Category archives for: Youth

Mosquito: revisited

Mosquito: revisited

Remember this?
[Media:http://www.freemosquitoringtone.org/tones/8000.mp3]
Well, following on from a recent comment, I felt I should revise my opinions on this outrageous invention, after my circumstances have changed. My conclusion is still the same: the mosquito should buzz off. However, I can further appreciate the anxieties of many shop owners and residents.
Within your local communities, you can always recognise [...]

Lower the voting age to 16? Don’t make me spew…

Lower the voting age to 16? Don’t make me spew…

It is interesting to see that Julie Morgan, the Labour MP for Cardiff North, has introduced a Private Member’s Bill to lower the voting age from 18 to 16.
One-by-one Conservative MPs rightly lined up to oppose the ridiculous suggestion by Mrs Morgan, wife to the Welsh First Minister Rhodri Morgan. Even the UK Youth Parliament [...]

Buzz off!

Buzz off!

Howard Stapleton should be given a short, sharp slap in the face with a wet kipper for ever creating the tortuous sound of the “Mosquito”.
Not only is it discrimatory towards teenagers and infringes their basic human rights, but it is wildly unfair to the majority of youths who are not unruly, and also to younger [...]

We’re not all bad, promise

We’re not all bad, promise

It was with great anger that I listened to an anecdote from a friend of mine following last Friday’s politics awareness morning.
Whilst the politicians were rightfully stating that we young people are not as bad as the media are trying to make us out to be, the public at large allowed themselves to be spoon-fed [...]

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