Scientists buzz Simon Cowell for promoting pseudoscience

Sense About Science publishes its annual review of

misleading claims of celebrities, including vitamins intravenously Cowell

Where there's a celebrity, there is often a fad diet, miracle bracelets of glass or a misunderstanding of science. In 2011, Simon Cowell thinks it is better to get your vitamins delivered intravenously, on American television, Bill O'Reilly, have the tides of the Earth was a mystery, and Gwyneth Paltrow defends an expensive drug treatment.

These errors are known, and many others, stand out in the sixth annual report published by the sense of charity About Science (SAS). "We are seeing changes - people are in contact with us, medical charities celebrities are more and work with us to follow the advice dangerous, and now we have over 5,000 scientists and hundreds of organizations have signed to provide the help, "said Tracey Brown, CEO of SAS.

"So there's really no excuse for misleading statements promulgation of celebrities. Despite giving us a reason to talk about the science of sound on topics such as oceans and diets Unfortunately, our publications do not go that far, so fast as a comment on the actress list ".

Simon Cowell believes he can look and feel young with a cocktail of intravenous vitamin C, B12 and magnesium: ".. It feels very warm ... I feel all vitamins as you go through is very relaxing "

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, nutritionist at the British Dietetic Association, Cowell said the treatment was unlikely to provide many benefits and that unless a person has a deficiency of vitamins, food intake must provide all vitamins they need. "Absorption of vitamins is very effective - and more people who are very sick or intestinal problems specific - almost all of what you eat is absorbed by the body," he said. "If you're worried about not getting enough vitamins from food, and can not change your diet, supplements are an easy way to provide peace of mind."

Perhaps more surprisingly, Cowell was the hatred of the U.S. reality TV star Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi from the beach. She left a fear of sharks and because "the water of all whales. Ocean so salty. "

Simon Boxall, an oceanographer at the University of Southampton, said it would take a sperm to make the salty sea.

"Salt comes from the sea millions of years of water flowing over rocks and minerals," he said. "It dissolves slowly, leading to the" dirty "nature of the sea - not just salt, but all materials on the planet, including salt water into gold is really our oceans free of many human pathogens -. Why not give another chance at the beach and back in the water? "

• American television presenter and political commentator Bill O'Reilly is confusing the world's oceans. "In my view - and, at low tide, low tide never a lack of communication can not explain that you can not explain why the tide in ..."
• Dr Chris Lintott
• , astrophysicist and co-presenter of The Sky at Night, O'Reilly accepted the challenge. "It's just the gravity of the moon on the earth causes the tides," he said. "Solid surface of the earth is stretched by the pull of the moon, but the oceans are free to move so more spectacular, the production of two familiar tides per day. Nothing too complicated about it, even if they take the theories of Isaac Newton for the clear explanation. "
• Professor Sean Kehoe
, a gynecologic oncologist at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford, was the U.S. Congressman Michelle Bachman said to reporters earlier this year that the vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV ), used to protect girls against cervical cancer was related to mental retardation.

"There is no evidence that the vaccine against HPV causes mental retardation or that there are dangerous consequences," said Dr. Kehoe. "The evidence that cervical cancer kills, however, is indisputable. The vaccination program in the UK is expected to save 400 lives a year young in the UK."

As with the celebrities in the past, many celebrities came out in 2011, while fans of detoxification as a way to "cleanse" the body of harmful things. Gwyneth Paltrow, GOOP wrote in his blog: "I have goop on the program of Dr. Alejandro Junger cleaning before she gave me spectacular results, but it's really the thing, if you need one good rehab - they want a little mental clarity and drop a few pounds ... That's an incredible pleasure liver and 2011 "

Dr. Christian Jessen
, GP and TV presenter said that if anyone tried to start the new year with good intentions to a healthy lifestyle, a detoxification plan is not the answer. "The body has its own detoxification system already in fantastic shape your liver and kidneys. Much better to drink plenty of water, eat a balanced diet, adequate sleep, and let your body do what it does better ".

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Girls 'more resilient' than boys at school

parent families girls outperform boys in class because they are less affected by the views of parents, according to a study

girls seem more resilient than boys in the prevention of problems at home affect their behavior in school, according to a study that attempts to explain the achievement gap between the sexes.

The trend for girls perform better in recent years the school has become more pronounced in the UK in the last two decades. In 2011, the percentage difference between the proportion of girls gaining A * or A GCSE grades and subjects for males reaching a high of 6.7, compared to only 1.5 percentage points in 1989.

education researchers have attempted to explain the difference through a variety of factors related to the physiology and the environment, including the theory that children are naturally more resistant to a formal system of education.

But the new study, based on detailed data from 20,000 U.S. children over a decade, found no specific evidence of the school on the basis of factors is important. Instead, it was found that children raised outside the traditional two-parent families are more likely to have behavioral problems and self-control at school and were suspended more often. The data ended when the children were about 14 years, but the suspensions are considered a strong indicator of poor school performance later.

This effect is much less pronounced among children raised in nontraditional families. At a time when children were 10 or 11 of the "gender gap" between boys and girls show behavioral problems in school were twice as great for raised by single mothers as traditional families.

• "The gap between boys and girls is one of the great enigmas haunting investigators at the moment, and correlation with family life is very, very surprising," said Marianne Bertrand, Professor of Economics the University of Chicago Booth Business School, co-author of the study.

"We found no real relationship between parental input and achievements of young girls. It's like their protection, in a sense. The views of parents becomes relevant for children than girls. "

The results were in no way intended to stigmatize single parents, he said. "It's obviously a much more complicated than what we're trying to say -. And we're not the first to clarify this point - is that these families are very different in the amount of time they spend with their children, perhaps because they spend more time at work. They have no reason to be smart.

"But we're not really that way. We are documenting this fact, which is already very well accepted, and that because of questions to this entry so different for boys and girls, children are ill these families. "
Dylan William, Professor Emeritus of Educational Assessment at the Institute of Education, University of London, said the study adds that "a growing literature to explain exactly how things impact of trauma in children. "

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Universal primary education by 2015? Not without some innovative financing | Kevin Watkins

The MDGs promised education for all, but to avoid the failure of the most disadvantaged children in the world, we need a global fund

walk through the maze of alleys and shacks of corrugated cardboard in the sprawling slum of Kibera, Nairobi, and you get an idea of ??the power of education.

In a resolution of about 1 million people is a public school, just to see. Deprived of their right to free public education, some of the poorest in the world have to pay for the privilege of sending their children to private schools without trained teachers, books, pencils, water and sanitation.

Kidongo Mary, a single mother with four children, has certainly worth the sacrifice. Do two jobs can be kept close to two children to school. One of them, David, 12, has no doubts about the value of education. "If I can make it through elementary school, my future will be better. Maybe I can become a doctor. "

He helped his mother pay school fees - about $ 3 a month - to work for six hours a day by selling coal in the local market. His greatest fear is that going to have to leave school as his older brother and sister.

