‘We have a belief in being dressed modestly, and we want our kids to see women dressed modestly.’… Read the rest
Andrew Murray Pitches a Fit at Nick Cohen
Feb 1st, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonChair of Stoppers is very cross indeed.… Read the rest
Russell Jacoby on the Seminar That Failed
Feb 1st, 2007 | Filed by Ophelia BensonThe humanities are eroding everywhere thanks to: not lefty academics but market forces.… Read the rest
Goldenbridge II
Feb 1st, 2007 | By Marie-Therese O'Loughlin“The Children Act allowed destitute children to be sent to industrial schools, even if they hadn’t committed a crime.” Paddy Doyle.
Incarceration
This “destitution” lark was a ruse used by the judiciary and the religious in order to obtain convictions. I was, for example, in a feeder institution, known as The Regina Ceoli, Mother and Baby unit for over four and a half years. So how could I have been even considered “destitute” by the judiciary? “Destitution”, this terminology, was in my estimation “illegally used” on my committal order to Goldenbridge Industrial School – where I was incarcerated until I was sixteen years old. There was no limit on my stay in the “hostel”.
It is imperative for people to … Read the rest
The psychology of such accommodations
Feb 1st, 2007 10:32 am | By Ophelia BensonJonathan Derbyshire’s interview with Nick Cohen is very good.
… Read the rest‘I realised that people on the left who had once supported Iraqi socialists were going to dump them. That’s when the iron entered the soul. That’s when I thought something is going very badly wrong and that I need to write about it.’Instead of supporting socialists and trade unionists in Iraq once Saddam had been overthrown, some on the left went so far as to romanticise the insurgency launched by Baathist irregulars and radical Islamists, declaring it to be a movement of ‘national liberation’…‘To say it’s left-wing to turn your back on Kurdish and Iraqi socialists is to throw the best traditions of left solidarity out of the window. What kind
Metaphysical naturalism
Feb 1st, 2007 10:29 am | By Ophelia BensonMark Vernon takes issue with Anthony Grayling on the question of the latter’s challenge to Madeleine Bunting ‘to name one – even one small – contribution to science made by Christianity in its two thousand years’.
After all, there are a number of essentially theological ideas that underpin modern science, such as the notion that the universe is coherent, intelligible and so on.
But are those ideas essentially theological? Are they theological at all? (Does ‘essentially’ there mean – necessarily, or of its essence, or something like ‘perhaps not obviously but down deep beyond appearances’? It could be just a no true Scotsman move.)
I don’t think the ‘notion’ that the universe is coherent, intelligible and so on is an … Read the rest