It's a thing we can't deny*
"nine million bicycles in Beijing"
has a certain ring to it;
"26 million out of work in China"
sounds a much bumpier ride.
*appropriate credits to Katie Melua
Monday, February 02, 2009
A Good Childhood Report?
On the BBC this morning: "The aggressive pursuit of personal success by adults is now the greatest threat to British children, a major independent report on childhood says".
This major independent report will be published this week by The Children' Society.
The full title of The Children's Society is The Church of England Children's Society.
Full details here.
Also interesting that "The Good Childhood" is a registered trademark of The Children's Society - sorry, The Church of England's Children's Society.
It will be interesting to see what is in the above report.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Gerald Kaufman MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
I did hear some mention of Gerald Kaufman's speach in Parliament the other day. He should have been quoted more widely.
"My grandmother was ill in bed when the Nazis came to her home town of Staszów. A German soldier shot her dead in her bed. Madam Deputy Speaker, my grandmother did not die to provide cover for Israeli soldiers murdering Palestinian grandmothers in Gaza. The present Israeli government ruthlessly and cynically exploit the continuing guilt among Gentiles over the slaughter of Jews in the Holocaust as justification for their murder of Palestinians. The implication is that Jewish lives are precious, but the lives of Palestinians do not count. On Sky News a few days ago, the spokeswoman for the Israeli Army Major Livovich was asked about the Israeli killing of, at that time, eight hundred Palestinians. The total is now a thousand. She replied instantly, "Five hundred of them were militants." That was the reply of a Nazi. I suppose the Jews fighting for their lives in the Warsaw Ghetto could have been dismissed as militants.
and
"Hamas is a deeply nasty organization, but it was democratically elected, and it is the only game in town.
and
"It's time for our government to make clear to the Israeli government that its conduct and policies are unacceptable and to impose a total arms ban on Israel. It is time for peace, but real peace, not the solution by conquest, which is the Israelis' real goal, but which is impossible for them to achieve. They're not simply war criminals; they're fools."
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