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poorest countries in the world, desperately poor parents struggle to get their children an education that will help them escape poverty. They know that learning provides an avenue to greater income and opportunities for expansion - and so do their children. If only governments around the world share their sense of purpose and ambition. They undertook, as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of universal primary education by 2015, the international community effectively shrugged, turned and broke a promise to the world's children.

The global crisis of education

is not the headlines. No children go hungry because of lack of classrooms and textbooks. And financial markets are not recorded figures bad news for children in school.

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tell a part of history. In the midst of our increasingly interconnected world and knowledge-based economy, there are 67 million school-age children not attending school, with a greater number of adolescents. Millions more to start school but drop out before obtaining literacy and numeracy needed to escape poverty.

Now the bad news. After a rapid decline in the first half of the last decade, progress in reducing the school number has stagnated. According to UNESCO, we are faced with the prospect of having more children out of school in 2015, we have today. It is difficult to imagine a more telling indictment of governments that have signed up for the MDGs with such solemnity.

To make matters worse, there is a body of collecting survey data highlighting the impressive quality of education that affect millions of children. One study found in rural areas of Pakistan (pdf) which, after three years of schooling, half the children were unable to write a sentence with the word "school".

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inequalities in education are disparities in the morning trade, income and employment. Bridging the act as a catalyst for growth and poverty reduction. Get all the schools for girls in Africa could prevent 1.8 million deaths per year.

So what went wrong? Part of the problem can be attributed to the interaction between educational disadvantage and poverty. Achieve universal primary education means breaking the difficulties that the forces of 115 million children in school and the labor market. This means that public attitudes towards sex that result in more than 6 million more girls out of school than boys. And that means the design of policies that expand opportunities for hard to reach, such as those living in rural areas and slums like Kibera.

Reviving the progress towards the MDGs requires a much stronger commitment to equity by the governments of these countries. Progress in the last decade in countries such as Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique and Bangladesh shows that poverty should not be an obstacle to education. But political leaders must demonstrate a commitment to reach those who stayed behind.

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Lords warning as Gove aims to exempt top schools from inspections

As the law of education is addressed in the Lords, Lord Hunt and Trevor Fisher warned that without Ofsted inspection, the school standards slip

Over the past two decades, while the English schools have suffered a permanent revolution of government initiatives, an institution has its critics. Ofsted - the Office for Standards in Education -. It was the guarantor of the accepted quality

For politicians, the press and public, research and reports from Ofsted inspectors have been the key to the understanding of how schools have done. Until this year, no politician would have thought the elimination of school inspectors from Ofsted.

Reputation

Ofsted success is based on the replacement of inspection systems to discredit the 1970s.

The scandal of William Tyndale School in Islington, where the children seem to learn something, and local authorities seem to be aware of the failures in school, has things to the head.

when the Labour Prime Minister James Callaghan delivered his famous speech at Ruskin College, 1976, calling for reform, not even bother to tell the chief inspector would do. What was known as the "secret garden" would be inspected regularly and completely independent, and Ofsted was the result.

Ofsted has its roots in the belief that schools were walled up research and accountability. "Secret Garden" the term was invented in 1960 by the Conservative education secretary Sir David Eccles to express concern he does not know what happened in schools.

However, neither he nor his immediate successors wanted to direct intervention. Callaghan Ruskin speech has changed. The door in the "garden" was opened by subsequent governments actively intervene. The creation of Ofsted was the logical result.

Ofsted professors never encouraged, but their criticisms have fallen on deaf ears. Indeed, despite the reduction in the number of inspectors, leaving the rest stretched dangerously thin and challenged by having to take care of Social Services Inspectorate, Ofsted has never seriously lost credibility. It has become an essential tool for maintaining public confidence in national education.

• Therefore, it was a surprise when the Education Secretary Michael Gove proposal to exempt categories of school inspection. This is one of 50 extra power that is in current education law without much debate.
The key issue is Article 39, under the misleading title "Rules" which refers to "school inspection:. Free schools. " This needs immediate attention

At first glance, appear to be minor changes from one type of inspection will be maintained. What remains is the old inspection system operator Victorian allowed under Article 8 of the Education Act 2005. However, they have always been few and far between. These inspections Ofsted Section 5 of the 2005 Act that matter, and in these the Act amends the Act of 2005 on two crucial points. First, section (4A) provides that "The regulations may provide that this section does not apply to certain categories of schools in certain circumstances." This is ignored by section (4B), which states that "a school to which this section does not apply under the rules of subsection (4A) is a free school'".

The regulation does not specify schools or classes for which the exemption applies. In fact, the circumstances that lead schools to be removed from the inspection regime are not clear. All that is clear is that the Secretary of State makes these decisions. But the question we must ask, is in the public interest for all institutions to be exempt, so back to the secret garden?
Today is suggested that schools in grades 1, approved by Ofsted could be exempt from inspection. But no matter how good the class comes with a guarantee of continued success. Standards can and slides. In his report to the lords, Ofsted found that 31% of the outstanding graduate schools inspection not to maintain this standard at the next inspection. Since the ranking of the top allows inspections to be postponed, it is clear that almost a third of outstanding schools take their foot off the accelerator when the periodic inspection is not imminent. How much worse will the situation if they do not have a regular inspection at all

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Rioters, bankers and paparazzi all thought they could get away with it | Michael White

need for accountability and effective remedies for those out of control with our money, our privacy practices or coaches Foot Locker

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short memories sometimes have things that matter. Interim report Monday in the five days of rioting in August, which frightened us so everything was relegated to half way through the bulletins and inside pages of newspapers on Tuesday, despite stressing the crucial fact the Metropolitan Police to have a influence in the early troubles in the capital.

also suggests that between 13,000 and 15,000 protesters took part in the estimated value of £ 500 million by the looting and destruction are not motivated by the reduction of the coalition or political, but by the conviction - belatedly corrected for 4000 arrests to date -. they could get away with allegedly stealing a high-status products on an industrial scale

"get away with it" - which is a phrase that keeps coming up in 2011. The bankers, the tabloids, the perpetrators of the England team rugby is not like most people behave - the riots that he is a minority taste - but once again emphasizes the need for accountability and effective remedies for those out of control with our money, our feet cabinet confidentiality or trainers.

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controversial results in half of the report on the riots in independent communities, and the panel of victims, explains why he has been relatively little coverage. I saw the President, Darra Singh, former CEO of Ealing Borough Council (unlikely there was a disturbance in the center of Ealing), the meaning of television. And not be sensitive help attract the attention of The Daily Beast is.

But many people - including me - were quick to copy the epidemic of disorders of the consumer at the time and to compare the response of the police in London slowly (no Buenos Aires) with speed and other social networks Twitter can be used to fan the flames. This seems to be that of disturbances panel - you can read their findings in more detail here - seems to think too much

The committee rejected suggestions that there are problems or race riots organized by the band, leaving the children alone. They were committed mostly by young adult males, 42% white among those who appear before the courts to date, 46% black and 7% in Asia.

guess says something about the social profile of poor states, but can also take advantage of underlying attitudes towards society in general.

