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PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Tony Blair doesn't like being called a 'Centrist Dad'

Morning Hugo

SpinningHugo wrote: You just read the headline, not the interview

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“Centrist dads are middle-aged men who cannot come to terms with the world and politics changing.” You know the type: Labour’s lurch to the left physically pains them, to the point that they almost voted Conservative in the last election, yet still they get very upset whenever anyone calls them a Tory in response.

refitman wrote:Oops, Boris telling porkies again.

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AngryAsWell wrote:'Teachers will only have real autonomy when the government allows them to say no to the latest stupid fad'

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In a letter to education professionals, seen by Schools Week, the new academies minister Lord Agnew has set out plans to develop new “resources and guidance” for teachers.

This new “curriculum” will assist school staff in promoting fundamental British values and “building pupils’ resilience to extremist ideologies”, Agnew says.

This will be done via existing subjects. For example, the chronological teaching of British history can help “foster integration” and history lessons can teach pupils about the evolution of parliamentary democracy and religious tolerance, Agnew says.

Other subjects affected include RE, PSHE and citizenship.

The move follows calls from a senior government official, Dame Louise Casey, for the promotion of British laws, history and values within the core school curriculum.

HindleA wrote:Happy birthday to mbc1955,if viewing,others can pass message on.(congratulations exempt.from quota system)

We’ll never stop Brexit or Trump until we address the anger fuelling both
Jonathan Freedland

Brexit would not have passed without the backing of well-off shire Tories, just as Trump would have lost without the backing of traditional, well-heeled Republicans. But, for the sake of argument, let’s focus on the demographic regarded as decisive: the white voters of those small towns left behind by globalisation, if not modernity itself.

gilsey wrote:Yes. Plenty of 'affluent eurosceptics' in this North Yorkshire village too, but journalists don't seem to have anything to say about them.
Much easier to roll out the usual cliches about the 'left behind', who have far more justification in voting for change, any change, imo.

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The absolute conviction of leave voters that everything will be OK can only conceivably come, to my mind, from the idea that we got on fine before we joined. For them, that past world still exists, it's the status quo we revert to when the EU future is rejected. Instead of a step forward into the unknown, into an abyss of half formed Brexit ideas, for them it's actually a step back, a step away from the brink of the EU's brave new world of a more federal, more fluid, less nationalist Europe.

citizenJA wrote:

Willow904 wrote:----
The absolute conviction of leave voters that everything will be OK can only conceivably come, to my mind, from the idea that we got on fine before we joined. For them, that past world still exists, it's the status quo we revert to when the EU future is rejected. Instead of a step forward into the unknown, into an abyss of half formed Brexit ideas, for them it's actually a step back, a step away from the brink of the EU's brave new world of a more federal, more fluid, less nationalist Europe.

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UK's relationship with the EU works so well we're not aware of how much we depend upon the interdependent connections created through decades

AngryAsWell wrote:​Tesco has defended its Christmas advert after it came under fire for featuring a Muslim family.

The festive short film follows a string of families celebrating Christmas Day as they prepare dinner, pull crackers and feast on leftovers.

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Willow904 wrote:

gilsey wrote:Yes. Plenty of 'affluent eurosceptics' in this North Yorkshire village too, but journalists don't seem to have anything to say about them.
Much easier to roll out the usual cliches about the 'left behind', who have far more justification in voting for change, any change, imo.

Yes, that's the weirdness of it. The vast majority of leave voters appear to be older, socially conservative and inward looking. They seem to be trying to return to earlier certainties not upend them. For instance they tend to be against immigration, which they see as bringing unwanted change to their communities. Journalists describe the EU as the status quo and Brexit as a reaction against the status quo. But it could be that the EU isn't seen as the status quo, rather the status quo is the ordered world of the past, before the Euro, before the accession of the old Soviet bloc states, that the uncertainties of change are being rejected in favour of a familiar past. The absolute conviction of leave voters that everything will be OK can only conceivably come, to my mind, from the idea that we got on fine before we joined. For them, that past world still exists, it's the status quo we revert to when the EU future is rejected. Instead of a step forward into the unknown, into an abyss of half formed Brexit ideas, for them it's actually a step back, a step away from the brink of the EU's brave new world of a more federal, more fluid, less nationalist Europe.

If you were in your ‘reminiscence bump’ before the UK joined the EU in 1973 you are at risk of remembering these times more fondly and in more detail than they actually were

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Irish border is an unexpected problem in the Brexit talks.
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RogerOThornhill wrote:If there is one thing on that Twitter that makes my blood boil it's their "In case you missed it" 'feature - really very annoying. Seems to kick in even though you've only been away from the PC long enough to do the washing up!

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RogerOThornhill wrote:If there is one thing on that Twitter that makes my blood boil it's their "In case you missed it" 'feature - really very annoying. Seems to kick in even though you've only been away from the PC long enough to do the washing up!

Is it possible to turn it off, that feature?
I seldom use Twitter and Facebook