Chris Bowers finds that Mark Pack's recent Never Mind the Bar Charts with Duncan Brack shows striking parallels between the Liberal Democrats under Charles Kennedy’s leadership and the party today.
Peter Simons on a call by more than 30 prominent figures in critical psychiatry for the government to acknowledge the evidence that antidepressants are no better than placebos for most patients and to increase funding of social and psychological interventions while decreasing drug prescriptions.
"A decline of empathy and a rise in narcissism are exactly what we would expect to see in children who have little opportunity to play socially. Children can't learn these social skills and values in school, because school is an authoritarian, not a democratic setting. School fosters competition, not co-operation; and children there are not free to quit when others fail to respect their needs and wishes." Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure, argues Peter Gray. Without the freedom to play they will never grow up.
"Elsewhere, the universality of the situation depicted in Brief Encounter, the pull between desire and duty, family and infidelity, was lauded. Whether Laura Jesson was privileged in her home life or not faded to the immaterial as people across the country felt they could identify with her dilemma." Rose Staveley-Wadham looks at the critical reaction to Brief Encounter when it was released in 1945.
A Very Public Sociologist takes a pessimistic view of Steven Moffat's call for a British version of The West Wing.
2 comments:
If the party wants a direction to go in aim for SOCIAL HOUSING for all.Especially the young ,who have to have the bank of mum and dad to get a home for them having low wages that in no way can afford a home.
SOCIAL HOUSING NEEDS needs no deposit just walk in and use your money to stimulate retail by buying house goods.With a national linked network some one in say, Leeds renting from council finds a job in, say ,Bath can get a social home in Bath region.Solves housing and a job.
The rent the council gets provides future houses AND social services.
Have we to continue the brainwashing of house ownership where the real benefactors are the bank shareholders not the wider public?
PLAY.I used to play doctors nurses,cowboys indians with both sexes romping on the fields in my childhood.we had to arrange all sorts of things between us.ie who was going to be who.We made our own decisions and learnt to socialise in doing so.Today everything is controlled.No freedom, to make mistakes,to learn ,leading for example, to neuroticism for one mentalproblem in future life
Learning to make my own buggy.meccano toys.Airfix models,figuring out the instructions etc .Non controlled learning.
Watching mum cook and picking up cooking ideas, making a mess risking being burned.learned caution,what not to do etc.Learning without knowing it.All now controlled, restricted Things that build up confidence in yourself.Make mistakes but brush them off and start again and not feel inferior.The adventure of learning OUTSIDE of school.
To end--Get cooking back on all school curriculums!
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