Alan Johnson’s solution to youth crime (http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2026571,00.html) will just move the problem around. No matter how educated the workforce, some people will be needed for low paid jobs in cleaning, retail, and personal care. A tenth of the workforce will need to do the bottom tenth of jobs: they will go to [...]
Entries from April 2007
April 14, 2007
Two reasons why Tony Blair is an idiot – the Callaghan Speech
Obviously these are not the only reasons one could come up with, and I’m sure those against the war would see this as a mere distraction, but the widely reported part of Blair’s Callaghan speech (http://www.labour.org.uk/index.php?id=news2005&ux_news%5Bid%5D=tbpublicrealm&no_cache=1) is just controversy for controversy’s sake. Saying that ‘we won’t stop this by pretending it isn’t young black kids [...]
