Billericay School – SpeakUp!

It’s official. Whether you show interest for the budget cuts or cannot bare the mere mention of them, these cuts have struck, and they are hitting us hard. Wherever you look, in whatever part of society, they seem to come knocking. Some of the services and organisations known to have been severely damaged by the [...]

Perhaps thanks to the televised political debates David Cameron has been the prime minister for the United Kingdom for the past 5 months. In the televised political debates he won over the majority of the public with his well groomed facade which made Gordon Brown’s shabby one eyed appearance look even more in tatters and [...]

What if I suddenly told you that your life is a mistake? Most likely you would feel disrespected, argumentative and that I am utterly and completely out of my mind. But with the evidently sharp increase in population over the last 100 years, with the current population being nearly 7 billion people, it seems new [...]

Time after time, these countless television adverts show us the desperate and horrifying circumstances that many people within developing countries such as within Africa find themselves in. Unfortunately, this cliché has degraded our faith and spirit to help other people entangled in poverty and almost cast a stereotypical influence over developing countries, making the situation [...]

by Rob Smith As shown in the 2010 election, the first past the post system we currently have is shocking as figures show, Conservatives have around 10,000,000 votes whilst Labour have about 8,000,000 and Liberal Democrats have about 6,500,000. Conservatives have 294 seats (as of 12pm Friday the 7th of May) Labour 252 and Liberals [...]

by Alex Escott The 2010 general election promised a refreshing sense of uncertainty and suspense and by no means failed to deliver, despite the Conservatives promising a ‘vote for change’ and Labour inferring that ‘Britain deserves better’ a change for the better came in the form of a different colour. In the early hours of [...]

By Sam Golding Despite the racy title, a hung parliament isn’t when all the MP’s are replaced by porn stars. It’s when no party has a majority of the seats in the houses of parliament, usually because votes are spread out amongst parties more. In the case of the 2010 election, the Conservative party fell [...]

It is time to Speak Up! By Alexander Tyldesley