Comment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
Considering that the murder rate in the USA is so much higher, by a staggering amount than in the UK and most of those murders are committed with guns, mostly pistols at that, I think there may be some...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
They may have been breaking laws. But if guns weren’t such an integral part of our society, who knows what would have happened.
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Chazz
I am pretty sure that Brits wouldn’t show the same restraint, which is a good reason not to have them.
View ArticleComment on The dangerously narrow outlook of the Browne Review by...
[...] Is Grass, meanwhile, notes “if we want to play this game of instrumentalising learning for employment” humanities [...]
View ArticleComment on The dangerously narrow outlook of the Browne Review by fleshisgrass
Yep, employability is one of the central concerns at our place now. That and more feedback, a perennial student request.
View ArticleComment on Fairness by Roll Around The Blogs And News. « ModernityBlog
[...] out, Flesh is Grass is espousing Fairness with an eye on the comprehensive spending [...]
View ArticleComment on Fairness by Bob
I think it is gaping failure of New Labour that they didn’t manage to articulate any sense of “fairness” in all their talk of “equity”, and a tragedy that the Con/Dems have hijacked even that word…...
View ArticleComment on Fairness by papanomicron
Flesh I know you aren’t the Grauniad’s biggest fan but JF is one of the saner people so thought you might be interested in this,...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Anonymous
look at the swiss every family has assault rifles and pistols, yet there have been no school massacres, and the firearm crime rate is incredibly low. they pratically let young children carry their...
View ArticleComment on I am not antisemitic because I don’t feel antisemitic by Rebecca
I took at look at the blog posting that Modernity was quoting from (from Sizer’s blog) – I hope to find enough time to fisk the theological reasoning he gives to prove (in his own eyes) that he’s not...
View ArticleComment on I am not antisemitic because I don’t feel antisemitic by What...
[...] Is Grass has a lovely post, I am not antisemitic because I don’t feel antisemitic and she reminds us of the MacPherson report’s [...]
View ArticleComment on I am not antisemitic because I don’t feel antisemitic by...
Rebecca, Seismic Shock is the best one to discuss Sizer’s theological underpinning with, http://seismicshock.wordpress.com/
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Alex
In UK a murder is only recorded as such if it is proven and they are convicted, even then it only accounts for one murder even though there may of been several. In UK there is a higher missing peoples...
View ArticleComment on US and UK murder – rate and weapon by Alex
Oh yeah, US would do very well to invest in CCTV, bann firearms and eventually take the firearms away from the police / take note of how the British police operate, too often I see footage of America...
View ArticleComment on They hurt by Matt P
You’ve become the person who knows quite a bit and cares quite a bit, and that’s a combination people will always appreciate. The problem is there’s a very thin line between “appreciate” and “exploit”.
View ArticleComment on Big society versus the coalition government by Useless New Labour,...
[...] Update 5: Flesh is Glass’s musings on the Big Society are worth a ponder. [...]
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Comment on A radical earner by Sarah AB
– maybe, just maybe, academics might starting taking note of who is standing for the UCU NEC – I have, incidentally, heard some students (and I assume they aren’t keen on the cuts) articulate their...
View ArticleComment on A radical earner by fleshisgrass
You’re right, time to start taking notice of the NEC…
View ArticleComment on Browne Review fallout by Papanomicron
excellent post Flesh. As for the violence I think some of the comments on the Bad Concious piece were well thought out even if the post belongs in Pseuds Corner. If your freedoms and liberties have...
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