The withdrawal of the police on the outskirts of unrest in some areas, a factor that has angered many merchants and residents at the moment - is just -. Confirmed

The fact is strange is that since the riots in Tottenham, where foreseeable problems in the police firing army of Mark Duggan was not anticipated by the commander of the city The Met was unprepared.

• We note in passing that the Metropolitan Commissioner is the fourth in six years and trapped in the politics of big phone-hacking scandal. Not a great advertisement for the model chosen by the Commissioner of Police that the government is about to impose. Morale at the local level should be low, which could explain the lack of zeal in the face of the demonstrators.
• However, failure to pay claims promptly and properly damage Riot Act in 1886 - the Victorians as riots, do not say? - Has also been criticized, and rightly so. That banks, the demonstrators, the recession and the government, small businesses in our communities depend have a hard time.
• is interesting that the Daily Mail on Tuesday include "The left was totally wrong to blame the cuts," as Ken Livingstone, and Harriet Harman, among others, quick to do with ease, especially since Haringey - that is Tottenham -. budget was reduced by 9%

brings me to point out that if the revision dramatic extent of the diffusion images during the first days of the riots, I think you will find that over 46% of them had their faces black . All the bad things.

Where do we go from here? George Osborne is facing the task of persuading us that "we are all in this together" when you file your return on Tuesday fall. The day after the unions took to the streets in what is undoubtedly a political protest against the pressure on pension obligations. Imports of inclusion and equity in both events.

Meanwhile, Singh Group will present its final report in March, probably around the day of the budget. There are links between the rioters as they feel and behave and how society is generally believed - a threat or as young people growing up in difficult times that Britain has experienced several decades

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Graduates learn some networking skills

universities to give students lessons network to help them succeed in the competitive job market

If she goes to a networking event that is surrounded by groups of people are already talking of attention, how to get into a conversation? "Avoid groups of four," said David Radcliffe, a graduate of 22 years in criminology and sociology at the University of Liverpool.

"Look for people standing in a V," Ayesha Salahuddin, also 22, studied law, he added. "His body language is implying that they are respectful."

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away when the conversation is dead? You can easily detect anyone in the room and apologized, saying that you need to talk to them, he said. Otherwise, there is always the reserve of the adage that you need to cut the gentlemen or ladies.

Salahuddin Radcliffe and learned their trade in a network "graduated from Boot Camp" issued by the new service of the University of Liverpool races, in collaboration with the City Chamber of Commerce.

With the latest unemployment figures show graduates to a maximum of 15 years, Liverpool, with other universities, believes that these "soft skills" are more important than ever. Latest figures from the Higher Education Statistics Agency revealed that over a quarter of graduates are still working full time over three years after leaving university.

time, his only way to get a job, says Paul Redmond, head of career and employment service. Today, employers can afford to staff a lot more in the future. "Competition for jobs is so intense, and often the differentiators are called soft skills," he said. "Small Talk is not small talk in a business environment."

So far, 185 graduates have been trained in the program for 10 days Gradvantage. Among those who passed the course, only 32 had graduated this year. "Once the credit crisis happened we thought" we must begin to do different things for graduates, "said Ron Redmond.

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by the Sutton Trust in 2009 found that while only 7% of children in the UK are educated privately owned, most of which are at the top from independent leadership passed to pay for school. Among the senior judges and lawyers, seven in ten have received a private education, and 55% of partners in law firms and 54% of the best journalists and doctors.

and unpaid - often achieved through family ties - are becoming more pervasive, experts believe that social mobility of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have put you at a disadvantage, even high

Gradvantage is not specifically designed for graduates from less affluent families - anyone based on Merseyside, with a degree from any university can participate (one of its objectives is to encourage graduates to remain in the region).

But Redmond should help create a more level playing field for young people who may not have networks that are already built more than their peers of the middle class.

• Paul Cullinan, who works for liaison with employers and also teaches the technical section of the networks, you get the map of groups of people who know, as a scheme to get them to think of possible links be successful.

"You get people who say they do not know anyone," says project coordinator Sharon Nicholson. "There is always someone on your network that can help, but might be able to contact someone else who can. Some people's struggle with that to begin with. "

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are taught the harsh reality that, while he may be looking for work on websites and in newspapers, many employers will post jobs once we looked for internal candidates contacts and then asked if they know anyone suitable. This means that to make themselves known to potential employers is essential.

"We encourage them to go to the nature of the places where people want to talk to hang out - go to job fairs and not just pick up the leaflets, but talking with people and make maps visit, "said Nicholson.
The course aims to be as practical as possible: Cullinan shows their advice to make the most of networking events as half the group to start talking among themselves, while others observe their body language .

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Private rents too dear for families in most areas

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shows that families are priced out of the rental market "control" in 55% of local authorities in English

families have been left for rent in most local authorities in England, under the shelter of the homeless charity.

La Guardia rental housing found that average rents private out of reach of ordinary working families in 55% of local authorities in England. Typical rents charged by private owners were more than a third of the median home, the accepted measure of affordability.

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said that research has shown that 38% of families with children who had dropped private rented food to pay their rent.

Although the rent was traditionally seen as a cheaper alternative to ownership, the credit crunch and high home prices have forced many potential buyers remain as tenants.

At the same time, an increasing number of people who normally would be entitled to social housing have been pushed to the private sector by an acute shortage of local authorities and property of the housing association. The number of private tenants rent has increased by nearly one million over the past five years.

The increased demand has pushed up rents, especially in the cities of London, which are the most expensive in England. £ 1360, an average rent of a house with two rooms in the capital is almost two and a half times the average in the rest of the country (£ 568). The area of ??least affordable local authorities outside London is Oxford, where the typical rent account for 55% of median income.

tenants on benefits in these areas are already struggling to find properties for rent in the new location of the limit of housing allocation, implemented in April for new tenants since the beginning next year for existing leases.

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said tenants in many rural areas were also most affected by high rents and low incomes.

found cheaper to rent in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, in North Devon, Dorset and North Herefordshire. In Yorkshire, Bradford and Sheffield are more affordable properties for rent in rural areas of Richmondshire and Ryedale.

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refuge in England showed that 8% of local authorities were affordable to rent, with a median of 50% or more of full-time average wage in the home, 21% were out of reach income equivalent to 40% to 49% of the median home full time to achieve. and 29% were totally inaccessible to the average income of 35% to 39% of the average full-time at home

Campbell Robb, Executive Director of Housing, said: "With the huge differences in access across the country, now there are worrying signs that families tend to be displaced by these beyond the control of the rental market

"We have become sadly familiar with first-time buyers priced housing market, but the impact of affordable rents is more dramatic. No cheaper alternative, ordinary people are forced to cut essential expenses like food and heating, or uproot and move away from jobs, schools and families. "

• Robb said it was time for the government to urgently consider private rental can become a stable and affordable option for families "and not a financial burden that makes parents choose between buying food for their children and pay rent. "
Alicia Barnard, executive director of the Countryside Alliance, said the lack of affordable housing to rent or purchase one of the most pressing problems of rural communities.

