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Visitor From Britain

How many people have heard of Maryam Namazie?

Maryam is a campaigner for ‘One Law for All’ in the UK, and is disturbed by ‘the silence of parts of the media and the inaction by the British government over what she says are sharia’s attacks on the fundamental rights of Britain’s Muslim citizens.’

What I find so encouraging are the numbers of Muslims who seem to be supporting her cause.

Link to an article in The Australian.

Working Women Revisited

It was interesting to read the Janus and Sipu takes on working women. It so happens that they are both different to my own experience and beliefs. No less valid but just different.

Janus wrote – ‘Further education for women was extremely elitist’. Not in Jockland it wasn’t. My maternal grandfather was the son of a tenant farmer. On his return from Gallipoli, having served there with the Fife & Forfar Yeomanry, he quarreled irrevocably with his parents because they had nominated his younger brother as the reserved worker rather than him.
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It’s not funny really!

I note that there is currently a scramble for university places following the A level results yesterday. I was reading the dead-tree version of DT yesterday while on the ferry back to Dover and there was an entire supplement devoted to places still available, though most of them were at the third-rate former polys. To begin with I found it quite amusing to think some students waste time and money on Accommodation Management. Then I discovered that you could do a degree in Embroidery at Nottingham Trent – a skill I learned at my mother’s knee, along with Knitting. It reminded me of the rude slogans shouted by the students of the University of Nottingham whenever they had a match against Trent, according to my son.

After a short while the entertainment value wore off – round about Greenkeeping, I think – and I was simply sad to see what Blair had reduced our education system to. An absolute travesty!

I’m quite tempted to phone up Trent to ask at what stage of the course they introduce the hard bits like chain stitch or french knots.