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Toby Young is a c0nt

Young: the protesters are "bullying" the CofE. Pardon the pun, but Jesus wept. :facepalm:

If the 200 protestors had an ounce of decency they'd spare the Church of England all this agonising by leaving of their own accord. After all, their fight isn't with the Church but with "capitalism" and it cannot have escaped their attention that the views of most senior Anglican clerics – possibly the majority – are almost identical to their own. Last June, for instance, Dr Rowan Williams launched a blistering attack on the government, accusing David Cameron and Nick Clegg of forcing through "radical policies for which no one voted" that had left the country gripped by "fear". In effect, the anti-capitalist protestors are punishing an institution which, by and large, is on the same side as them.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/t...p-bullying-the-church-of-england-and-go-home/
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Well, the sibilant one is correct, the Tories didn't win and therefore they have no mandate to push through their barking mad policies.
 
nino_savatte said:
Young: the protesters are "bullying" the CofE. Pardon the pun, but Jesus wept. :facepalm:

Well, the sibilant one is correct, the Tories didn't win and therefore they have no mandate to push through their barking mad policies.
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Why are you so bothered about what Toby Young says? Normal people don't even know who he is.
 
_angel_ said:
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It isn't normal to spend all this time telling the world your opinions on everything. It's okay for people like us, with nothing better to do and who probably used to do it pre-internet anyway, but it isn't normal behaviour.

It's the madness of the internet age. Just at the moment of the human race's greatest triumph* insanity seized the stage.

* Strictly Come Dancing.
 
LLETSA said:
It isn't normal to spend all this time telling the world your opinions on everything. It's okay for people like us, with nothing better to do and who probably used to do it pre-internet anyway, but it isn't normal behaviour.

It's the madness of the internet age. Just at the moment of the human race's greatest triumph* insanity seized the stage.

* Strictly Come Dancing.
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Nearly everyone and their cat is on facebook doing the same thing!
 
Some people post pictures of the food they're having for tea on facebook. That's not normal, but yet it is for these people.
 
Inclusive. It’s one of those ghastly, politically correct words that have survived the demise of New Labour. Schools have got to be “inclusive” these days. That means wheelchair ramps, the complete works of Alice Walker in the school library (though no Mark Twain) and a Special Educational Needs Department that can cope with everything from Dyslexia to Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. If Gove is serious about wanting to bring back O-levels the government will have to repeal the Equality Act because any exam that isn’t “accessible” to a functionally illiterate troglodyte with a mental age of six will be judged to be “elitist” and therefore forbidden by Harman’s Law. (See note at foot of this column.)
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http://www.nosacredcows.co.uk/blog/2026/my_latest_spectator_column.html

@toadmeister


etc
 
I've just seen his postscript.
Some people have misunderstood this paragraph. I'm using "inclusive" in the broad sense to mean a dumbed down, one-size-fits-all curriculum, rather than the narrow sense of providing equal access to mainstream education for people with disabilities. I've absolutely nothing against inclusion in that sense. Rather, what I'm against is the way in which opponents of education reform often invoke the low intelligence of some (non-SEN) children as a reason not to introduce more intellectual rigour into a national curriculum that's meant to be fully inclusive. That's the context in which I use the word "troglodyte". It's supposed to conjure up the fictional, cave-dwelling creatures from the movie One Million Years BC – someone whom it's plainly ridiculous to try and tailor the national curriculum for. It's not supposed to be a synonym for a child with SEN. Indeed, a moment's reflection should make this clear. After all, I'm trying to point up the absurdity of Harman's position and if I had intended "troglodyte" to mean "children with SEN" then Harman's position would seem sympathetic rather than absurd.
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My bold. :facepalm:
 
William of Walworth said:
I have little or no respect for thick as pigshit idiots. Especially them as write thick as pigshit 'clarifications' like the above :hmm: :mad:
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What gets me is how he can be allowed to run a 'free' school when he holds such reprehensible views. It seems to me that he is also trying live the 'classical' education experience vicariously through his kids and by being the governor of school.
 
*gets all huffy*

An editorial team realising that a contributor didn't critically assess their own work before submission, and that they let a shit piece of work get through, and correcting their mistake is not censorship. Burchill is still free to express her disgusting opinions, and hasn't apologised in any way for that ghastly mutant piece of crap.
 
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