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      • The real peril, and a solution
        06/23/06
        In thw West we vote for A or B, where A=B which makes us cynical, and the very poor – mostly in spirit – are given shelter to keep them off the rich streets.
        Elsewhere the rich-poor gap widens and the marginalised fall off the edge.

        Both societies see the central bureaucracy as corru

      • Who rules?
        06/16/06
        So Thatcher was right in saying we need to stand on our own feet, and wrong in thinking we could do it. We need civil service feet to stand on.

        Gilligan, luckless co-accused killer of Kelly, the BBC, and the Blair government’s reputation, has a walking, talking memorial in his look-alike

      • Love thy macrocosm
        06/16/06
        The irony of sex is that shortly after psychiatry allowed us to understand why we have sexual fantasies, our multisexual nature is now driving us into a wilderness of camps.

        Until we realise the full functions of sex in our bisexual species – among them gene mixing for upward evolution, g

      • Materials rule
        06/15/06
        Found a good school subject for the disaffected recently: Resistive materials in design and technology. A doing thing with woods, metal, plastics with lots of useful handskills. A school subject always under pressure because workshops are expensive, technicians and teachers more so, but not needing

      • Towards a Centre for Change
        06/14/06
        A fellow traveller, intellectual gypsy (three careers so far) and visionary is looking to start a mini-exploratory.
        As he puts it, a centre for change where all are welcome. To use culture, cultural differences and all the arts to look for social justice and political equity. Café society witho

      • What blocks change?
        06/14/06
        In evolution, no variety
        In healthy bodies, the immune system
        In illness, damaged immune systems
        In bipolar disorder, positive feedback (moves the system away from the norm)
        In families, rankling insult
        In organisations, over-powerful groupings
        In software, ..
        In e

      • The adopt a school move
        06/13/06
        Nice to see it happening here in UK at a million pounds a throw, and in Africa at somewhat less.
        When the benefits in house get seen it will spread fast and probably fully. Good thrives on good. Increased confidence by the adopter, higher moral ground for the board and company adopting, freedom

      • Chemicals, evolution, and community
        06/12/06
        The analogy is too striking to be ignored: chemicals evolved into cells and mammals because the molecules follow simple rules of physics.
        People too have basic rules, see Maslow’s triangle base. Unfilled, we die out. We have higher ones too, the beliefs and targets.
        Communities too have ru

      • A chat class with wellie
        06/08/06
        Family trust www.jrct.org.uk recently funded visionary-workers in the first six of the fields below, with a discussion site for all to keep in touch. All are worthwhile issues, all contributed by caring and industrious people. I’m finding it hard to keep up. An interesting and maybe strong community

      • Some issues to bat around - where to start?
        06/08/06
        Patronage – effect on hacks
        Schools for masters, upsides and downsides
        Who shall teach?
        The rise of charity, pace Margaret Thatcher
        Manipulation of prole by party
        The legacies of Bush and Blair
        What changes does society need?
        Successful schools do ..

      • Return of the wild – a science fiction prediction
        06/05/06
        Home office incompetence, the dampening effect of PC on policing, and cynicism about our leaders are just three of the furies leading us to take vigilante justice. Oklahoma, sarin and the Twin Towers were part of the overture. Auto Theft, Hitman, and the future game Judge are instruction manuals for

      • When to teach issues
        06/04/06
        When to teach issues is a problem for parents and schools.
        The danger is life-long expectancy of danger fear and confusion, all the stuff of nightmares.

        The difficulty is the fears triggered by half-knowledge of their existence without knowing that solutions can be found. Many adult

      • Must read Gibbon for background to our problems
        06/03/06
        Must read Gibbon for background to our problems. Suspect old Eton and the Ivy preps are to breed toughness, overcome the softening of affluence. Now that all have affluence, we are combining, spoiling, parent anxiety, child dominance and total lack of correction, DDSS(drink, drugs, smoking, sex), en

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