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Eddukation cutz The teaching unions like to pontificate about budget cuts, racism, sexism and Fair Trade but are often oddly quiescent on less glamorous things that might actually help their members and schoolchidren, like class discipline or  stories like this … Continue reading →

Boors and bears This kind of boorish and stupid stunt gives “rightwingers” a bad name. It is understandable that one would want to annoy Greens, but this goes much too far. Too many self-described conservatives appear actually to dislike or fear … Continue reading →

Hakluyt – English epic My latest article now on line at Manner of Man Magazine. It’s about the fantastic and now too little read Elizabethan classic Hakluyt’s Voyages. This article also appeared in the Spring 2011 issue of the QR … Continue reading →

Hari kari In yesterday’s Independent, prize winning journalist Johann Hari admitted that he had inserted earlier texts into ‘interviews’ without indicating their origin (“My journalism is at the centre of a storm. This is what I have learned”, Wednesday 29 … Continue reading →

The Columbine Pilgrim – Andy Nowicki’s new novel Here’s my review of Andy Nowicki’s excellent new novel, which is in the July issue of the New English Review http://www.newenglishreview.org/custpage.cfm/frm/91749/sec_id/91749 Derek Turner 30 June 2011 Free Google Ad cialis drugs no … Continue reading →

The Human Rights Act – the gift that keeps on giving Good old Tony Blair, who incorporated the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law with the 1998 Human Rights Act – although he modestly declined to take any … Continue reading →

Sycophancy in Soweto Amusing how supposedly hard-bitten journalists go all weak at the knees and pre-pubescent girlish whenever any of the following magical spells are uttered –  Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13872735 Yesterday on the ITV news the … Continue reading →

When free trade fails to deliver This is my latest article, this one in The University Bookman, Russell Kirk”s journal. http://www.kirkcenter.org/index.php/bookman/article/when-free-trade-is-not-fair-exchange/ My view on free trade has always been that it is a good thing between countries on comparable socio-economic … Continue reading →

G4S and the vexatious vacationers The BBC has been excited today by a report that “more than 700 complaints” were made by illegal immigrants against G4S, a company which polices immigration removal centres. Shock, horror, UN resolution, send in the … Continue reading →

The truth about US “isolationism” This is a letter QR American editor Matk G. Brennan  sent to the New York Times today June 15, 2011 Dear Mr. Zeleny: I am writing in reference to your (mis)use of the word “isolationism” … Continue reading →