Conference, Today, Europe celebrates the 10th Annual European Day of Languages, a European Union initiative to appreciate linguistic diversity in Europe and promote language learning. You might think it a bit of an anorak subject, and perhaps it is, but as a trainee interpreter of French and Spanish, it’s my anorak subject. Britain cannot afford [...]
The Labour Party last week launched an interesting social media experiment. (Tories in the audience will now be yelling “Because you have no money!”) The idea was to let ordinary members create a poster for billboards, as the Tories attempts from high-up ad companies were getting hammered on the internets with their three campaigns ruthlessly [...]
To start the year 2010, let’s look back at 2009. Like many bloggers, I’m going to enter the Orwell Prize, an award for political blogging. Unlike many bloggers, I don’t expect to win. I’m sure it’s a total stitch-up reserved for some snooty journalist. (Prove me wrong, guys, prove me wrong.) How did I pick [...]
Bath filmmakers are being challenged to produce 60 second films to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Bath Music Festival.Suited and Booted Studios, Bath Film Festival and Media Art Bath have joined forces to issues the challenge to filmmakers of all ages. All film entries will be compiled into a feature length DVD, to be [...]
Bath University Debating Society (BUDS) performed excellently at the University of Exeter’s Inter-Varsity tournament on February 2nd, with a stellar performance in the first five rounds before reaching the final. Reunited after the Bristol competition in last October, Hadleigh Roberts and Alex Vakil made up “Talk Bath”. Within the catacombs of Exeter’s Law Department, high [...]
On December 1st, the Bath University Debating Society (BUDS) hosted its annual Inter-varsity competition. A total of 24 teams from around the country participated in the event which took place at the Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution (Queen’s Square, Bath). In the university debating circle, The Bath IV is always held in high esteem [...]
The Bristol Inter-Varsity debating tournament has a strong reputation for high standards and marks the opening of a new debating season. The event took place at Bristol Grammar School on October 26th and 27th with a total of sixty-eight different teams, each comprising of two members. While most universities send around two teams to an [...]
