The account in The Times of the murder by stabbing of Mary Maguire, a teacher in Leeds, quoted a recent report by the Office for Standards in Education (OFSTED) about the school in which it took place. ‘Students,’ said the report, ‘say they feel very safe in the school. It is clear they have a good understanding of how to … [Read on]
Travelling frequently as I do between England and France, I am always depressed almost to the point of despair when I see the English at the airport. Never in human history can so many people have been so determined to make the worst of themselves. Self-respect is unknown to them. Fat or thin, they dress in a more slovenly fashion … [Read on]
Henry Ford once said that you could have any colour car you liked so long as it was black. Among social liberals in America, you can have any opinion you like so long as it is theirs. The chief executive of the Mozilla Foundation, which owns the software company that designed Firefox, was forced to step down after only two … [Read on]
The belief that everyone can be persuaded by argument to behave well is, I suppose, a corollary of the notion that no man does wrong knowingly. The task of the moralist, then, is to get people to understand the true nature of their conduct, to educate them; and once this is done, the reprehensible conduct will cease by itself. This … [Read on]
Young people’s money woes are down to lack of education,’ said a headline to an article in the Observer of 30 March. Putting aside my dislike of the locution ‘down to,’ which strikes me, for reasons that I cannot quite explain, as extremely vulgar, it occurred to me that most young people’s money woes must surely be caused by a … [Read on]
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