"The field has seen its population grow at twice the rate in urban areas, which has pushed up prices, forcing families to make sacrifices to meet the rising costs of rent and prices of young families in the communities where they grew up, "he said.

"If we want our rural communities thrive, while the government must urgently review the rental market in rural areas for rural communities to meet their housing needs."

Melissa Brown, a yoga teacher, part time, and her husband David *, a university professor, was impossible to rent an affordable housing when its owners decided to sell their home current.

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Private rents unaffordable for families in most English boroughs

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shows that families are priced out of the rental market "control" in 55% of local authorities in English

families have been left for rent in most local authorities in England, under the shelter of the homeless charity.

La Guardia rental housing found that average rents private out of reach of ordinary working families in 55% of local authorities in England. Typical rents charged by private owners were more than a third of the median home, the accepted measure of affordability.

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said that research has shown that 38% of families with children who had dropped private rented food to pay their rent.

Although the rent was traditionally seen as a cheaper alternative to ownership, the credit crunch and high home prices have forced many potential buyers remain as tenants.

At the same time, an increasing number of people who normally would be entitled to social housing have been pushed to the private sector by an acute shortage of local authorities and property of the housing association. The number of private tenants rent has increased by nearly one million over the past five years.

The increased demand has pushed up rents, especially in the cities of London, which are the most expensive in England. £ 1360, an average rent of a house with two rooms in the capital is almost two and a half times the average in the rest of the country (£ 568). The area of ??least affordable local authorities outside London is Oxford, where the typical rent account for 55% of median income.

tenants on benefits in these areas are already struggling to find properties for rent in the new location of the limit of housing allocation, implemented in April for new tenants since the beginning next year for existing leases.

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said tenants in many rural areas were also most affected by high rents and low incomes.

found cheaper to rent in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham, in North Devon, Dorset and North Herefordshire. In Yorkshire, Bradford and Sheffield are more affordable properties for rent in rural areas of Richmondshire and Ryedale.

Review of

refuge in England showed that 8% of local authorities were affordable to rent, with a median of 50% or more of full-time average wage in the home, 21% were out of reach income equivalent to 40% to 49% of the median home full time to achieve. and 29% were totally inaccessible to the average income of 35% to 39% of the average full-time at home

Campbell Robb, Executive Director of Housing, said: "With the huge differences in access across the country, now there are worrying signs that families tend to be displaced by these beyond the control of the rental market

"We have become sadly familiar with first-time buyers priced housing market, but the impact of affordable rents is more dramatic. No cheaper alternative, ordinary people are forced to cut essential expenses like food and heating, or uproot and move away from jobs, schools and families. "

• Robb said it was time for the government to urgently consider private rental can become a stable and affordable option for families "and not a financial burden that makes parents choose between buying food for their children and pay rent. "
Alicia Barnard, executive director of the Countryside Alliance, said the lack of affordable housing to rent or purchase one of the most pressing problems of rural communities.

"The field has seen its population grow at twice the rate in urban areas, which has pushed up prices, forcing families to make sacrifices to meet the rising costs of rent and prices of young families in the communities where they grew up, "he said.

"If we want our rural communities thrive, while the government must urgently review the rental market in rural areas for rural communities to meet their housing needs."

Melissa Brown, a yoga teacher, part time, and her husband David *, a university professor, was impossible to rent an affordable housing when its owners decided to sell their home current.

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Michael Bukht obituary letters

Capital Radio, 24 hours on the formation of radio and television, for - and dance history

Nicky Horne

wrote:

Michael Bukhta (obituary, August 8th) had his first great triumph with the release of Capital Radio, the control program that. In 1973, the capital, broadcasting, in London, was the first "music and entertainment," independent local radio stations. He set the standard for what the independent radio stations (which was never allowed to call it "commercial" - also Left) could reach

Michael has always believed that radio could be used as a "fulcrum for change" with the power station used to help the community it serves. From the day he joined in September 1973, we asked DJ novice to think how we relate to our listeners (one of its broadcasting laws in the air that there was more than ever

listener was talking to) and help serve the community. I had the idea of ??a service action plans, with listeners who were looking for participants in touch with those seeking apartments. Michael loved: he was in the air on the first day, and survived for over 13 years I was there. Also on the first day, Tommy Vance and Joan Shenton opened Swap Shop, where they share everything from cars to washing machines, and was an immediate success. Then came the capital of the job seeker, help a child in London and the hotline capital, which lasted 24 hours a day - every first of every radio station in the UK

In terms of programming, Michael was the vision of a comprehensive radio service. It is unthinkable today, but in 1973 we had a Department of negotiations with interviews and documentaries, a daily soap, a program of classical music, rock my show, a children's show, a show for older listeners with music of the 1940s, 50, a phone in every day of the agony aunt Anna Raeburn, a program of jazz, soul, show Greg Edwards, an athletic department and Roger Scott "popular choice", giving listeners the can select a track to be presented during the week. Virtually every show was direct.

Michael had two main rules for those of us lucky enough to work with him: "Tell the truth" and "being real". He did, went, and we will miss him.

Simon Albury, writes:

In 1969, 24 hours, every night now for the precursor BBC Newsnight, has recruited a large number of young people not live "what they were doing. Bukhta Michael was editor of the day. Unlike some of his peers, his supreme confidence that allowed him to take the incompetence in its wake.

Instead of getting angry, it teaches us what we need to know - how to write an introduction to the study, plan and write an interview for the film. Without Michael, would have disappeared without a trace. Within 24 hours

• also started to hit her kitchen, often a mixture of steak tartare early afternoon for the program team. He and his wife, Jennie, often entertaining the entire program team 24 hours a wider range of cooking at home.

When Michael has launched Capital Radio, which became the first British DJ to play the African-American gospel music, Hallelujah the program, under the name of Sam Scott. The launch was pretty chaotic, with additional studies being completed as we went on the air. The monitoring program was not well organized. The first edition was released as Hallelujah fuzz and the words: "Oh, shit ... Well, you can always cut the assembly. "No one noticed and no one complained. I remember Michael as a great teacher and the patient, and an enthusiastic crowd, generous, that was exactly the same something off-screen.

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Philip Gross's top 10 writings from the edge of language

The Waste Land

Jabberwocky, the poet gathers his favorite work of the "conversation between words and silence,"

Philip Gross has written for radio and stage, 10 novels for young opera librettos and collaborations of all kinds, but is best known as a poet. His collection of groundwater has won the TS Eliot, in collaboration with I Spy Eye pinhole photography (with Simon Denison) Wales was the book of the year and the road to all parts of poetry won BPRS children. His new collection, Deep Field, has just been published by Bloodaxe.

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"I just returned from Friesland / Friesland in the north of Holland, to hear a language that is so close to English is like looking at the face through a window bathed in rain. A good cleaning, feels, and you

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them. Now I'm on the disk from south to north Wales, where two languages ??side by side the other oil and water, mixed melting rather not speak Welsh or Frisian -. any other language, in fact, well enough to dream and write a poem about him -. But the irregular border of the language is familiar to me

"I grew up with him on one side, English on the other language, my father -. Who was a refugee during the war in Estonia - that all things were never talked about their experiences in war that he said ... In his old age, are to each other, perhaps better than ever, through the edge of the tongue as he lost his words are cruel aphasia.

