http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-debates-2015-broadcasters-to-go-ahead-with-programmes-despite-prime-ministers-absence-10091669.html Tories go to war over BBC's 'institutional arrogance' Election 2015: Seven-party TV debate plan Cameron and the Conservatives, demonstrating all too clearly how holding political office generates and perpetuates arrogance and contempt for any who disagree with them. As someone once said in a different context, "Who does this guy Cameron actually think he is?" The "final offer" from the Prime Minister implies he believes that nothing can take place unless it is on his terms, in his timescale and in his format. At the end of the day, during election campaigning and on the hustings, Cameron is no more important than a couple of thousand other men and women, many of whom are seeking to satisfy their own ego's by attempting to enter the House of Commons as MP...
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http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/feb/01/primary-school-maths-grammar-nicky-morgan-education#comment-47016794 Primary school pupils face new maths and grammar tests under Tories Why is this latest "set of punitive policies" labeled as a new initiative from the Conservatives? Teaching children multiplication tables and how to read by the age of 11 is not new, neither is it unique. Some years ago, more in fact that I care to remember, I attended the Ruby Street Primary School in London. The classroom of 1B, my first year class under Miss Cox, had posters around the walls with "Times Tables" on each of the posters ranging from 2 to 12, which had to be learned. Every child in the class (classes usually had 48 or more children at that time) had to learn by heart each of the tables and then had the daunting challenge of standing in front of Miss Cox, (and the assembled class) and reciting 2x2=4 and so on through to 12x12=144. Not all at t...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/tv-radio/after-jeremy-clarkson-row-veteran-dj-is-forced-to-quit-for-accidentally-playing-song-with-nword-in-9349709.html DJ is 'forced to quit' for accidentally playing song with 'N-word' in D J David Howe Complete lunacy and BBC hypocrisy. David Howe sacked whilst Jeremy Clarkson is given another, another chance. Jeremy Clarkson. The whole sorry tale demonstrates how hypocrisy and political correctness have become a way of life not only at the BBC but in the country generally. The "offending" music is by Bert Ambrose & His Orchestra, a highly acclaimed British dance band, of the 1930's and 1940's. Ambrose And His Orchestra The track "The sun has got his hat on", by Ambrose and recorded in 1932 can be viewed on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=2fnxruBcKdc.
Will we allow this evil murderer to remain in the UK, when we deport a 19year old girl studying for "A" levels?
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/convicted-killer-fights-deportation-to-crowded-and-dirty-italian-prison-where-he-will-be-unable-to-call-his-wife-9278717.html Convicted killer fights deportation to ‘crowded and dirty’ Italian prison where he will be 'unable to call his wife' Danilo Restivo This is another glaring example of the argument and criticism which I used when condemning the deportation of Yashika Bhageerathi back in early April. http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/a-callous-outrage-yashika-bhageerathi.html At that time,I received many comments to the effect that she deserved to be deported due to being an "illegal immigrant" and that events such as those concerning Danilo Restivo as described in this article, the family rights connections or the traumatised cat, did not in fact happen. To all those detractors at the time, and to all those PC morons supporting this evil man now, these events do happen and they are an out...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/12/28/david-blunkett-tv-regulation_n_4512182.html?utm_hp_ref=uk David Blunkett Says Satirical TV Shows Need Tighter Regulation The Rt Hon David Blunkett MP Blunkett seeks to put the self interests of politicians above criticism and comment. On a daily basis, politicians of all parties, leave themselves open to ridicule and mockery, with their pomposity, arrogance and hypocrisy. Were it not for Satirical TV Shows, people like Blunkett (who is probably not the worst of a poor bunch) would have carte blanche, to trot out their prejudices without any possibility of widely circulated public comment. To propose, as Blunkett does, that such television shows "Need Tighter Regulation" suggests a desper...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/questioned-for-taking-a-country-walk-with-his-son-even-will-self-couldnt-make-it-up-8773439.html Questioned for taking a country walk with his son "Will" Self author, journalist and television personality. "Paedophile hysteria" and "political correctness" mixed together detain a man for taking a walk with his son. Yet, history shows us that we allow children to be killed in their own homes, as everybody from school teachers to police and social workers and neighbours know or at least suspects that the child is being abused but nobody does anything to prevent the inevitable. All those "lessons to be learned" from endless reports and investigations are quickly forgotten. “Can there be a more disturbing parable of the Britain we have become?” asked Mr Self. Exactly.