No.1

Hiiiii to all the currently imaginary people reading this! I've never written a blog before, but I'm a student and therefore in dire need of more ways to distract myself from contributing to the graduation effort. So let us remove outselves momentarily from the day to day drudgery of life and enjoy the power of the written word...

OK, now I've set myself the highly unattainable task of providing you with something worth reading, where to start??? This shouldn't be too tricky considering my mother thinks I'm highly opinionated and difficult. But I'm not used to forcing my opinions on people (unless I've had a lot of vino, in which case I'm unaware I'm doing it) so I'm going to start with something that pretty much everyone has an opinion on. Or should have anyway.

Who watched Question Time with Nick Griffin the other day? And who, even if they watched Family Guy instead, was aware of whole furore from the news? I was completely behind the BBC giving him the opportunity to speak to the nation - after all, lots of us have been voting for his party recently, and these people needed to see what it is they've actually voted for. And how can we call ourselves a free-thinking democracy if we only allow certain ideals and views to be vocalised? Now, don't get me wrong, I think Griffin is the most deluded, manipulative, racist, xenophobic, fascist bell-end ever to set foot on BBC ground, but if we try to silence those we disagree with, doesn't that put us on an equal footing? And if I was ever likened to Nick Griffin in any way I'd have to shut myself away and become a hermit from the shame.

I may leave it there for now... I am, after all, supposed to be writing a close analysis of Grace Nichols' The Price We Pay for the Sun which is due tomorrow morning. And I've only written a third of it. SO... so long, farewell, auf wiedersehn, adieu. xx