Uni’s Blog

Roman Polanski is free

As reported on numerous websites such as here on the BBC, Roman Polanski was released from house arrest in Switzerland after his deportation to the US was refused.

Seriously what is wrong with a judicial system when it states ’not about deciding whether he is guilty or not guilty’as the Swiss Justice Minister Eveline Widmer-Schlumpfdid? Since when was it not about him being guilty of being a rapist? Since when was it not about him raping and sodomising a young girl? If it is not about that then what the heck is it about?

I genuinely feel sickened by this. Roman Polanski admitted sex with the 13 year old girl as part of a plea bargain before fleeing the US. The fact that he even got the chance to plea bargain to that charge after having drugged and abused a child is beyond belief. And now, years later when he is captured and able to be transported to face trial for his crime, he is released by a Swiss court and told he is a free man.

Now I am guessing that if if someone drugs and rapes Eveline Widmer-Schlumpff’s 13 year old grand daughter then she might be considering that it is in fact an arguement of whether that man is guilty or not guilty. Maybe if Roman Polanski were to do that she might slightly change her view on all of this.

I am guessing that in the end this all comes down to Polanski being famous and powerful with many friends able to lean on (who I am guessing by this time are all in dier need of spider vein treatment) and ’advise'those responsible for this decision to set him free.

Meanwhile somewhere in America is a family who did have their little girl raped and who never did get justice for her. She is now grown up and has no doubt been forever haunted by the incident.

It all just makes me sick to the stomach.

Growing pains…

I remember my secondary school years rather well now. Everyone had fun, messing about in class, laughing at the teachers and their names and accents, then after school hanging around the corner shop in “New Era"caps which were banned in class.

Then suddenly it all changed. It must have been in the fourth year when we were getting ready for the GCSE’s. We had to study many things for them, be it quadratics or even DNA Testing. I had More

Miley Cyrus has to grow up eventually

In today’s society if you are on television or on the radio you are expected to set a good example for children. If you are young you are expected to be a role model and have no indiscretions or questionable moments. For many years people have viewed Miley Cyrus as being one of the pure girls in Hollywood. Miley is no longer a little girl and a lot of people are finding it hard to grasp.

Miley is an amazing More

Swagger vs The Old Man

High trousers used to be something I could laugh at and mock. Like obscure Causes of hair loss, they were something that happened to other people–always other people. I never thought that a day would come when, almost over-night, I would start to show signs of a downward spiral in to the grim depths of high-trouser-wearing fashion. But that day has come, I must now admit. There is no turning back from this terrible point on.

I walked in to a snooker club with my friend. The evening was set to be an embarrassing series of small disasters piled-up on one another. Firstly not knowing where the balls went, then hitting the balls, then not managing to pocket any at all. But I felt safe and confident in myself. At least I’m not old, I thought, at least I’m not a high trouser wearer!

That was when the youngsters descended on us out of nowhere…youngsters in a snooker club…what next? I thought, ’Pimp My Cue’ on TV? Suddenly, the smile fell of my face as more and more arrived…Tens of them with their own custom-built snooker cues–walking with swagger and with jeans much lower on their hips than I. And it was then that I noticed in the mirrored wall what looked like an old man wearing high trousers. He had my face, this man, and believe me when I say I wanted to kill him.

As the embarrassing disasters piled-up, compounded by the fact that every attempt to hit a ball meant leaning in a certain kind of way which only hitched my trousers up higher, I began to cry inside. I’m doomed! I thought. I’m properly, properly doomed!

But at that point luck shined brightly: the main leader of the low-slung youth gang, his jeans fell down in front of everyone! There, under the spot-lights, I put my hands on my hips and said, “who says wearing trousers around your nipples is a stupid thing to do?”

Missing It

I miss sixth-form days; I’m now in the Nose reshaping business and despite rumours to the contrary, breaking someone’s nose for the hundredth time is not as much fun as you’d think. University is great and everything, but seriously, if I could I would beam myself back to three years ago–the day I walked in to the sixth-form college and realized that it was different from school. I felt like William Wallace must have, I felt like I was a More

Revelations

I am about to make a few statements. None of them are particularly shocking. You may even find yourself reading and thinking I hate to admit it–But that’s me too! Goodness me I’m glad nobody can see inside my head right now, how embarrassing that would be–

1) When I go to purchase a new laptop computer, the last thing I am wondering is how energy-efficient it is. No, I am a girl and a busy girl at that. Therefore More

Raw, Just Raw

Students get a raw deal, I think: raw like buttock surgery . Yes they have their problems, as every group in society does, but come on now, aren’t you forgetting something people? Yes, that’d right: students are also the future politicians, doctors and astrologists of the world OK, astrologists might not be much good to you in your day-to-day life, but what about when you fall off your bike and knock your teeth out?

A small minority of students are More

Pit Eater

I used to work in a call-centre, so I know what it’s like to be the guy on the end of the line who gets shouted at three thousand times a day. And you’d think that the insults get boring after a while, but they never do. Because there are so many insults out there it’s unreal. And the more people you get told to F off by, the more you realise that insulting people in a smart way is More

Some People

Some people simply don’t know how to punctuate their sentences properly when they speak and there really is nothing more annoying than that especially when you’ve been working with English grammar and punctuation for fourteen hours straight and the last thing you want to see is all your hard earned education and expertise slandered in the open air by someone who couldn’t care less about language and probably doesn’t even realize the aggravating effect that they are having on what More

Horse Racing Heaven

Spring is a beautiful season, the trees begin to bear leaf, the birds start to sing and there is a general sense of renewal in the air that can bring a smile to the grimmest of faces. What I most love about this time of year however is the four unparalleled days of excitement taking place in the South West of England: the Cheltenham Festival! I have gone every year with my sister, ever since her intial interest in Locum More