A week of celebration

Two monumental moments in political history took place this week - last Tuesday, US President Barack Obama was inaugurated - the first African American in history to be bestowed with that honour - and on Friday, it was announced that On That Point...'s regular contributor James Bartle had been re-elected to the UK Youth Parliament. Everyone is thrilled at the Society, and his big work load has meant that was again unable to blog for us all this week. He even missed his first debate for months!

And, looking to this week's debate, which was on sex education, you can grab the full low-down in our newsletter The Weekly Conversation; but one piece of information you can't get from that particular publication is that whilst James maintains a healthy lead on the league table, our previous holder of second place, Chris Redfearn, has freefallen to fourth. Despite winning a relatively low proportion of his debates, David Larke now occupies the second place slot, whilst TJ is up to third. Chris will be hoping to restore himself in a debate on the Church of England next week. With a bit of luck, James'll bring you news of that in On That Point... next week.

I certainly won't be here so until the next time...bye!

New Year, new look, news!

James is taking a well-earned break from the blog this week - in the midst of examinations and feeling the pressure of awaiting the result of his recent campaign to be re-elected to the UK Youth Parliament. So this week, it's me, Laurie, in the hot seat, with the latest live news from the Heaton Manor Union Society.

If you haven't yet visited our new-look site, please do so now. You can give your opinions on this by taking part in our online survey. For the low-down on this week's debate, please see our newsletter, The Weekly Conversation.

Well, that's about it for this week! Remember, James normally posts a blog here prior to each debate. Hopefully, his quick wit will return to On That Point... next week. If not, you'll be stuck with me again! Bye!