Take Your Country Back From Brussels
From the desk of The Brussels Journal on Thu, 2011-01-06 15:08
A quote from Ian Buruma in The New Yorker, 10 January 2011:
Throughout Europe, a growing number of people, in some version of the Tea Party mantra, "want their country back" - from "Brussels," or from overeducated technocrats, or from immigrants. The alienation of the Belgians is, in this respect, a typically European story.
What to pull out when pulled over
Submitted by Capodistrias on Fri, 2011-01-21 14:41.
Some vintage Pavlik Morozov Memorabilia might buy the little bugger off, or maybe a well used OMON truncheon?
Funnily enough...(3)
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Fri, 2011-01-21 13:29.
PC Plods replaced by pc Woggles aka 'Tiny Earls' on the streets of Britain:
http://tinyurl.com/6la43nd
Shute -> Freire
Submitted by Capodistrias on Fri, 2011-01-21 05:31.
Atlanticist,
You cite what is entrenched and enshrined as revolutionary, cutting edge pedagogy on Kappert Isle. The little darlings have even figured out how to put wheels on the guillotine as they monitor the hallways and playgrounds.
Let's not forget what Comrade Paulo Freire wrote: "For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become conviced of their intrinsic inferiority." This is just as applicable to the adult oppressors in the classroom as it is to those local populations who think they deserve an education in their home countries.
Funnily enough...(2)
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Thu, 2011-01-20 12:04.
www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=342160
I don't remember this approach being adopted, nor do I believe it would have been particularly effective, if it had been incorporated into the plot of one of Shute's other excellent tales 'The Pied Piper.'
www.nevilshute.org/Reviews/piedpiper2.php
Funnily enough...
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Thu, 2011-01-20 11:14.
it was that newspaper article that got me thinking about Shute's novel voting proposals in the first place.
The Toddler Vote?
Submitted by Capodistrias on Thu, 2011-01-20 03:37.
Is there a chapter: 'We want a change!'?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1348564/British-mothers-toddlers-banned-council-funded-playgroup-immigrants.html
In The Wet
Submitted by Atlanticist911 on Thu, 2011-01-20 23:19.
I am implacably opposed to the EU and everything it purports to stand for. However, if we must be part of the damned thing, we could do worse than insist upon it adopting a voting system similar to the one described in Nevil Shute's excellent book 'In The Wet'. (A novel system in which everbody gets a basic vote with the opportunity to obtain up to seven votes in total). The family vote and the church vote sound particularly appealing to me.