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Ben Goldsworthy

11th November 2016

To bloom side by side: the red and the white poppy

There's a fair bit of military floating around my family. On dad's...

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23rd May 2016

The NUS is a joke – let’s leave it for our own sake

The NUS has been in the news a lot lately. At their national...

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15th February 2015

Facebook- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

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Ben Goldsworthy reviews Facebook’s complicated history as it celebrates its launch as [thefacebook.com] back in February 2004.

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