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<br />Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-22796820806697281092011-08-26T11:10:00.000-07:002011-08-26T11:29:33.839-07:00A stroll through London<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4cAH-OcKoBYX8nQ_C3F4owUbGG37NjcYZugSHPmFzfT0VThe4L1CO3ESz3x75uhHHbhTI4qOOYj8ZJxoN0uVMZ2M3yz4JJtz_-h1RMidjYDt9zYKX7Xy_sz1aJf_TZH4lnxKkUvOutjW9/s1600/London+Summer+2011+056.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4cAH-OcKoBYX8nQ_C3F4owUbGG37NjcYZugSHPmFzfT0VThe4L1CO3ESz3x75uhHHbhTI4qOOYj8ZJxoN0uVMZ2M3yz4JJtz_-h1RMidjYDt9zYKX7Xy_sz1aJf_TZH4lnxKkUvOutjW9/s320/London+Summer+2011+056.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645232881081784770" /></a>
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<br /></div><div>These pictures document some time spent walking around The Thames area with a friend in London. From bridges to castles, from towers to museums, London impressed. Here are a selection of views of these moments.</div><div>
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<br /></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-15258954075874390422011-08-26T10:53:00.000-07:002011-08-26T11:07:08.358-07:00A walk in London<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2egUA5Xb7R5Jvkxuc35PKfAmWO0oj93RbTIrdiz6mxmgxudjLJp0jvTvC112lSE50HAF3KbQCq8u0ge4-fdyrm2Yl2NbdvSjvf4GMEMSiTktwz4loHLr042AjIMzDkKKYYqpbbGgE__ZY/s1600/London+Summer+2011+020.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2egUA5Xb7R5Jvkxuc35PKfAmWO0oj93RbTIrdiz6mxmgxudjLJp0jvTvC112lSE50HAF3KbQCq8u0ge4-fdyrm2Yl2NbdvSjvf4GMEMSiTktwz4loHLr042AjIMzDkKKYYqpbbGgE__ZY/s320/London+Summer+2011+020.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5645227595562657154" /></a>
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<br /></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-23296704571789326442011-08-20T03:04:00.001-07:002011-08-20T03:17:29.319-07:00Arrival at the Isles of Scilly<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtspaI2KIXAo1qkhf6HMUqzDUAz890G6WvQb3wwKk3DhbbrTrJhYB11OhVybW5K6oAUYBIUJ8bDhLGog43JvqWSmJPe6mZQiD2AuY5Vp7GpioyE4tK1B5Wk0g9nP3Y-o34Aem8ClfE_1T/s1600/Cornwall+%2526+Ireland+2011+133.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVtspaI2KIXAo1qkhf6HMUqzDUAz890G6WvQb3wwKk3DhbbrTrJhYB11OhVybW5K6oAUYBIUJ8bDhLGog43JvqWSmJPe6mZQiD2AuY5Vp7GpioyE4tK1B5Wk0g9nP3Y-o34Aem8ClfE_1T/s320/Cornwall+%2526+Ireland+2011+133.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5642880089087899266" /></a>
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<br />Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-51843567656000669782011-08-17T05:19:00.000-07:002011-08-17T05:44:19.163-07:00Pubs in Cork<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWba8LX5TQNAYuvLZfspKmTjbpVSECIr7zdbYEBRE7ou1rX-ZRWdsrfB7-KrnUq7U2fw6w0zvkEUTqjq23jeP1N19au3HP5YEhRCDMOX_ZRqiGDQrHy6Ccce0RLcKEPCPQ8neymGGQa34/s1600/Cornwall+%2526+Ireland+2011+044.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWba8LX5TQNAYuvLZfspKmTjbpVSECIr7zdbYEBRE7ou1rX-ZRWdsrfB7-KrnUq7U2fw6w0zvkEUTqjq23jeP1N19au3HP5YEhRCDMOX_ZRqiGDQrHy6Ccce0RLcKEPCPQ8neymGGQa34/s320/Cornwall+%2526+Ireland+2011+044.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641803888845985666" /></a>
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<br />Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-69554007646518377992011-08-17T03:47:00.000-07:002011-08-17T04:08:33.744-07:00Clotted Cream<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dxhmPE6nfM45aSBBbTILDoQihdnOzzl5u8_uxC14RYwG_pgjS8VoaYtG2SW_VrV0jCIyuS5eyCLc61tbAGWoEIEp22vW-5jkA4pbAYsK1wUBwXL5mmOJKni3L_oPeXzCba3N6DAQKdrQ/s1600/Cornwall+%2526+Ireland+2011+097.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0dxhmPE6nfM45aSBBbTILDoQihdnOzzl5u8_uxC14RYwG_pgjS8VoaYtG2SW_VrV0jCIyuS5eyCLc61tbAGWoEIEp22vW-5jkA4pbAYsK1wUBwXL5mmOJKni3L_oPeXzCba3N6DAQKdrQ/s320/Cornwall+%2526+Ireland+2011+097.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5641779701270504770" /></a>
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<br />Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-58491438787116465312011-07-14T07:20:00.001-07:002011-07-14T07:38:49.582-07:00What's wrong with Britain?<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">Why is it today that people in British society rejoice so often in being a victim?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">From the so called highest to the lowest each and every man and woman will scream for not only their entitlement but for sympathy and understanding. Gordon Brown has recently staked his claim to victimhood regarding what he says is unethical reporting of his family. This is denied by The Sun newspaper. This is Britain today; an ex-Prime Minister is, however, not the only one to milk tea and sympathy.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">As I understand it the Victorians were rarely like this were they? So what has happened to modern day Elizabethans?</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">At root my guess is that people today feel helpless and hopeless in an alien world and incomprehensible universe. It has always been like this of course but unlike the Victorians people no longer have a fixed moral compass for guidance.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">That compass has been stolen by the Liberal Left who have claimed the moral high ground ever since. From a Left Liberal perspective the British are to blame for much of the ill in this world. Even a Tory, David Cameron, recently jumped on this guilt ridden bandwagon and said<span id="more-16312789"></span>that the British ought to be ashamed of their history, or words to this effect. This focus on guilt has become a Left Liberal mantra. It is, however, entirely wrong.