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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Blitz Spirit
YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU…. TO COME OUT ON STRIKE You always know you’re doing something right when Max Hastings and the Daily Mail tell you that you’re doing something wrong. Today Hastings is in full flow, calling for ‘Blitz spirit’ … Continue reading
Niall Ferguson – a man of our time
I have never read any of Niall Ferguson’s books and I hope I won’t have to. But I have read his articles and the occasional interview and I have always found him an insufferably pompous, arrogant, self-regarding prat (eg. ” … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Writers and Writing
Tagged Bat Ye'or, Niall Ferguson, Pankaj Mishra, Theodore Lothrop Stoddard
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The one percent
There’s a hilarious pseudo-manifesto by John Kenny in the New Yorker on behalf of a very different Occupy movement. Real laughter in the dark. You can read the whole piece here.
Posted in Age of austerity, US politics
Tagged John Kenny, New Yorker, Occupy movement, the one percent
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The curse of Ofsted
How do I loathe Ofsted? Let me count the ways. Last month inspectors from the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services visited Highfields, the local comprehensive school that my daughter attends. Like most parents I know, I think the school … Continue reading