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Monthly Archives: August 2012
Disabled people: heroes or scapegoats?
I wish the Paralympics well, but I can’t help noting a certain discrepancy between the celebration of the Games and the distinctly less celebratory attitudes towards the disabled that are prevalent in British society. Yesterday David Cameron said that the … Continue reading
Nostalgia for the Light
On a rainy Bank Holiday evening, we drove through the last murky dregs of the-summer-that-never-was to Sheffield to see the Chilean director Patrizio Guzmán’s wonderful Nostalgia for the Light (Nostalgia de la Luz). Guzmán is a documentary filmmaker and a … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema
Tagged Atacama desert, Chilean coup, Nostalgia for the Light, Patrizio Guzmán, Pinochet
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Damages
It’s an unwritten law of international relations that some lives matter while others don’t matter at all. In practice this means that some people – or peoples – can be killed with complete impunity by more powerful states, while civilians … Continue reading
Michael Gove: Failure is an Opportunity
Downstairs on the living room table, the envelope containing my daughter’s GCSE results sits unopened, awaiting her return from Edinburgh later today. We have resisted the temptation to fling ourselves upon it – or steam it open and take a … Continue reading
Posted in Education
Tagged dumbing down, English GCSE, GCSE results fall, John Townley, Michael Gove, Michael Wilshaw, OFQUAL GCSE debacle, Ofsted
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