Being a student is wonderful in theory: you receive an education from the best professors in their field in whichever subject you’re most passionate about and take the skills you learn into the world of work. In reality, it’s an increasingly demanding sphere where students are required to work long hours on top of study just to make a living. That in mind, activists with the Better Than Zero campaign (see their work in the video below) write for Conter about an empowering series of courses starting tomorrow…

Centrist and right wing commentators have feverishly debated the merits of erecting a statue of Margaret Thatcher at Westminster in the past few weeks. Writer and Greens activist Brian Finlay offers his emphatic repudiation: why would we erect a monument to Thatcher when we're living through one?