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">From Slavery to Napoleon to Nazism the British have usually stood first and/or tallest in this world when it has come to confronting tyranny. But what child in today’s British State school system is ever made aware of this?</p></span></div><div><br /></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvV8kOp-2SUeV9GpMenIh3ToMgPqSK3kMbQ-8uH-piWi7n_xIyZC5PBv40CwmOzWP1K1_VE6tI3nnEKwXrk5G9Ljr6-WPzZ4ZutCpSjOW4U9Jtmli3777pO7kTZFRkJzSn58VaOVvf282/s1600/London+May+2009+066.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgvV8kOp-2SUeV9GpMenIh3ToMgPqSK3kMbQ-8uH-piWi7n_xIyZC5PBv40CwmOzWP1K1_VE6tI3nnEKwXrk5G9Ljr6-WPzZ4ZutCpSjOW4U9Jtmli3777pO7kTZFRkJzSn58VaOVvf282/s320/London+May+2009+066.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5629216389234647266" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">The Left have brainwashed British society for too long. It is about time the British reclaimed their history from those who have not a clue about anything except a sense of perceived guilt. The legacy of the Left is victimhood.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">The legacy of the Victorians, however, is all around us in the form of buildings, communications, faith and so on. The Left have done their level best to ruin Britain. Time for a change. A change to the way things were. Of course, there will be those who will say that, “you cannot put the clock back”. The simple and obvious answer is, “yes you can”.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">These words of G.K. Chesterton are more fully explained here:</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">‘A clock, being a piece of human construction, can be restored by the human finger to any figure or hour. In the same way society being a piece of human construction , can be reconstructed upon any plan that has ever existed. There is another proverb, “As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it”; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.”</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">The Victorians had the confidence to lead the world. They inspired the world. The world of today has grown largely influenced by the Victorians. British Victorians. The Left have, ever since, attempted to make the people of Britain feel guilty for this. It is time to tell the Left where to go.</p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p></span></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-85610120348245131622011-06-27T23:55:00.000-07:002011-06-27T23:58:08.858-07:00Something sacred<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">Nobby, </span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">Having spoken to you for a number of years now and having read some of your blogs,it seems to me that many of your views are very similar to those of the BNP. Don't get me wrong, I'm not being facetious or having a go or anything like that. But would it ever occur to you to vote for them and if not why not?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; ">Hi mate, UKiP yes. BNP no. The difference is that the BNP are essentially Socialist and, dare I say it, a touch racist. I understand how white van man feels and many ordinary people feel marginalized by a left liberal elite that hardly cares about them. So I understand the BNP and their support but it is a desperate place to be. I understand but do not agree with their views even on the economy. If I attend Mass I feel more in common with, say, the Indian Catholic than I do with the White secularized Labour voting atheist. So no this is not about race but about identity. It is not, in my view, for the British State to promote different cultural identities - this is what Multiculturalism is all about. Ultimately Multiculturalism will fracture nations unless they have a strong left liberal centre which restricts free speech. I see free speech as something sacred. Does this help?</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Thanks Nobby, I can now see exactly where you are coming from.And yes,I too see free speech as something sacred. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px; "><br /></span></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-21829654919692943252011-06-17T11:32:00.000-07:002011-06-17T12:35:57.583-07:00Images of Oman<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsd_VNBzLsPtE_aF683xPv4y2TNc1k3oy-SEjuFknkBfQ46CbWxfdudT8_NoVcKq5RDySwD1f9b1efNyBcELFtn_LMDXRIiPoBLH-k1dYVC5Eb2LVbJT8WbIxqHl196aibuxQOp4rAsjv/s1600/Oman+Winter+2011+043.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimsd_VNBzLsPtE_aF683xPv4y2TNc1k3oy-SEjuFknkBfQ46CbWxfdudT8_NoVcKq5RDySwD1f9b1efNyBcELFtn_LMDXRIiPoBLH-k1dYVC5Eb2LVbJT8WbIxqHl196aibuxQOp4rAsjv/s320/Oman+Winter+2011+043.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619274360820872898" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoz64c3nr796Ks1KEbZf8f2t01hTlMf5Vi6zk7ETO6WiEqXTJxIuKJvOHVjE1U9BrzsyR7fNqKD-WRU0TJsw36UuO2gnPTabwashJKmUbYC4lEltiPKQHyL3mJLq7iGfkHkA69mkwCSpy_/s1600/Oman+Winter+2011+117.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; 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margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJVppByb5vOzbrEyhu1gbHadVN8bzVyCqPjwPNJUHKInUDgB7NgvTXHbWqXWIXXlI4S7AcPDOdtmh5gMGToPr6tkzq2hsv1z8hikhWHkOg5DLesbhIiiwe28xx5FFMa5sDVuZI4OF_aNGm/s320/Oman+Winter+2011+118.