"My book is the deepest in the field any record I've always alert for places where language fails us,. As a child with a stutter, I had no choice but writing has remained in my. not mind walking that edge, too much poetry, it is always -. conversation between words and silence - but do not feel good writer, and sometimes taste, the imperfection of words "

1. Ruin by an unknown Anglo-Saxon author

This poem is on the horizon of English poetry. It is a ruin (probably the Roman city of Bath) and is itself a, trailing off into fragments when the sections were burned. The survivors scattered words in these lines and the spaces between them are more eloquent than any case the lines are intact.

2. The Waste Land by TS Eliot

"These fragments I have backed up against my ruins," said a voice near the end lost the division epic Eliot (cultural harmony, personal and lost their voice). Do not be fooled by academic degrees at the end. It is in the moments just before the intellect can follow the references and to understand the meanings The Wasteland really talk

3. Riddley Walker by Russell Hoban

is a novel that reads like a poem. In a post-nuclear dark, the language is broken, stunted growth, in part lost, as all around him. From these materials, a new mythology that we met, because that's what human creativity is going to do with common phrases and images every day to be born rich and strange.

• 4. Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber

Name

"I do not, because there were people in my name," said the last of the Yana California Native Americans in the finals that were out of contact with European culture. The name is Ishi Yana for "man." When he reached the hills, the anthropologist Alfred Kroeber made his partner in the study and the research. This curiosity is respectful of the otherness of others worlds are transferred to the novels of Kroeber's daughter, beautiful Ursula Le Guin.

5. Mom / Llofrudd Iaith Gwyneth Lewis

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Headteachers reject 'appalling' marking of this year's Sats tests

managers fear that their objectives can be neglected because of what some say is "terrible" Sats marks

News

last week to a government report has recommended to write tests for the demolition of 11 years should have been music to the ears of teachers, some with a lot of time campaigning against the tests for children in elementary school. But before he could savor the moment, many problems were involved in the marking of the tests this year, the national program, known as Sat administrators and staff are having a busy week of using Edexcel preparation, the review board, the term Friday.

After receiving an unprecedented number of calls from the administration, the National Association of Head Teachers conducted a survey among its members. At 24 hours, 720 of 954 respondents said they had problems. Over 30% said that the difficulties were "moderate" 28% "severe" and 13% "scandalous", 93% reported problems with the writing of the test. The test, followed by students in six years in May, is not limited to checking the accuracy, the child must show that you can write in a variety of genres and for different audiences

But bosses say the markers this year have put too much emphasis on writing and spelling and not enough on the composition, sentence structure and use of punctuation.

Tony Draper, Director of Water Hall Primary in Milton Keynes (NAHT national executive and member), says that the mark is "absolutely outrageous".

Nine pupils should reach level 4 (the level expected of most students who complete primary school) were classified at level 3. Two students, considered by the teachers have a standard level 5 were classified as Level 4.

One of the articles (see this page), which Draper described as showing "a real touch and imagination of a child under 10 years", won only 13 out of 31 marks (level 3) by an external consultant, with particularly low scores for writing and "the text structure and organization." Draper believes that it should have been awarded with 20, an opinion verified by an assessment of local consultants, which would mean an overall score of level 4. "It's ridiculous, especially the decision to writing, because it is perfectly readable and sitting on the lines," he said. "I can not help thinking that the reviewer did not like that he had crossed, but we teach our children to change their work on the fly, and it is certainly a good practice. "

And this is not the only thing that Draper is not impressed. In five cases, the number of brands have been added incorrectly by the score - in one case resulting in a difference of five points out of possible 30

Draper is sending 11 of 31 documents to be examined again. It's not cheap, schools have to pay £ 9 for script re-marked and only get their money back if your appeal is successful

• Maggie Parker, principal Tameside, near Manchester, the brand known as "disastrous." Over 90% of students are expected to achieve level 4 degrees, and as existing brands stand, only 63% completed. She plans to return a 10 out of 52 documents to be made. "It seems that (the score), just give a quick look at the documents," he complains.

Paul Gabriel, director of Morelos Lancaster Road Primary, agrees. "It's as if the person is marked by watching television at the same time." He plans to return 14 of 60 scripts.

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main Tickford Park Milton Keynes, Ann Tobia is also puzzled. She plans to return 15 of 41 scripts, after only 23 of the 51 students achieved level 4 degrees (the school had predicted 43). She said: "My teachers are experienced markers and precise, so in previous years, their predictions were in scripts this year look like they have seen a child with a load of deletions and which has obviously changed . his mind several times. "

Some, like Draper, say the reviewers seem to be judgments based on the first paragraphs. "We had a brilliant opening paragraph was generally not very good, with a great brand. Another who did not start too well, but is much improved, has a poor rating. "
It's not just students who are affected. Under the government's objectives for primary schools, 60% of year 11 years is expected that the results of level 4 on the SAT. If these marks are preserved, some schools might be hard to achieve their goals. "The directors may consider whether they have a job next year," said Draper. Some have already asked for an explanation.

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Ancient blood fueds cast long shadow over hopes for a modern Albania

power vacuum after the fall of communism led to the resurgence of traditional Kanun law of an eye for an eye

No one will ever know how it all began, and in an original way, the disagreement is not serious, now that blood has been spilled. But there Ismet (not her real name). Ismet be 16, which is a problem. Becoming an adult means that you must bear the burden of the family heritage and responsibility. Look indifferent to the approach of the school door in a village a few miles from Shkodra, the main town in northwestern Albania. But before you begin your story, walk down the street, out of sight of other students.

Ismet looks down while talking. "I'm not sure what to say. I am blamed for something I did not," he begins. Their problems are due to his father. In July 2001, the latter was involved in a dispute with his two brothers in a nearby town, a confused history of the land where his father had been usurped.

There had been previous disputes between the two families, but the insults and threats have become violent. After killing the two brothers, father Ismet is hidden in the mountains for two years. Tried in absentia, was sentenced to life imprisonment and later arrested. Justice of the state had something to say, but justice is not private. Over the last 10 years, the family of two brothers was killed demanding vengeance.

Albania, which hopes to make its application for membership of EU officials this year, made a radical break with its communist past. But the quarrels, one of their most ingrained habits are still very much alive, demanding an eye for an eye in an endless spiral of grief. Only an insult or a violation of public morality can not justify the bloodshed. The ancient Kanun code, which ruled the country life in Albania for five centuries, still dominates, especially in the mountainous north.

