Archive from February, 2008

THERE are many challenges facing us as a society over the next few years. The major parties are desperately jostling for influence and power, to be the party in control come the next general election. With this jostling comes promises, something the British electorate are more than used to by now. But if we look at the progress we have made as a society across the last ten years, many things are perhaps not quite where we expected. Technology has been developing and progressing at an ever-increasing rate; consumerisms’ expansion has been exponential, the desire bred into us to upgrade and invest. Yet what about the issues, and the problems that are addressed come election time - poverty, equality, access to education, social mobility and the economy?