To The Observer One reason so many eastern European workers came to Britain – famously, Polish builders – was that however bad the old communist states were, at least they had good technical education systems. In the UK we have governments dominated by people who went to schools where the academic route was taken for …
“I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.” (Montaigne)
Kefalonia We came, we saw, we sunbathed Odysseus, who came from Ithaca, just next door, Found Kefalonia a bore. No dragons, no beasties, no Charybdis or Scyllas, Just a load of young Brits drinking beer in their villas. From the earliest moment when he was a boy, He wanted adventures, like leveling Troy. But although …
Bloomberg reports this comment from Germany’s deputy foreign minister: “The U.K. government consists mostly of clueless boarding-school graduates. “Brexit is a big shitshow, I say that now very undiplomatically,” Michael Roth said at an event of his Social Democratic Party in Berlin on Saturday. He accused “90 percent” of the British cabinet of having “no …
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“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits”. Albert Einstein
