Tim Worstall links to an insane comment on the site of progressive Matthew Yglesias who mulls over Youth Decay: In general, teenagers are going to be low on the educational attainment scale and also lacking in impressive job qualifications beyond formal education. It’s perhaps a sign of a more efficient, […]
Remember my struggling with a paper on how best to deal with failing/fragile states? Thanks to all those who sent ideas. Here is an extract from the finished product, which lists some of the grisly dilemmas which arise at the practical and policy levels alike: There will be no consensus […]
Remember the stirring if eccentric song by Nick Lowe, Nutted by Reality ..? Well I heard they castrated CastroI heard they cut off everything he hadWhat a dirty low down thing to doTo mess him up like that They dumped him in the jungleIn the land of the sugar caneEver […]
Talking of education, President Obama’s idea of exhorting America’s children to work hard via a nationwide address to schools is (of course) encountering resistance as did a similar initiative by President Bush in 1991: … Critics are particularly upset about lesson plans the administration created to accompany the speech. The lesson […]
Yet more UK pupils are getting A grades at A-Level. Since on the face of it there is no evidence that our progeny are smarter than we are (and plenty pointing in exactly the opposite direction), is the only explanation that the exams are getting easier? Thus: A survey found that […]
Ha. Fooled you. You thought you were getting BBRU at Suz Blog hosted by LibDem tough blonde ‘cookie’ Susanne Lamido. But we swapped. So you have me instead. All the best BBRUs try witty themes, or at least cogent categories. This helps those who want to skip the political […]
Remember Margaret Thatcher on ‘society’? Thus: And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after ourselves and […]
Mark Steyn is usually known as a writer delivering sharp witty jabs against progressive ideas and people: Obama’s a community organizer. We’re the community. He organizes us. What part of that don’t you get? But he also turns out strikingly thoughtful and interesting pieces about civilisational concerns. Such as this terrific essay about how […]
Liam Murray tries to look at healthcase provision according to some basic principles, and is unimpressed with the idea that the state back out: If you can’t afford healthcare then you have no such personal liberty. In a rich, developed country like the US it offends decency for anyone to […]
My young issue of the non-distaff side had a turbulent upbringing. Between 1996 and 2003 they lived in Russia, Croatia, Bosnia, USA, England, Serbia and Poland. Seven countries in some seven years. This took its toll in educational terms. In Sarajevo they were among the first intake in the newly […]
