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Barack Obama Wins 2012 US Presidential Election – Ohio called for Obama
Barack Obama has won the 2012 US Presidential Election. He has won the crucial state of Ohio bringing his total to 275. The news was greeted with jubilant reactions in Obama HQ in Chicago, Illinois. He will be in office for a second and final four years. Mitt Romney is currently on 203, 52 votes behind […]
US Election: 3AM Round-up – The Story so Far
We are well on our way now, however there are still some important and big states yet to be called for either candidate. Virginia, Ohio and Florida, the three most important swing states are among those that have not yet been called and all three are very very close. In Florida, the epicentre of the […]
US Election: 1AM Round-Up – The Story So Far
It is still very early days but results are beginning to drip in and so far Mitt Romney has taken the lead. The Republican candidate, was the first out of the starting blocks with both Indiana and Kentucky being called for him. Just over half an hour later, West Virginia and then South Carolina were […]
US Election: America Votes – Owen’s Prediction
Polls across the United States are now open and millions of Americans will be voting for who they want to lead them for the next four years. It has been billed as one of the closest US presidential elections in recent history with both candidates going into polling day in nothing short of dead heat, […]
US Presidential Election 2012: Owen’s Companion Guide
In exactly two weeks the most important scheduled political event of the year will take place. The results of the 2012 US presidential election will have repercussions across the globe. How the world reacts to future international incidents, how the economy will look in four year’s time, how successful we are in dealing with the […]
LGBT: Do numbers matter when it comes to equality?
ACCORDING to figures released by the Office of National Statistics only 2.6% of people questioned in a recent survey said they identified as either lesbian, gay or bisexual. This has lead the Christian Institute, which claims to be “a nondenominational [sic] Christian charity committed to upholding the truths of the Bible”, to question whether such […]
Shorthand: The drama, the boredom, the insanity
For some strange reason, even in this highly technical age where you can get dictaphones as small as a USB-stick, shorthand – which should be renamed ‘journalistsbain’ – is still an important addition to an unemployed journalists arsenal, and the only one I have not managed to get so far. A hundred words a minute […]
The depressing nature of job applications
Applying for jobs is by no means a past time I enjoy, so to give myself a break I thought I would post an update on my progress. So good news first, this Wednesday I start another stint of work experience at the Llanelli Star, which is good because my portfolio is beginning to look […]
Book Club: Edition ONE: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet by David Mitchell
So when I’m not frantically applying for jobs, writing or feeling totally frustrated about my current situation in life I have a lot of spare time to read. For the last four years the vast majority my reading has been political philosophy. My love of fiction (or at least pseudo-fiction) has had to make way […]
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The Leveson Report: The Views of an Unemployed Journalist
Lord Justice Leveson has just released his report on press standards in the United Kingdom, and the fourth estate collectively held its breath while he announced that he would recommend a new independent, self-regulating body, recognised by governmental legislation, to oversee the practices of the press in the future. It falls short of the press’s […]