King's Evangelical Divinity School
19 January 2010
Where has the common sense gone?
Unbelievable story (and not an hysterical report appearing in a tabloid). Please tell me, where has common sense gone in this country? I was going to make a joke about incompetent bafoonery, but decided against it just in case I might be arrested and given a lifelong ban from blogging (perhaps that is their aim?). And to think, when I read Wells' 1984 as a teenager the concept of "thought crime" seemed so unrealistic, dark, distant... so un-British. A good ticking-off yes, even a stiff fine. But arrested, banned (the new British disease) for life from the airport, held for hours in a cell for hours, computers seized? Certainly not. Kind of feel ready to move back to southern Spain, where I was brought up under the Franco regime (the secret police watched us and kept files on our dissenting Protestant activities). At least they had better weather. If you have to put up with stupidity, might as well do it in the sun :)
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Spain, where I was brought up under the Franco regime (the secret police watched us and kept files on our dissenting Protestant activities). At least they had better weather. If you have to put up with stupidity, might as well do it in the sun :)
HaHa classic, you sound just like my wife, as we lived in Southern Spain for a year recently.
It's a country gone mad Calvin, it really is.
Where in Spain?
Hi, Murcia and more specifically near Mazarron.
We lived in the mountains with the Spanish and sent my (then 8yr) boy to an all Spanish school for a year, where he learnt absolutely no Spanish whatsoever (stubborn...)
Wonderful time, unfortunatley the economic crisis hit Spain before the UK as you had the twin impact of the EU removing funding as a 'developing nation' in favour of the new EU countries and on top of that, Europeans stopped going on holiday and the property market crashed.
All of this created dire circumstances for the Spanish even before there was real talk of a recession here in the UK.
Wonderful place and people and my wife has only recently stopped getting depressed everytime it rains and she thinks of Spain.
By the way, I forgot to mention that where we view Wells' 1984 as a brilliant work of fiction, you have to remember that our 'elites' view it more as a manual or manifesto....a utopia to be aspired to.....
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