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Betjeman Rejection
The following poem, in continuation, was written as a comment for a CiF blog article.
Eliot's damning verdict on Orwell
TS Eliot rejected Orwell's Animal Farm for being 'unconvincing'. Which books would you send back to the author? The Guardian, Monday 30 March 2009 16.30 BST
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Multi-culturalism is based on a load of auld fibs. Respect is what is needed.
In response to a comment of mine, someone told me that "Only a complete sap believes in diversity". This was my response.
Where did I mention anything about belief in diversity? Anway, in my days, and it may have changed now of course, but recognising diversity didn't mean surrendering to a skewed vision of the world and in place in the world, I wasn't around for the multi-cultural thing, we didn't get it here, and I don't think we will.
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Don't Just Throw Money At It
Just like the awful management of British industry in the 20th century, the answer to every conceivable problem to do with the present financial crisis is to throw large wads of cash at it. However, this time it's worse, because it's serious amounts cash that has to be borrowed, and then paid back.
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Fair Market Guesswork
If you work in the financial business, then you should know what Fair Market Value really means, and more importantly, what it does not mean.
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Comment is free, facts are sacred, libel is fine!
The following exchange of "opinions" took place on The Guardian´s Comment is Free online forum. My original complaint was focused on the comparison of Gaza with Stalingrad, and the implication that the Hamas organisation was somehow a Palestinian version of the Red Guard and the brave defenders of Stalingrad. I'm not sure that the person accusing me of being Hamas friendly - a charge that I absolutely deny, not least because I consider Hamas to be horrible at best - has even read my views on the
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WIth friends like these, who needs enemies?
On Sunday the 7th of September 2008, the online Comment is Free section of the Guardian featured an article by Denis MacShane, that basically argued that if "trade union leaders indulge in destructive rhetoric, they will only have themselves to blame if Labour loses the next election". The title of the article was "With comrades like these".
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The Banking Brain Drain
I would have thought that some banks would be only to glad to get shot of the holders of the "intellectual capital" that have provided the "knowledge" driving and supporting the strategies and actions that lead to such a royally screwed up economy. .... Phew!
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Self Adaptive Hokey
If the evolving human race had truly needed to rely on complete autonomy we would have died out as an evolving species many millions of years ago. We are all part of one big self-adpative system. True rugged individualism, with no dependence on anyone or anything else, is as hokey and as irrelevant as the old cowboy myths.
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The US will not engage in Durban II conference
Is Russia attending, is China attending? This would be one of the conferences that I would attend. I don’t know why some countries are so averse to a bit of bar room discourse with some of these racists and opportunists. The USA, Israel and EU should attend, and address the issues head-on, and if necessary kick-up an almighty debate over the selective discrimination and the political games. If Spain drops out I will writing a letter of protest to my President.
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Postmodernism in Politics
In an essay entitled “Richard Rorty and the Postmodern Rejection of Absolute Truth” Dean Geuras, Professor of Philosophy at the Southwest Texas State University wrote:
There is much that both Christians and non Christians can learn and apply from the dead-ended emptiness of postmodernism. More here!