Paddick’s diary
Now, Brian Paddick’s hilarious diary for the London mayoral elections are available online. What a man! ”Last summer I retired from the Met after a 30-year career in the police. As a card-carrying Liberal Democrat, within months I was encouraged to throw my hat into the ring to become the party’s candidate for London Mayor. […]
Cherie’s confession
Bought Cherie Blairs autobiography today. Have to help the poor thing out, now that she doesn’t have a solid income. (Apparently she’s worried about that…) Six hourses are expensive to keep running. In the book, she gives her true opinion about Brown, with whom she’s never had a good relation. Many other excitments are to […]
Help out!
They now believe that over 50 000 people have lost their lives or are missing after the earthquake in China. Chinese officials now admit that the finding someone still alive would be ”miracle.” Meanwhile, Chinese bloggers cook up conspiracies about the earthquake. To save lives, rescue must be rapid with sufficient funds. So please lend […]
Can Israel survive for another 60 years?
”It’s somehow absurd and trivial to use the word Israel and the expression 60th birthday in the same sentence or the same breath. (What is this, some candle-bedecked ceremony in Miami?) The questions before us are somewhat more antique, and also a little more pressingly and urgently modern, than that. Has Zionism made Jews more […]
Dumheter.
Inte undra på att facket tappar medlemmar. Jag skulle inte vilja vara del av en sådan organisation.
My May 68
Whenever we talk about May 1968, we tend to talk about it as a single event, rather than a longer ”revolutionary” process or movement. That is at least how Alain Geismar likes to look at it, he told us during a talk last night. It really was a ten year process, started by the end […]
Blöt jord och yrvakna fåglar
Klockan är nästan sex i England. Insåg inte det var så sent, eller tidigt. Försvann bort i mina egna växelkursberäkningar inatt. Tiden springer ifrån en om man inte kämpar för att hinna ifatt. Gick precis en kort promenad, för att lämna in ett arbete och få lite frisk luft innan jag lägger mig. Det regnar […]
Kan studenter förändra världen?
Ska strax bege mig för att lyssna på Alain Geismar, ledaren av studentrevolterna i Paris, maj 1968. Han ska prata om revolterna, hur han upplevde tiden i Paris och om studenter kan förändra världen. Låt oss hålla tummarna. Ska bli grymt intressant. För några dagar sedan fick DN en intervju med honom. Artikeln är ganska intressant. […]
Greed + selfishness = best recipe to cure naivety
There are some things that make me truly angry. People being greedy is one of them. Greed in itself is not necessarily wrong, it can even be something to strive for in certain situations, but when you’re being greedy at someone’s expense, it’s not alright. Many would call me naive; perhaps less so today than […]
Dags att (fortfarande) stärka lärarnas status
Den låga statusen i läraryrket har länge varit ett problem i Sverige. Färre och färre väljer att söka till lärarhögskolorna runt om i landet, vilket resulterar i lärarbrist och högre andel obehöriga och okvalifiserade lärare. Detta har varit ett återkommande tema länge. Höjer vi blicken från vårt avlånga land, och istället tar oss en titt […]