Wednesday, 30 May 2012

Governed by philistines


The benefits of proofreading
This is from an online cricket coaching resource:
...if there are distractions floating around your mind, you are sure not to be focussing to your optimum level and are more likely to male a mistake.
So. You need to clear your mind of distractions. Otherwise you are at more risk of maling a mistake. Oops. While tiping, male sure you right the write words, and concentrate.

Kensal Rise library
If you want to know why I don't vote and why they're all the same:
"The cowardice of Brent's Labour council in stripping Kensal Rise library, and the philistinism of unscrewing the brass plaque remembering Mark Twain from its wall, in the middle of the night, would horrify anyone who still recalls Labour's founding mission to share education, knowledge and hope with the people. We will continue to fight for our library," said the author Maggie Gee, vice-president of the Royal Society of Literature.
The playwright Michael Frayn also condemned the move. "They took the books out and the plaque down? So the library is now an unlibrary, in the way that people became unpersons in the darkest days of the Soviet Union. I hope they took the titles of the books off as well. Removing unbooks from an unlibrary – who could possibly object?"
The biographer Sir Michael Holroyd said: "The wanton destruction of the Kensal Rise Library – its books removed, its history erased – is a gross act of philistinism which will bring lasting shame to all involved."
For Parliament, read: hall of philistines, all parties. Remember Ed Balls (now financial guru, then education guru) setting the bar for our kids' education at the point where they statistically avoided jail.


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