This complex system of customary law, once governed all life: wealth, trade, marriage and crime. "The Kanun has survived so long because it's a way of preserving cultural identity and legal," says the writer Besnik Mustafaj. In the capital, Tirana, Nebi Bardosh anthropologist describes as "a form of opposition to any form of state law, not only the Ottoman law "- the countries that gained independence in 1912, after four centuries of Ottoman rule. "The Kanun is related to the religion of blood, which is only one aspect of the fight," he added. "The law is based on two pillars. Fair treatment between men and reciprocity "

This system did not provide the endless parade. On the contrary, since the beginning gave way to the mediation, through the council of elders. A promise of safety (

kisses

) may be granted to certain members of a clan. But tradition has dried and all that remains is the idea of ??revenge. "After death," said Ismet grandfather, the Kalter, "I went to the house of two brothers on two occasions. I told them that there was no problem between us and his family. I tried to negotiate, but even sitting as usual. "

Kalter

welcomes us to the family home where he lives with his wife, Ina, the mother Ismet. The house is small but well maintained. "Ismet will be next January 16 and should begin in high school in another village," said Ina. "I do not want to take that risk. We want to send it abroad."

all changed in Albania since the end of communist rule. Organized crime took over and human trafficking has thrived through arranged marriages, leading to conflicts over family. Especially a lot of violent conflict focused on earth. Despite the relatively small size of the country, the government's authority has been severely questioned. In 1997, the lifting of the Lottery, a conflict on the brink of civil war, erupted following the collapse of several pyramid schemes. In the chaos following dumps were looted arms, the arms of the stimulation of the patriarchal system. Without law enforcement, families turned to the Kanun.

Albanian Penal Code refers to revenge as premeditated murder, but the courts are still at a loss how to deal with this parallel system of justice. "Families have a right to retaliate," said Perparim Kulluri, counsel for Shkodra. "We have seen cases where the relations of the victims gave a clear testimony of the accused, to solve the same results."

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Lowe's pulls TV ads - and gives a Christmas gift to Target et al | Wajahat Ali

Decision

Lowe to withdraw its advertising from All-American Muslim bigots arcades and the risk of a major company own goal

Decision

Lowe, the chain giant home improvement and appliance stores, to withdraw its television advertisements TLC reality show "All-American Muslim," has given way to the intolerance, fear-mongering and paranoia of a minority whose ideology of division of poisons wrong price history of the United States of inclusion and pluralism.

But by doing this without realizing suddenly inspired Lowe a diverse coalition of Americans dedicated to the defense of American values ??and to fight against hate.

Instead of apologizing or even ashamed final decision on the basis of conviction and principle, the wish-washy Lowe defense argued that the company had received messages from a "wide range of customers "and the show had become a" lightning rod for people to voice their complaints through a variety of perspectives. "

On this "broad spectrum" of complaints, Lowe seems to have simply given an email campaign initiated by the Florida Family Association (FFA), a conservative non-profit organization with headquarters in Tampa Bay, who wrote: "[All-American Muslim] Muslim unique profiles that appear to be ordinary people, while excluding many Islamic believers whose program represents a clear and present danger to freedom and traditional values ??that most Americans cherish. "

The organization boasts more than 60 companies, including McDonald's and Amazon, have responded to your email and withdrew their advertisements. So far Lowe, and online travel site kayak.com, are the only companies to confirm it.

The FFA has also threatened to boycott

target ads in the high school drama Degrassi, they believe, "affirms and promotes homosexuality and transgender and other inappropriate behavior during ' an audience of millions of adolescents and children. "

Apparently, the FFA is to protect American families and conservative values ??for the navigation channel and cable networks religiously check. His contribution to the U.S. economy should be the impetus to the industry of the DVR.

We pray that Jesus after his resurrection, will force them to appear on the intervention reality show and ask them why they wasted their time, energy and resources to watch television instead of helping poor or trying to love and understand their neighbors.

of such intervention, FFA seems determined to join the U.S. network of growing Islamophobia, which includes the likes of Pamela Geller professionals hatemonger, it means All-American Muslims " an attempt to manipulate Americans to ignore the threat of jihad. "

Front Page Magazine, David Horowitz

compared Muslims to Nazis, and the theory that the only purpose of the program is launched propaganda to promote a stealth submission "to Islam through the veil."

Apparently, the most unpardonable crime in the series portrays the lives of five families Arab American Muslims in Dearborn, Michigan, as an ordinary and normal. They prefer to promote the usual assortment of stereotypical caricatures of Muslims as an angry mob of bearded anti-Western ideological active Orcs to destroy American values ??by the bombing of Dunkin 'Donuts, Porky Pig slaughter and preparation of Kim Kardashian concubinage.

• radical anti-American jihadists demonstration characters include a federal agent, whose wife is expecting their first child, a dedicated football coach, who was invited by President Obama at the annual dinner of The White House iftar, a tattoo, fans of country music rebel Arab-American married to a white Irish Catholic, a couple struggling with infertility, and dyed blonde, ambitious entrepreneur who wants to start his own nightclub.

Sounds like the resume of his media group Al-Qaeda to recruit.

without a hint of self-awareness, Lowe did not really recognize that this issue has not galvanized the night in a "lightning rod" of international controversy. Lowe's decision to succumb to the Florida Association of the family is like throwing the towel in a third category of bad books.

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Going for gold in floristry at the skills 'Olympics'

Another type of Olympic Games were held in London next month - The biennial competition WorldSkills

While many people his age are clubs, florist Victoria Richards spends all his free time in a caravan in the garden of his grandmother, the practice of different designs and techniques. Richards, 22, is one of 43 young people selected to represent Great Britain in international competition the greatest powers in the world, to be held in London next month.

skills Nicknamed "Olympic Games", WorldSkills 2011 in London brings together youth from around the world to compete in their skills, barber chosen car repair or construction of robots against the clock before a live audience.

as a finalist in the category of florists, Richards will spend two days in an exhibition to bring together young people and 18 other candidates from around the world, the tasks that could include anything from making a bridal bouquet to decorate a garment with petals and leaves. "To be prepared you need for all kinds of flowers and all kinds of materials as soon as you get the invitation to tender, may decide on a model quickly," she said.

Although it may not attract the same kind of propaganda like the real Olympics, WorldSkills competitors train hard and competition as seriously as their counterparts in sports. But all is not to win medals, a good performance in WorldSkills participants can help accelerate your career and develop skills that will accompany you for life

Richards is so focused on his gold medal, was reduced to part-time hours florists in Aldridge, West Midlands, where she works.

Each week brings new deliveries of flowers, son, branches and materials provided by the practice of their sponsors, the Dutch importer of flowers and Barendson Leicester based florist sundries Whittington company. Mamie Richards offered the use of the caravan, which was equipped with shelves for all your tools and supplies florists.

Richards knows that the technique of first level is not necessarily a guarantee of a medal. As part of the pressure cooker of competition, remaining calm and focused is also vital. Like the athletes, the finalists for WorldSkills is assigned a coach (or "training manager") and taking into account a personalized training program that may include internships with top professionals, demonstrating in schools, colleges and exhibitions, and participate in other competitions.

Of the 200 that make up the initial list, survive at least a quarter of two years of grueling selection and training (including psychological) to represent the UK on the world stage.

