I think it was those parodies from a few years back - some of them published by Penguin, who would once have looked down their beak at the idea - that cemented a false idea of Ladybird Books in the public mind. The truth is rather different:Since I first wrote about the Ladybird books obsession with modernism (article here) I've become increasingly fascinated by the role they played in fostering a spirit of excitement in Britain's postwar schemes to modernise. Picking up copies in second hand bookshops I've started to see a much more concerted effort to portray a positive ...
There's a lot to be said for the cricket journalist George Dobell. He has a record of discomfiting the game's authorities and is both sensible and trenchant in his views. Here he is on England's decision to rely on spin bowlers with almost no experience, and how the structure of our domestic season has forced them into it. We're all feeling happier after Ollie Pope's heroics today, but what he says remains true.
Towards the end of last year a group of far-right German political leaders gathered in a country hotel on the outskirts of Potsdam. They included key members of Germany's Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party including the personal aide to the party leader Alice Weidel. The AfD is currently riding high in German opinion polls. It is number one in Germany's five eastern Lander (states) and placing second or third in several Lander in the Western half. The meeting was organised to hear a proposal from Austrian Martin Sellner, former leader of the Identitarian Movement. Sellner has been banned from Britain ...
Europe, 1939-45. 6 000 000 Jewish people exterminated by the Nazis. Cambodia, 1975-79. Over 1 000 000 murdered (the Killing Fields) by Khmer Rouge. Rwanda,1994. 800 000 Tutsis slaughtered, mostly in the two months April and May. Srebrenica, 1995. 7 000 Muslim boys and men killed by Bosnian Serb Forces and 20 000civilians expelled from the area (ethnic cleansing) . Darfur, 2023. 9 000 dead and 5 600 000 displaced in Sudan. Gaza, 2023/4. 25 700 dead so far, and 1 700 000 displaced. Isaiah. (c550BCE). Come ye and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord, the ...
Dundee FC Community Trust has a new healthy lifestyle initiative starting in February. Details below and further information is available from laura@dundeefc.co.uk :