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5619259389907591954" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></div></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-54898280436560451862011-05-22T11:31:00.000-07:002011-05-22T11:34:47.154-07:00Political correctness<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">"In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is...in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to."</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; ">Theodore Dalrymple.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(24, 24, 24); font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px; "><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dalrymple">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Dalrymple</a></span></span></span></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-50577953846975663762011-05-05T20:53:00.000-07:002011-05-06T01:37:28.985-07:00Delusions of the Left<span class="Apple-style-span"><p style="line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Over the years I have met and debated with many representatives of a Left Wing point of view. As human beings, as people, as friends they are often not just good representatives of the Left but of human kindness itself. But with regards to understanding world history or politics I think they are deluded. Here are my reasons:</span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">1. From the 1930’s onwards left leaning members of the Labour Party were keen on promoting good relations with the Soviet Union. In fact many British Trade Union leaders have walked down this path for decades after believing that Communism was the promised land. As history unfolded the Left's naivety beckoned.</span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">2. In the 1970’s it was clear to me that The Left considered that the environment was the main way to understand the nature of Man. I had decided at that time that depending on each individual a person is usually governed by both environment and genetics. The latest thinking on nature nurture debate has<span id="more-16312733"></span> shifted the ground from what the Left generally thought to be the case. Genetics and DNA have broken new ground in understanding the nature of Man.</span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; ">3. Economically, The Left lost the argument in the 1980’s when Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan took charge of economies which at that time needed regeneration and good governance. Both leaders influenced the history of the world by contributing to the downfall of the Soviet Union. At this time the Left were still in thrall to Socialism and under Michael Foot wanted to disarm unilaterally British nuclear defence. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;">Had this Labour policy been implemented the implications for the world do not bear thinking about.</span></span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">4. The latest economic crisis has arisen largely because of politically correct left liberal ideology in America leading to a sub prime mortgage collapse and, as far as Britain is concerned, Gordon Brown’s de-regulation of the banking sector. The Left argue that “it was the banks fault” without any regard for the aforementioned reasons. Sure the banks played their part by exacerbating human greed but the real reasons the reasons that matter are for all to see.</span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">5. Multiculturalism. I have met intelligent Left thinking people who seriously argue that Britain has always been a multicultural nation. Honestly. Their reasoning is that the Vikings followed a different religion to the native British and so on. When people are as deluded as this questions must be asked. Multiculturalism is about the preservation (by the state) of different cultural identities. I hardly think that the Vikings had this in mind. A better argument might be the Romans but this would lead to discussions about the benefits of Imperialism and I do not think the Left would support that. Incidentally, the word Multiculturalism originated in about 1960.</span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">6. Having argued that the context of Multiculturalism is usually understood to be a modern phenomenon – the process of Europeanization around the world is one main reason – it is significant that the leaders of Britain, Germany and France have recently admitted that this social engineering project has been an abject failure. I wrote about this probability on MyT nearly four years ago and asked for a referendum on the subject when writing my first ever blog. You can imagine the Left Wing response. But yet again the Left are shown to be not only deluded but wrong.</span></p><p style="line-height: 16px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "></span></p><div class="content" style="line-height: 1.38em; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">7. Similarly, with the European Union. Until Jacque Delors gave a speech to the British Trade Unions in the late 1980’s The Left were mainly against the EU. But that all changed and the New Labour leader, Tony Blair, wanted to adopt the Euro as British currency. If it wasn’t for the ongoing clash of personality between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair the Euro may well have replaced Sterling. Then attempts to deal with the debt problem would be similar to those in the Republic of Ireland where current options are severely limited. The Left largely supported more and more European Union and those who objected who were mainly so called Tory sceptics were often portrayed as ‘little Englanders’. The Left got it wrong yet again. They are deluded.