UK ’sailors’ were in Iranian waters- More spin

You may recall the story of the British sailors (wait, they weren’t out yachting, they were in the royal navy and were most likely spying-see the post before this) that were captured by Iran last year. The official line of the British and US governments was that Iran had captured the Britons in Iraqi waters [...]

Adopting the language of the right

Just a short thought, I won’t keep you long.
The left is so easily lured into using the rights propagandic vocabulary. Think of the spin terms ‘Weapons of mass destruction’, ‘coalition of the willing’, ‘the surge’, left critics seems to think that inverted commas is a sufficient satirical counter spin.
The one spinning term that clarifies the [...]

I no longer want to listen to Bowie or Clapton

Don’t meet your heroes they always say. Well, I haven’t met either of them, but I saw Clapton in concert once. After reading what I have, I don’t want to meet either of them now.
Sample if you will an excellent article on the ‘Rock Against Racism’ concert of 30 years ago in London.
It was 5 August [...]

Socio Economic factors affect your ability to get an education-What a shock

A new report from the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) has given a detailed study of the reasons why some teenagers and children do not achieve as much academic success as others.
The report was carried in the Irish Examiner, a daily newspaper of good reputation. The article says of the report,
It found positive factors [...]