https://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/people-politics-and-the-state-of-britain/ Consumer issues, recipes and apolitical thoughts from a Brighton native. Sun, 09 Mar 2014 18:05:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/people-politics-and-the-state-of-britain/#comment-2275 Sun, 09 Mar 2014 18:05:18 +0000 http://www.jonsilver.me.uk/jonsblog/?p=221#comment-2275 […] also People, Politics & the State of Britain, which I wrote shortly before the General […]

]]> https://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/people-politics-and-the-state-of-britain/#comment-472 Sat, 01 May 2010 12:55:17 +0000 http://www.jonsilver.me.uk/jonsblog/?p=221#comment-472 I think the British media are hugely implicated in this malaise. They know that fear and hate and scapegoating sells newspapers and they exploit that fact for all it’s worth. Having said that we need a free press and it’s regrettable that people are so loath to think for themselves and allow the papers and their dodgy proprietors to form their opinions for them.

]]> https://abrightonboyblogs.co.uk/people-politics-and-the-state-of-britain/#comment-471 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 06:37:56 +0000 http://www.jonsilver.me.uk/jonsblog/?p=221#comment-471 Just to clarify, I’m not meaning to imply that ADHD or ADD don’t exist as conditions, rather that they’ve given bad teachers and failing schools a scapegoat reason to consign some children to the scrapheap.

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