Everywhere we go, people stop and ask us, who we are, and where we come from...

What do you write for the first post of a new blog? Do you outline the intent and purpose behind the blog, write a series of witty epithets about the essentially egocentric nature of blogging or simply dive straight into whatever subjects you hope to cover with the hope that you’ll emerge with a vaguely coherent? If your anything like me you’ll probably attempt all of these things and confuse the hell out of whoever reads the post, presuming (of course) that anyone does, and sound like a pretentious asshole in the process.

Anyway, welcome to the Nottingham University Labour Students (NULS) blog. The basic idea is to allow our members to post of whatever issues they fancy and to give a platform for discussion of major and minor issues. I’m sure that we will never able to compete with the truly informed and educated blogs but we’ll try...