Posts by giovanni tiso
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Thanky.
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HAH!
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Sorry for being pedantic :)
Go right ahead, Tom Stoppard is a fraud and it must be regularly acknowledged.
Much Daily Mail goodness in this sensational blogpost concerning the BBC appearence of mr. Griffin.
(Concerning which, K-Punk in top form also).
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You don't question an order of your commander in chief, dammit! Seriously, how do they get away with that drivel?
Then again, compared to previous offerings on this subject, this last piece was positively Socratic.
It's good to have you as a resident translator!
Actually, what you cannot spell it without is "dim notions", but I didn't want to sound too clever.
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Even the DomPost is coming around to the idea that perhaps the new policy is a big mistake:
However, there is also the risk the Government's strategy will strangle the education of children. Being able to read, write and calculate is vital, but so too are other areas of the curriculum.
British research suggests that putting too much emphasis on literacy and numeracy, and on the achievement of national standards in those areas, can see other parts of the curriculum squeezed into oblivion.
A nation of spellers who can add up but have little grasp of science, small exposure to the arts and only the occasional foray into physical education while at primary school, is not going to enjoy success either.
Defining success for pupils, schools and teachers in terms that are too narrow would be a mistake, and the Government and its advisers will need to work hard to ensure that does not happen.
This, however, in the context of an editorial whose basic claim is that teachers and principals organisations are not allowed to criticise the policy. Because you cannot spell "Dominion Post" without "bloody stupid".
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Bringing up Whaleoil in a thread on Nazism I believe constitutes Godwinning. I take my hat off to you, sir.
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Me, I just wonder what happens to people when they start to write columns for the SST.
He may have been a good editor, but it's not exactly as if McDonald's editorials for the Listener were any more substantial than this.
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There's a surprisingly good Simpsons episode from last season (SE20EP11), entitled "How the test was won"
A large chunk of series four of The Wire concerns the practical repercussions of No Child Left Behind on inner city schools and the madness of 'teaching to the test'.
Now that I've reminded myself, if somebody needs me I'll be in the bathroom, crying.
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Keep the evening of Friday, November 27 free.
Done. Joy.
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So I come back to discover that my attempt to reverse-Godwin the thread has failed. Oh well, can't win them all I suppose.
I'm with Keir, I think the idea that if it weren't for Churchill the Nazis would have won the war is far too simplistic. At the most one could say that if the position of strenuous resistance that we associate with Churchill had not won the day in Britain, perhaps the war would have lasted longer, and we know what even one day longer of Nazism meant for the people it imprisoned across Europe. But I can't see Nazism winning a war and then turning into a peacetime regime - it just wasn't built for that, and I doubt it could have lasted, holding together an empire spanning from the British Isles to the Soviet Union (which, by the way, I'm far from convinced it would have defeated anyhow).
A while ago I scanned some magazine covers by the German satirist John Heartfield from the early 1930s - they give a pretty good idea of the despair in which the German society found itself at the time, a despair that Hitler was able to turn to strength by means of a global war. But it was a suicide bid, really - how could it have ended except in catastrophe?