• For many competitors, by far the most disappointing to be a finalist is exposed to the public, some can not resist trying to talk to competitors (who are not allowed to participate in the conversation) and comments on their work. "My boss sent me to the formation of a national competition for Skills in Canada so I can get an idea of ??the size and scale of the event," said Kerry McStea, which represents the UK aircraft maintenance. "There were many children of school age, some of them shouting and screaming. He gave me an idea of ??what I'm going to have to face the final and the amount of attention that I need. "

Technical

a plane high in the Royal Air Force, 23, is expected, among other things, to conduct an inspection of the blades of a jet engine and helicopter service next month at the final.

So what makes a top tiler, builder of the world first class or window? For Adam Bushnell, representing the UK in carpentry, it's a matter of accuracy and thoroughness. WorldSkills London 2011 will be asked to complete a series of tasks which could include making a door frame and the construction of a staircase. "Their internal joints must be very clean and fresh, then part of the memory is to ensure that no gaps in the wood of more than 0.3 mm. With such precise measurements would be easy to score zero for all. "

While the UK was a respectable sixth place in terms of score medals in the 2009 competition in Calgary, Canada (compared to 14 in 2007), this year, with competition held in the United Kingdom, have high hopes for success.

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The Genius in My Basement: the Biography of a Happy Man by Alexander Masters - review

The author of Stuart: A Life Backwards returns with another portrait of a friendly inadequate - this time a math prodigy who became chaotic former soloist

the time he made a successful first book by Alexander Masters, Stuart: A Life Backwards

described in the first pages. Narrator masters of the street homeless Stuart Shorter, his biographer says that the first draft of the book is "bollocks boring". No offense to teachers addition, Stuart arrives with a brilliantly simple editorial intervention. "Do it backwards," he suggests. "It's more like a detective story. The boy who was murdered? You see, spelled backwards. "Master takes advice and provides, in turn, induce an incident to determine the nature of the relationship and build an attractive narrative.

The few British publishers who care about the issue can still take notes in Stuart. Suddenly, he realized what was naturally good at writing control - the sympathy of cooperation - but acknowledged the need to reorganize around a different concept. Thus, the book became a journey back to mental disorders and suicide (Stuart died by teachers more time to take his advice) in mental health and children - to find the causes. Everything that happens in the book between the subject useful and compelling biography is shaped and defined by this structure.

Similar cooperation unravels the process in the new book Masters, who is also an inappropriate persuasive - this time, an Eton-educated mathematical prodigy whose college has fallen into chaos confinement. Norton Simon was, until 1984, considered by many of his colleagues in Cambridge for a budding genius, which works to a high of hyper-dimensional mathematics. Norton has worked with John Conway in a great work,

Atlas of finite groups

, research on group theory in search of a mathematical entity they called the "monster".

The monster - seemingly - has something to do with the nature of the universe, despite all that the readers can read and write mathematically, or need to know that one of his pursuers , a man of great powers, now living in poverty in a basement in Cambridge, obsessed with train schedules. Enter Masters, who lives on the floor as a tenant of Simon, who suggested writing his biography - similar to those he had approached Stuart is the theme of your veterinarian can the manuscript, to intervene and change

be the kind of mind that is Simon changes are not as large structural in complaints relating to facts and details, particularly regarding the status of your basement, the Woking bus routes or their campaigns against motorists. The result is a comic portrait of tender, emerging through this process of mutual exchange. Simon is a singular and remarkable man whose eccentricities can not be reduced to clichés or Asperger type of madness ("the only mental illness is an excessive desire to obey the law of the local housing"). Instead, trace the outline of a simple, irreducible, unassimilable character.

• Chaos trouble on the ground floor is a product of the mental organization of high and low. When Simon speaks often grunts, which have a variety of meanings that illustrate typography Teachers and scribbles. The two men travel together, on one occasion in Woking ("face of biographical research") and, finally, to Norway, where Simon is more reality in the maps that define the landscape. He is a man of another dimension to survive in the world with the tools of abstraction and boxes of mackerel.
a compound accumulates

master of collage as the genius of Simon, and examines the nature of genius itself (which is never achieved by a simple job, concludes, but only through " pleasure "). But the reality in which mathematics, in short, Simon was a world leader, is beyond the scope of the masters, like most of your readers. Instead, attempts to make mathematical concepts accessible by scribbling pages of illustrations. Beautiful, though, remain unequal to what is or has been, through the mind of Simon.

Own world

intellectual field
Simon. What we, as readers, are interested in what made him turn the way he did, as a "person". Unfortunately - unlike Stuart - Simon is not interested in him, his parentage (Iraqi Jewish), family, or moments of his life. His gift was clearly mathematical begotten not made, formed by genetic accident rather than the event flow.

Masters

just some events that have a narrative potential, at a time to discover the childhood bullies who want to make excuses for how they treated their foreign comrades (Simon still unknown) and dispersion of the text with the incidents of his appearance as a child prodigy Simon get a IQ score of 178 impossibly high, his victory at the start of the Olympic Games in mathematics, sometimes anecdotal, as is asked to write "bikini" in a school competition and instead of coming up with "Picquigny" (after the Anglo-French treaty of 1475).
no case, however, seems well made or defeated Simon. Innate character can inspire a fascinating portrait, but because it is resistant to influence, is the enemy of history. And while Simon is full of fun writing critique masters can not provide a structural solution in the way that Stuart did. Will not happen to Simon to be seen as the result of a psychological drama.

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This pantomime of choice has created a mess, and an awful paradox | Deborah Orr

Election

inequality is a factor. The more money and education you have, the better the choices you can make

Choice

. Run Amok, but politicians like all the same. This week, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommendation of elective cesarean sections in the NHS is a good example. Can be used with a cock-eyed in praise of the idea of ??"women's right to choose." But its main effect would be even more to increase the choice of the pantomime of the NHS is already obliged to provide. Have all the extra time had to explain to every pregnant woman that one of your options is elective cesarean section - regardless of the additional cost of actually making some -. And many hours to accumulate cheap

I use the word "pantomime" knowingly. Much of the "choice" offered by the NHS is an illusion, a waste of time and painful for patients. As a breast cancer patient recently, I made many "options", and many rooms have sitting in my options are presented to me by many consultants. I would opt for "I'm in your hands. Whatever you think best. "But he had no choice in the election.

