Human nature has inspired a whole host of wonderfully complex and intriguing debates; nature/nurture, original sin, predisposed personalities. So surely the next debate will be, if nobody’s watching, does everybody take what they can?
 

Opportunity, fairness and equality. This was the core ethos when New Labour came to power in 1997.
 
Blair promised that everyone in Britain will be given a fair chance to succeed and Brown promised to eliminate the ‘boom and bust’ culture. But a surge of wealth and opportunism had to come at a price.
 
Fast forward 12 years and we’re deep into a recession, a culture of overspending and over borrowing has left the country in economic hangover and the people in charge seem oblivious to it all. We’re experiencing the bust …

The decision at Exeter University to overturn a ban on having the British National Party to speak there is in some ways, an admirable one.

UCLan vice-chancellor Malcolm McVicar has had his plans to make learning a foreign language compulsory for all new students rejected by staff.