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I am an American, and even though I have travelled extensively in Britain and so should understand a little of your lingo, I am perplexed by Justin Webb's writings in his blogs. I miss Alastair Cooke, but I guess I'm an old traditionalist. What do you have for old Anglos?
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Question time - Should a change of leader of a political party in government automatically trigger a general election?
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As a Widower living on my own with nobody to converse with , BBC Radio 4
has become a companion which coupled up to a clock timer wakes me every morning and I enjoy a lazy drowsy hour
of friendly voices , and stimulation of interest in British Life. While IPM gives me the opportunity to express my views on
many subjects. Which Letters to the
Editor are rarely published. I am not
sure if my views are ever noticed by
people with the power to act on them.
My attention this morning was drawn to
a official view point that residential homes were better than Fostering , with a offside mention that at School
attention is drawn by different people
collecting the child. Which results in
them being bullied or outcast. To my
mind would it be better to nominate
one person to always to seem to be the
parent ? Which brings me on to my
pet subject. Gay Fostering which I am
sure will give a loving and caring home to a boy or girl ; but is it not selfish
for them to realise the effect at School
when it becomes known as it will they
have 2 Fathers or 2 Mothers ? That
some of the normal children's activities
such as sleep overs , holidays together
become taboo with other unlightened
parents. As a half Jew in the 1940's
I was excused morning assembly ; but
had to come in after the service. It made me a object of envy and malice.
bullied and chased home every day my
life was hell. I have sent letters on this
view point ;but no National or Local
Paper dare tackle it .
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why isn't more done to celebrate the role single dads make to the lives of their kids. Sites like www.dadcando.com are brilliant and deserve a much wider audience. I am a single dad of two and just want the best relationship with my two that I possibly can.
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I would like to here more about the recent case of Klaus Matzka, the Austrian tourist who was forced to wipe his holiday snaps of London by the police. It seems to me it neatly ties in to stories about surveillance cameras being apparently everywhere, google photographing the world and the police being held to account by digital cameras.
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Subject: Celebrity with honor
The Media (Accidently?)
Missed this one!!!!
Don't know whether you heard about this
but Denzel Washington and his family visited
the troops at Brook Army Medical Center , in
San Antonio , Texas (BAMC) the other day. This
is where soldiers who have been evacuated from
Germany come to be hospitalized in the United
States, especially burn victims There are some
buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher
House is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay,
for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying
on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled
most of the time.
While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave
him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how much one of them would cost to build.
He took his cheque book out and wrote a cheque for the full amount right there
on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear this story and want to get the word out to the
American public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.
The question is why do:
Britney Spears
Madonna
Tom Cruise and
other Hollywood fluff
make front page news with their ridiculous antics and Denzel Washington's charity
doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of any newspaper except the local newspaper in San Antonio.
This needs wide distribution
. Share it!
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I wanted to respond to the item on protests on Saturday's programme. I tried to post this on Saturday, but it didn't make it.
Two separate things:
1. The real issue that the protests were about has been displaced by discussion of the actions of the police.
2. Both of the 'pro-police' contributors were speaking in generalisations which did not apply to the G20 protests on 1 April (which I was also at).
1 - Eddie mentioned this in passing on the programme. While it's harder to say this about the Bank of England G20 demo, as the reasons for people being there were varied. But the Climate Camp that happened at Bishopsgate that day, the location very carefully chosen as it's where the 'Carbon Exchange' is based - an institution that is part of an attempt to turn CO2 reduction into a market - an approach that has been widely shown to be ridiculous and counter-productive. The Climate Camp's 'agenda' is a very clear one, which is proving to be extremely intelligently developed by careful discussion and debate - open to anyone, with decisions reached by consensus (that whole process is worthy of an article on iPM - it's fascinating). Both last summer at Kingsnorth and on 1 April, the actions of the police - which in both cases were absolutely unnecessarily provocative, in a way which could only have come from those in charge, not just loose cannons on the front line - served to make the confrontation the news, rather than the subject of the protest. Now this is all part of the issue you covered (with beautiful musical accompaniment ;-) about protests having to be either outrageous or violent to get coverage - simple numbers and strength of argument are no longer sufficient.
I participated in the protests when I'd really rather be spending my time on many other more interesting things, because I believe the issue of environmental destruction is the most important thing that faces us now - and that mainstream politics is either ignorantly or deliberately ignoring the fundamental causes. I now find myself feeling disgusted at the rottenness that seems widespread within the police, and feeling that I have no option but to fight this too.
2. Your last speaker talked about the police having to react against what is in front of them, on the 'front line'. I was among a group of people of whom ALL were peaceful, though frustrated. The line of police near us suddenly started barging us for no apparent reason. The police had spotters on the rooftops. They could easily have had people within the crowds as well - undercover or not - if so, it would have been very clear that more than 99% of people there were utterly peaceful.
It's also widely known that the police have been infiltrating the groups of protesters beforehand. If this is true, they must have seen that the protests planned (certainly as far as I'm aware of) were completely peaceful. Civil disobedience, perhaps - like blocking Bishopsgate, and stringing up banners from lamp posts - but no 'eco-terrorism' (which NECTU were briefing the media about earlier this year).
To try and look at all this in a more constructive way, one thing I have observed in talking to police and protestors, is that they are largely (a generalisation I know) of very different outlooks, with sometimes grotesque predjudices about the other. I would love to see some open and free discussion happen between members of the police (all levels) and the 'protestors' so they can understand what drives us. If we can't talk to each other then, frankly, I despair at the future of our society.
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Pity the students. They leave university lumbered with debts; return to live with their parents for several years; searching for a job in a deflating economy; paying higher taxes to cover the unrestrained goverment borrowing; being unable to secure a mortgage.
They will wonder, if they have and afford children, what kind of World will be left for them in thr 22nd centuary when the politicians bicker about how much they will try to reduce the rate at which we continue to polute the World.
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SATs Tests, et al
There has been a flurry of news items recently about the (SAT) Standard Assessment Test, and a SAT test (used by newsreaders on radio) is a Standard Assessment Test Test.
Similarly, a PIN is a Personal Identification Number, and a 'PIN number' used on radio means a Personal Identification Number Number.
Many years ago, "New Scientist" magazine ran a series of articles in their back-pages about this phenomemon which they called with tongue in cheek, the "SLS" Syndrome. Well obviously, the SLS stands for 'Superfluous Letter Syndrome.' But with their usual panache, the SLS Syndrome translates as "Superfluous Letter Syndrome Syndrome."
Anybody have any niggling updates?
Bazzab
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