Hello Friday!
This is the week when the Tory and Republican Parties went a little bit mad and the Daily Mail was disgusting or more disgusting than usual! To smear a dead man in order to get at his son. Just wrong. Also to say that Ralph Milliband, ‘hated Britain’ because he disagreed with the Establishment is just silly. I don’t believe that the Queen should be Head of State, that doesn’t mean I don’t love my country. To quote G.K. Chesterton “My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, “My mother, drunk or sober.”
I’m not going to link to the article but have linked to some of the comment. Finally, there has also been a lot said about freedom of the Press and that’s a much hashed over subject in the UK, so I’m just going to add this; with privilege and power comes responsibility. If you can’t behave responsibility you don’t get privilege. The Daily Mail really needs to reflect on that, as do the people that buy the paper.
Anyway this week’s links…
1) I don’t understand the opposition to Obamacare, I don’t actually think it goes far enough and I don’t understand how a country that claims to lead the world doesn’t provide it’s citizens with healthcare. This is why. (also this and here Ms is talking about it for PwC)
2) If the shutdown was happening somewhere outside of the US and how the Americans would report it.
3) John Green on Drake and Benjamin Franklin.
4) Things are not getting better in Liverpool.
5) I knew I wasn’t alone. Pumpkin Spice Is Not Actually What Pumpkin Tastes Like.
6) Michael Rosen to Michael Gove on education reforms.
7) Mark Steele on the Help to Buy Scheme and it’s total irrelevance to the housing problem.
Nic Dempsey 