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Monthly Archives: October 2016
Don’t Collectivise the Schools
Any history student kbows all about the collectivisation of the kulaks in 1930s USSR, when independent peasant farmers, suspected of being closet capitalists, were forced to become part of collective farms. I have just listened to Alan Bennet argue for … Continue reading
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South Africa to Repeal Law of Gravity
Anyone thinking of going to South Africa should be warned that students there are campaigning to repeal the Law of Gravity. This means that any aircraft entering South African jurisdiction will no longer feel the force of Gravity. The picture … Continue reading
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Lets Decolonize Science!
Lets not actually. Some South African students take the view that because most scientific knowledge is a product of white western society, it should all be rejected and Africans should free themselves by reverting to a bongo-bongo culture where black … Continue reading
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No Cause Worth Fighting For
But if there is nothing worth fighting for, there is nothing worth living for. Free Syria.
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Street Conversion
Religious people who try and convert you on the street are a bit of a nuisance. Twenty something years ago I saw someone standing on a wooden box swinging his arms and screaming about Jesus. A couple of weeks ago … Continue reading
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How Could a Teacher Do This?
In India a teacher has just cut the head of a member of the untouchablle class using a communal granary, who he accused of making it unclean. Arent teachers meant to be liberal and enlightened? Why arent teachers in India … Continue reading
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Disappointed By Old Classmates
When I was at school, Pink Floyd was in the charts, number 1 -We Don’t Need No Education – Xmas 1980, Africa was being liberated and people everywhere were getting their rights. My friends and I had very revolutionary sympathies. … Continue reading
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