Your point that the government claimed it was to do with spending cuts is a bit wrong. It's to make up for a shortfall in university funding that the government isn't able to (or doesn't want to) continue to plug. I don't understand why that makes media coverage of spending cuts 'lies'?
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.