Harriet Harman The Liar & Evader Of Responsibility

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Harriet Harman The Liar & Evader Of Responsibility Just 24 hours after being elected deputy leader of the UK Labour Party, Harriet Harman was accused of making a ‘u-turn’ on her views about the Iraq war. Appearing on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme yesterday, Harman, who was elected deputy leader at the weekend, denied ever saying that the government should apologise for Iraq. In truth, during a Newsnight debate on BBC 2 a couple of weeks ago, she did clearly say ‘I agree’ when Jon Cruddas, her rival in the deputy leadership contest, argued that Labour should ‘say sorry’ for the war. Nathalie Rothschld

However, the u-turn is the least shocking thing about Harman’s stance on Iraq. While everyone is busy attacking the new deputy leader for backtracking on the ‘apology question’, the real scandal is being overlooked: namely, Harman’s duplicity and political cowardice in claiming that she was duped into voting for the bombing of Iraq in the first place.

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Horrible Harriet Harman

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Horrible Harriet Harman Harriet Harman's record shows that she has repeatedly, in her political career, taken extreme, authoritarian stands on family policy and areas concerning women's rights. Quentin Letts

She has repeatedly shown a belief in official power over individual choice and discretion. She is an imposer, a strident embracer of orthodoxy. All this, furthermore, goes unleavened by any suggestion of humour or humility.

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The Educational Dumbing Down Continues

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The Educational Dumbing Down Continues State secondary schools are being told to ditch lessons in academic subjects and replace them with month-long projects on themes such as global warming.

Stuart Billington, head of physics at a large comprehensive, said: “I would never allow my own children to sit in my own classroom and be taught such a shambles masquerading as ‘science’ . . . You can imagine how I feel delivering it to 100 other people’s children every week.”

The idea, of course, is to deliver indoctrination rather than education. That's what left-wing governments are mostly about these days.

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Global Warming Nonsense?

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Global Warming Nonsense? More and more of the most distinguished names in climate science around the world are saying that Global Warming theory is total junk — and who, moreover, have given devastating evidence of the way the global warmers have falsified the evidence to create an entirely spurious, anti-scientific and deeply dishonest panic. Melanie Phillips

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White Boys Let Down

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White Boys Let Down White boys are being turned into an unemployable underclass - as they fall behind children from other racial groups at school, new research shows.

Goodness. Someone has, at last, noticed!

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Dumbing Down Physics Teaching - To Help Girls

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Dumbing Down Physics Teaching - To Help Girls

I am a physics teacher. Or, at least I used to be. My subject is still called physics. My pupils will sit an exam and earn a GCSE in physics, but that exam doesn’t cover anything I recognize as physics. Over the past year the UK Department for Education and the AQA board changed the subject. They took the physics out of physics and replaced it with… something else, something nebulous and ill defined. I worry about this change. I worry about my pupils, I worry about the state of science education in this country, and I worry about the future physics teachers — if there will be any.



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Parents (i.e. Fathers) To Be Shamed

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Parents (i.e. Fathers) To Be Shamed Absent parents who refuse to pay maintenance for their children could be named and shamed under plans to reform the Child Support Agency (CSA).

Measues include:
Imposing a curfew
Removing passports
Allowing C-MEC to take money out of bank accounts
Using latest available tax information
Charging absent parents for the costs of tracking them down
Information sharing with credit reference agencies
Naming and shaming

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Blair's Seven New Laws a Day

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Blair's Seven New Laws a Day More than seven new laws have come into force every day since Tony Blair came to power a decade ago.

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iPods Among MP's Perks

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iPods Among MP's Perks Members of parliament are using their taxpayer-funded expense accounts to buy iPods, plasma screen televisions and even, in one case, a fish tank, insiders have alleged.

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