Rotten Easter Clegg

The hilarity in the house of parliament continues. This time, while Nick Clegg is out there preaching honesty to the House of Commons and teaching them to acknowledge that when it comes to the administration of internships there is "a lot to be desired", David Cameron pops up on the Daily Telegraph and lets the world know he is "very relaxed" about offering internships to people he knows, in fact, he has his neighbour coming in.

This continuous battle of remarks, in the media, between our leaders really makes one wonder whether the two should just check what they are saying with each other. When stepping into such an unusual, and quite frankly ridiculous, partnership Clegg and Cameron were the people who really knew how little they have in common. Yet, in stead of attempting to represent themselves as a united power and give Britain a sense of strength and security, they continuously contradict and attack each other in the most public way possible .

The core of this problem is even more specific - they never discuss the essentials. While Liberal and Conservative values clash on absolutely everything and their changes to education have caused the march of over 500,000 demonstrators in March, the two never fail to argue over something fundamentally insignificant. While NHS and higher education cuts are causing worry and unemployment, our Prime Minister makes sure to outline he is "not ashamed of" going to a public school. Thank you David, for a split second there, in between the unemployment and destruction of social mobility you are creating, I was so distressed at the thought that you were!

Mirela Ivanova

Beastly Review

This is the predictable and rather derivative story of Kyle (Alex Pettyfer), the rich, pretty and arrogant high school boy who gets cursed by Kendra (Mary-Kate Olsen) and turned into a repulsive mess in order to explore the importance of inner beauty. He then develops a relationship with Lindy (Vannessa Hudgens) who sees through his ugliness and have you guessed it yet? Yes, they live happily ever after. For what it is, this film does offer an unusual and particularly unrealistic, take on Beauty and the Beast, and for who is in it, this film will probably attract a wide teenage girl audience, yet the characters lack depth and within the script, there seems to be no space for it. The otherwise impressive Neil Patrick Harris presents us with possibly the warmest character in the film, playing blind teacher Will. But even with his attempts to drag this film into the sphere of interesting, the work holds its weight in the foreseeable and not particularly impressive. The strangeness in the events and, most of all, the extremely implausible character response to all of the even more implausible events makes this film a weak desert. Eat only if starving.

Mirela Ivanova

The Gaddafi Issue

As the representative of the people and protector of all human rights violation the United Nations agreed on sending a series of air strikes to Libya. On March 19 the strikes began after a 10-0 vote and five abstentions. The country is now pronounced in official civil war and two entities are claiming government. The smell of revolution has filled the air, except where it is diluted by a series of French, British and American bombs. So, why Libya? With the rapid spread of revolutionary movements all throughout the Middle East and the, more than few, dictators in place who share Gaddafi’s principles why did the woodcutter of protection chose this riding hood’s house? When it comes to human rights violation and genocide China and North Korea both hold a big bad wolf and yet the Union has turned into the blind grandmother when the wolfs hold nuclear weapons. This process of protection seems to hold a prerequisite process of selection. Do we choose to protect rights or national relations?

Let us jump just under 100 years back. Its 1917 and Russia is in period of turmoil and civil war. Two entities are claiming government. Sound familiar? The League of Nations at the time, however, was just as useless as the air strikes have been toward Libya, so the Allies set out onto a mission to support the more liberal, more Western, of the two powers – the White army. Let us name them the Little White Riding hood for the purpose of this exercise, shall we? So the Little White Riding hood is provided with money and a big axe to cut of the big bad wolf’s head. Yet, no woodcutter comes to help her. The Riding hood is- well you can imagine the story. Was this useful? Not particularly. But was it fair? Well, yes.

It is about time that the United Nations stop trying to act as the overprotective parents who can solve all their children’s issues with force and punishment. It is about time we stop forcing and start supporting the revolution. Democratic revolutionary groups need resources, not an angered dictator. After all isn’t a process of revolution a process of evolution?

As western countries we went through this shift of power from the majority to the minority, far too long ago and it seems we have forgotten that state sovereignty still exists. These countries have rights over their people and the avoidance to follow them would not present the UN as the woodcutter at all. “This is not another Iraq” our prime minister reiterates, and yet that is what it’s shaping out to be. It’s time the UN drops the bombs (not literally) and digs deep in their pockets and installs a big bad alarm at the Grandmother’s door, to present Libya with the conditions that allow for revolution. Then, the big wolf would have to run back to the forest. Take Mubarak as an example.

Mirela Ivanova