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Polly Toynbee: This frenzy of hatred is a disaster for children at riskThe banality of evil makes revenge unsatisfactory. Once caught, the monster that pulled the fingernails from the baby or the serial strangler of women always turns out to be an unworthy vessel for society's fury: just another psychotic lowlife, weirdo, child of violence, passing on the damage don... |
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Peter Preston: Tabloids must be free to offendOn Monday 4 May 1896, Alfred Harmsworth published his first Daily Mail. Now see how what goes around comes around. Harmsworth's triumph was inventing a paper that appealed to a totally new, young audience - 'by office boys, for office boys' sniffed Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. It wasn't elitist... |
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OK, another rant from me about stupid peopleAs many of you know, animal cruelty and abuse is another one of my pet peeves. And here is one that truly angered me. I love all of my pets and would never think of hurting an animal, my pet or not. It truly amazes me how inhumane people have become or are being taught to be. I was taught to ... |
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Guardian Daily podcast: World leaders meet for economic summit and city academies accept fewer poorer childrenIn 1944, world leaders met at Bretton Woods in New Hampshire and agreed on a framework of global financial institutions that underpinned economic stability for 25 years. This weekend G20 leaders are meeting to discuss the current economic crisis, in what's been billed as Bretton Woods 2. Economic... |
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Magical realms and children's booksMaking the Unbelievable, Believable: Magical and Fictional Worlds in Visual Art. On the nature of fiction and belief, and how it is the often almost imperceptible details that help us make the leap that lodges a fictional space in our minds. 'In the Victoria and Albert Museum there is a medieval ... |
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Links for 2008-11-11 [del.icio.us]Interview @MarsPhoenix - Universe "For over a year, Veronica McGregor has been Twittering from Mars." http://twitter.com/MarsPhoenix First Look at Blue Spruce, IBM's Next Generation Browser Platform - ReadWriteWeb "The grand plan for IBM, we think, is that it wants the browser... |
