Just watched the Friday Newsnight
Not impressed.
'Is it just me, or is the structure of the site and posting system all a bit odd at the 'mo?
May explain the massive number of posts, I guess.
Just watched my PC download, in a very staccato manner (a function of other site issues perhaps?).
Re: Unwitting discrimination
I have never really understood what the definition(s) of racism is/are, and adding institutional on to it just seems to muddy already murky waters.
Still a lot of folk are making nice careers out the whole thing.
I can only wonder how one can really address something 'unwitting', as surely by definition it is not done on purpose and is almost impossible to 'correct' without highly legitimate accusations of undue influence. And by being a whole lot more sinister than the rather quaint 'positive discrimination', which seems to mean strong-arming a result to suit un-demo or meritocratic agendas that often seem held outside the public's voting wishes.
Ms. Abbott was singularly unconvincing and uncharacteristically tongue-tied and inept when trying to explain away some rather key questions on why one sector alone was performing so poorly. In fact a tack was quickly changed almost mid-sentence, and hence maybe the piece should have been re-labelled, 'institutional class-in-London-ism' instead?
The original title could have held true had the 'wealth of qualitative evidence which suggests that black pupils are disciplined more frequently, more harshly, and for less serious misbehaviour than other pupils" - and that such a differential approach is likely to be unwitting on the part of the teachers' made it on air, but I don't recall any being mentioned. Maybe the qualitative evidence referred to was Ms. Abbott's alone? In which case it made for an interesting insight into journalism today.
Re: Lib Dem poll
Ming, er, who the heck put him in charge? I'm off to a Lib Dem 'do' soon as part of a mission to figure who in my county gets my vote as our MP is standing down.
His performance in this would have been enough to make the odds of my support pretty dim, but the more recently unveiled discussions on pacts with Mr. Brown are, if true, enough to strike that flickering light.
Looking forward to Panorama tonight, though.'
ADDENDUM:
Fixed, is it?
I just tried to post what I wrote a few days ago (see below) and got this:
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Or maybe 'a feature that requires a weblog commenter to wait a short amount of time before being able to post again' is what is meant by 'fixing'?
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