tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post5022419516431948780..comments2024-02-21T08:52:55.878+00:00Comments on Your Freedom and Ours: Displacement activityHelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13799545178433498944noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-14804125475657678792011-04-16T19:56:15.000+01:002011-04-16T19:56:15.000+01:00Gawain has a curious point. Surely an earlier law,...Gawain has a curious point. Surely an earlier law, such as one dated 1701, cannot breach a later law?<br />Surely the later law breaches the earlier?Peter Melianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-11633054973177764402011-04-16T12:32:09.000+01:002011-04-16T12:32:09.000+01:00'...above all, our education system...'
T...'...above all, our education system...'<br /><br />There is no willingness in the education establishment to improve things. There may (just possibly) be the desire, but the will is absent. <br /><br />Talking recently to the writers and evaluators of A-level examination papers, I was told that some sentences were too long: candidates' attention spans were too short to be engaged by long, complex sentences. Then why don't we try to stretch them? I asked. If we lament the fact of short attention spans, why don't we make some small attempt to combat the problem by challenging the candidates instead of pandering to them? The response was just a lot of defeatist shrugging. And these, please note, are the good guys. They hate and regret this sort of thing, but being in a position to resist and reverse it, they do nothing.<br /><br />And that is a tiny example of a tiny proportion of the problems. The best are resigned to defeat, capitulation and appeasement.Shakassocnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-7423432580892846102011-04-16T12:13:14.000+01:002011-04-16T12:13:14.000+01:00When pretty much everything is done by the EU, you...When pretty much everything is done by the EU, you have to give the poor dears something to do with their time and our money.Robertnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-4742726306350291752011-04-16T12:04:37.000+01:002011-04-16T12:04:37.000+01:00Sounds like a good idea. Then we can get all sorts...Sounds like a good idea. Then we can get all sorts of people worked up about yet another displacement activity.Helennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4057487038565855826.post-11571439407380639912011-04-16T11:33:55.000+01:002011-04-16T11:33:55.000+01:00I was wondering whether to pit a PQ in about this,...I was wondering whether to pit a PQ in about this, does the 1701 Act of Settlement breach EU anti discrimination legislation. I just wonder if HMG is jumping before she is pushed.Gawainnoreply@blogger.com