"An Embarrassment to Democracy".

In March 2012, a group of 240 doctors, including 30 professors, wrote to the The Independent describing Tory NHS "reforms" as an "embarrassment to democracy" which had "no support from professional healthcare organisations."

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Tuition Fees are crushing the hope out of a generation

In the latest issue of "GREEN WORLD" there is an amazing article by David McQueen of the Green Party.

Its subtitle is :


"TUITION FEES ARE CRUSHING THE HOPE OUT OF A GENERATION."

WOW.
All the more WOW given the fact that it is really a very accurate assessment.

One of my fave details about this whole debate -  that is never spared to those who know my foam in person :) - is that JOHN MAJOR to his great credit REFUSED to introduce fees for Uni as this would preclude people from some backgrounds from fully entering into society. It took the Left Wing War Criminal BLAIR to truly destroy English society's post-war University culture.

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"The Silence of the Lambs".

English students are always angry about the situation as compared to Scotland.
They always say they want fees gone like in Scotland.
And yet the media portray it as a question of Scotland needing to "hurry up", "get into line" and "charge fees."

The Unreadable Splodge.

Continued discussion of the book "Reformation" by Dermott McCulloch. Which of course is not that bad really!

To return to a discussion of the "unreadable splodge" referred to elsewhere - there is extensive and over-wrought discussion of the significance of the word "Catholic" - a necessity in this topic.

Nowhere are the following two facts simply stated.

 i) It is a Greek word simply meaning "Universal."

ii) The word appears (effectively on its own) in the Nicene Creed of 325 AD.

Neither is it stated clearly that the term and concept "Reformation" come directly from the Catholic/Universalist tradition - "semper reformandum."

It hardly needs to be said that this book shows a degree of bias. Most pointedly with regard to events in Renaissance England.

It may be more helpful to talk of "Universalists" and "Dissenters"; as much as "Catholics" and "Protestants".

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2018.

I am now much more of a cultural Christian. If I have a sympathy for Catholicism it is merely out of a desire for unity and humanity, rather than any kind of dogma.