Franco-Phobia
Francophobia is the American media's latest pastime. France, the experts inform us truculently, is the Western world's "cheese-eating surrender monkey" and a nation of anti-Semites desperately trying to assert their long lost power by pushing their agenda on the world stage. Hearing all the opprobrium heaped upon the Gauls, you'd think they had publicly announced their support for Al-Qaida, or fired a missile at the White House. But no, France's only crime is that, oh horror, they objected to the war in Iraq...
Comment: Franco-Phobia
Francophobia is the American media's latest pastime. France, the experts inform us truculently, is the Western world's "cheese-eating surrender monkey" and a nation of anti-Semites desperately trying to assert their long lost power by pushing their agenda on the world stage. Hearing all the opprobrium heaped upon the Gauls, you'd think they had publicly announced their support for Al-Qaida, or fired a missile at the White House. But no, France's only crime is that, oh horror, they objected to the war in Iraq...
Comment: Confederacy of dunces
We assemble around 10am, on the steps of the State Capitol. A friend of ours from work, a twenty-two year old latter-day Communist of some kind, well read with a Political Science degree, has urged us to accompany him. The debate over whether Georgia's state flag should incorporate the old Confederate battle standard is no trivial matter, he tells us. The 'rebel' flag was adopted in the 1950s as a symbol of defiance against the attempt to integrate Georgia's school system. We should not be taken in by the rhetoric of those calling for the re-instating of the old flag for reasons of 'heritage', we are told. This is a debate about racism through and through....
Comment: Confederacy of dunces
We assemble around 10am, on the steps of the State Capitol. A friend of ours from work, a twenty-two year old latter-day Communist of some kind, well read with a Political Science degree, has urged us to accompany him. The debate over whether Georgia's state flag should incorporate the old Confederate battle standard is no trivial matter, he tells us. The 'rebel' flag was adopted in the 1950s as a symbol of defiance against the attempt to integrate Georgia's school system. We should not be taken in by the rhetoric of those calling for the re-instating of the old flag for reasons of 'heritage', we are told. This is a debate about racism through and through....
Comment: Confederacy of dunces
We assemble around 10am, on the steps of the State Capitol. A friend of ours from work, a twenty-two year old latter-day Communist of some kind, well read with a Political Science degree, has urged us to accompany him. The debate over whether Georgia's state flag should incorporate the old Confederate battle standard is no trivial matter, he tells us. The 'rebel' flag was adopted in the 1950s as a symbol of defiance against the attempt to integrate Georgia's school system. We should not be taken in by the rhetoric of those calling for the re-instating of the old flag for reasons of 'heritage', we are told. This is a debate about racism through and through....
Comment: Don on our side
The government wants to know what we think of top up fees. We have until next week - the end of the consultation period on its White Paper on the future of higher education - to tell them. They will get a strikingly similar answer from almost - though not quite - everyone.
