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According to Amazon, the battle over e-book prices is really a war against the unfair profits of big publishing houses, which are ripping off both writers and the reading public by claiming a disproportionate share of the proceeds. E-books, unlike physical books, have no printing costs, no transport, no warehousing, no pulping: yet publishers still …
Please read into the following official statement what you like: The Moslem Council of Britain Conference report on the scandal in Rotherham states: “The key point that we come back to is that looking at race and ethnicity and culture is a red herring. What we need to look at are the causes, the context, …
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The difference between the Britain of half a century ago and today is that general belief in the moral and social responsibility (then called “respectability”) of ordinary people in the street was axiomatic and almost invariably justified. When, at the age of seven in the late 1950s, I started to walk the mile or so …
Firing teachers, competition, online learning, the introduction of technology, yet another type of test – none of these are working. They are products of the business school mentality. What is necessary is human contact and encouragement. All the American programs that have been successful in teaching children the love of learning, and which have reduced …
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“Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain” John Locke. John Locke was a philosopher, a distinguished member of my old college. I used to sit opposite his portrait in hall every morning at breakfast, but never dreamt I would being quoting him about child-rearing in 2014. Someone recently …
