never popped a child’s balloon in my life and I never intend to (unless a child kicks me in the backside, in which case I’d have good reason to and would do so to all his balloons, not just one). 2) I laugh up to ten times per day at stupid things which aren’t even funny (even about silly pranks like the one Jim pulled about Laser Hair Removal More