A breast cancer patient is told in detail, for example, what are its many options for breast reconstruction are. I've never reconstructed breast. I have no experience in this field. But when I asked an expert, who had rebuilt many breasts, which in its opinion, considers that it would be better in my case, I would say that sometimes happily, sometimes the complicity (in a nod to the absurdity of our situation): "... Oh, no, I can set the options you have to decide "

had my belly fat together in a heap and pleaded "not enough" in vogue in my time the chest of currant giant half a dozen. In other appointments - you decide to chemotherapy, to decide whether or not radiation, the real choice - between surviving and dying - remained delicately explicit

options are truly important and meaningful choices. In a better, stronger local economy by providing jobs for local people and local markets for local entrepreneurs, consumers could choose from a number of local baked goods. In this world, our world of infinite possibilities that were closed because they can not compete with suppliers of vertigo, looting and supermarkets in the world, primarily by choosing small. Who is really expert in olive oil to make an informed choice among 200 olive oils? And what is the value of an option when real income is declining, and most of us will simply "choose" something expensive?

election also created political chaos. Decades have resulted in the election "is not possible." European leaders know what to do but not how to re-election when they did. The original author of this trope is unknown to me recently, but careful observation. This is why Greece has come the idea of ??a referendum on the rescue of the euro area. It is also the reason why the bailout euro area itself is relatively weak (compared to the enormity of the problem). Angela Merkel is aware of the mood of the German people, who are unhappy, to say the least, about what they see as a bailout to punish Germany for its industry and Greece for their indolence.

• a few weeks ago, the BBC's Emily Maitlis suggested, referring to the crisis in the euro area, there was a problem with "democracy". That sounds odd - a form of ordinary voters blame for the catastrophe of their leaders did. But the saddest thing is that it is an accurate description of the place in Europe and the United States they are now. What is democracy when there is no alternative, when no other option?

This is the terrible paradox

. In some respects, democracy - liberal democracy - was hoist by his own trap. On behalf of the election, financial services were deregulated. Choice promotes competition. Consumer benefits of competition. This was the idea. It did not work terribly well. The main beneficiary was the monopoly capitalism, not just in finance. The escalating fuel bills, for example, are, according to Energy Secretary, Chris Huhne, the failure of consumers not being diligent enough in the election of the investigation.

Election

inequality is a factor. This sad fact was well illustrated in Britain in recent decades. The more money and education you have, the better the choices you can make and to pay, and his position of power and privilege is enhanced. This is clearly visible especially in education, not only in terms of v's private state, but also conservative reforms of 1980 and 1990, public education.

the conservative revolution designed to transform schools, the last time, was built in the choice of parents. Schools compete for the patronage of the parents. All had improved. People forget how some schools had become the end of the last Conservative administration. Occasionally, a school that only a minority manage to send a single figure of his children in the world as an important qualification to all. In schools, the election meant that, overall, most parents engaged in some places, leaving the rest to be inhabited by children of less involved parents. The gap between more and less educated in this country has steadily increased since then.
Work made an effort to compensate within a system that naturally generates inequality. But he made no effort to change the system itself. Rankings remained. The evidence remained. Teaching to the test remained, and so the idea that education for the achievement of educational outcomes, do not feed the curious minds anxious.

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Public sector to foot bill for growth plan

Chancellor warned six years of austerity to come

George Osborne told the public sector workers and lower wages that will be the ones paying the bill for his attempts to revive the stagnant economy of Great Britain, and warned that growth lower and higher debt to force the country to support a record six years of austerity.

the eve of tomorrow's planned strike action on pensions, the chancellor put a freeze on public sector wages and reducing new financial assistance to low-wage workers to pay expenses additional schools, youth unemployment, housing and infrastructure spending.

Osborne, visited Brussels for an emergency meeting this evening with his fellow European finance ministers immediately after delivering his statement admitted that the fall and the inability to resolve the crisis in the tip of a Euro British economy is already fragile in a double-dip recession.

forecasts independent Office of Fiscal Responsibility showed that the government is on track to claim an extra £ 111 billion over the next five years, while unemployment will reach 2.8 million dollars and declining standards of living will continue to 2013. The OBR said job losses to total 710,000 public sector, compared with 400,000 who had already expected due to cuts in government spending.

Osborne prepares for the economy to grow 0.9% in 2011 to increase by only 0.7% next year - below 2.5% estimated in the budget in March . He said he expects the Bank of England to continue to support growth through low interest rates, which were 0.5% for over two and a half years, and pumping electronic money in the economy through quantitative easing. Osborne said the Treasury was now "comprehensive plans" to deal with a possible breakdown of the euro, and admitted. "If the rest of Europe heads into recession, it may be difficult to avoid in the UK"

amid fears that Europe has entered the phase of make or break your crisis, 10-year bond was Italian night approaching, the level of 8%.

The Chancellor announced a three-year spending to stimulate the potential for long-term growth of the economy, but said that the deterioration of public finances meant extra cool £ 5,000,000,000 infrastructure - an additional £ 1.2 billion for education, £ 400 for accommodation and the cost of the demolition of £ 1 billion in January increased fuel taxes and increases the limit of train fares and 6% -. We had to find savings elsewhere

caused anger among activists of the well-being through the demolition of an increase in child tax credits will result in children falling further 100,000 below the poverty line government, and was charged with causing the unions through the establishment of a two-year period at 1% cap on wage increases in the sector - well below the current inflation rate. It also marked the end of national pay bargaining in two years.

• Osborne said the current conditions of market turbulence means Britain "had to live within their means," but tonight Fitch, one of the three rating agencies warned that the coveted status AAA Britain could be at risk. "Like some other great sovereigns rated AAA, except for the establishment of measures have been adopted, the ability of UK public finances to absorb the economic and financial crisis resulting from the Public debt remains high, maintaining its "AAA" state has been largely exhausted, "he said.
• Osborne said the OBR now believes that the damage to the economy as a result of the debt crisis of 2008-09 was induced was deeper and more lasting that no thought. But the debt was down and the debt is reduced, he said. "It goes as fast as I wanted, because of damage to our economy by the ongoing financial crisis. B UT, we are ready to meet our fiscal rules. And we will see Britain through the storm debt. "

Paul Johnson, director of the Institute of Fiscal Studies Research Centre, said: "Two years of significant real reductions in public spending:. This is what the Chancellor promised in response to the deteriorated dramatically OBR macroeconomic forecasts to date, he had thought of four years of unprecedented cuts, as in modern times. Six years seems even more extraordinary. "

Ed Balls, the Chancellor of shadow, said: "After 18 months in power, the verdict is clear. Plan A has failed, and failed colossally With rising prices and rising unemployment, families, retirees and businesses that I know it hurts, and with billions more in loans to pay for rising unemployment, TODAY 'Today we learn the truth -. It's not just work "

The Conservatives were dismayed

who now have to spend in an election year pledged 15 billion pounds of additional spending cuts in the first two years of the next legislature, and recognize that they can having to go to a detailed agreement with its coalition partners before the general elections 2015 will show how both parties that the additional spending cuts in the two years following the election.

Figures released today show that the plans of the coalition that 80% of staff reductions in recent years will come from continued reductions in spending and only one fifth of the tax increases. Some right-wing conservatives have expressed their disappointment with the interventionist nature of the growth plan, compared to the work of Gordon Brown and blaming the excessive influence of the Liberal Democrats. Nick Clegg, the aid was convinced he had protected the poor in Britain, providing employment benefits and pensions have increased in line with inflation of 5%, and cutting benefits are loaded instead Credit prosecutors. The emphasis on capital investment, the breeding of two years and a program to help young unemployed people particularly as Lib Dem claimed victories.

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