</span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">On a more personal level, I was called a coward by someone I work with for using a pseudonym. I had thought this good practice since the likes of George Orwell or George Elliot and others before them have done likewise. So I wondered does anyone else consider themselves “a coward” for preferring blogging anonymity?</span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span">Given that the police in the UK has been politicized by the Left I would have thought this</span><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"> made common sense. But what do you think?</span><span class="Apple-style-span"> </span></span></p><p></p><div class="cl" style="font-size: 1.2em; font-family: arial, sans-serif; clear: both; visibility: hidden; height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "></div></div></span><p></p><p></p>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-79156149165179359382011-05-05T08:14:00.001-07:002011-05-05T08:18:53.779-07:00Immigration into the UK<div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" ><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The Guardian newspaper recently posted this information on immigration:</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">“Since the year 2000 to June 2010 it is estimated that 572,000, people came into the UK. This figure has remained broadly the same since 2004.”</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The way this information is presented appeared misleading and/or ambiguous. So I contacted MigrationwatchUK <a href="http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/" style="text-decoration: none; ">http://www.migrationwatchuk.org/</a></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">This is their response:</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">“Thank you for your email and for taking the time to write to us.</p></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >There has been a swell of interest in the numbers of people coming to the UK since Cameron made his speech which is excellent as there is a lot of misinformation out there.</span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" >I have taken data from the Office for National Statistics who compile the data on Long-term international migration, which gives us a good idea of the number of people leaving, coming in, and the net figure. Below are some figures for you:</span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br />Total number of people coming into the UK<br />1997 – 327,000<br />1998 – 391,000<br />1999 – 454,000<br />2000 – 479,000<br />2001 – 481,000<br />2002 – 516,000<br />2003 – 511,000<br />2004 – 589,000<br />2005 – 567,000<br />2006 – 596,000<br />2007 – 574,000<br />2008 – 590,000<br />2009 – 567,000<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >So as you can see, over the period of 1997 to 2009 there has been a massive increase in the number of people coming to the UK. Of course these are offset in numbers terms by those emigrating. If we take these numbers into account we get a net migration which is either positive or negative, depending on whether more people came than left. Net migration has been high for a number of years. In 1996 net migration was +55,000. This figure hit +245,000 in 2004 and for the year June 1009 – June 2010, net migration was +226,000.<br />Annual statistics on migration will be released in August of this year for the year 2010.<br /><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" >I hope this is of help to you.”</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br />See link for details on how the Guardian presents this information:</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" ><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jun/26/non-eu-immigration-uk-statistics?commentpage=2#start-of-comments" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(35, 75, 123); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(164, 164, 164); ">http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/jun/26/non-eu-immigration-uk-statistics?commentpage=2#start-of-comments</a></span></span></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-18759649277139615932011-04-28T02:37:00.000-07:002011-04-28T03:25:39.017-07:00My England<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRV1pDd-_l9hNmnFtzjN4XO0v_aNOvn3DnVc3k6Mk8OB1rFUhw9gLLi11HfFoa2RR9DT1WmZ4XppIYK_CyX1BNeL-P2AlBwCIuyu2NfJQknrsa7_6tVbG4ntutDDvBaU5w_j-iXOnW0xJX/s1600/Rustaq%252C+Oman.+March+2011+004.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRV1pDd-_l9hNmnFtzjN4XO0v_aNOvn3DnVc3k6Mk8OB1rFUhw9gLLi11HfFoa2RR9DT1WmZ4XppIYK_CyX1BNeL-P2AlBwCIuyu2NfJQknrsa7_6tVbG4ntutDDvBaU5w_j-iXOnW0xJX/s320/Rustaq%252C+Oman.+March+2011+004.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600569812610971666" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Every so often there is a reason to write a blog beyond saying something for the delight of one’s own ego. That occasion is now. Having just read an article on how English university campuses are being radicalized by extremist versions of Islam it has struck me how different this is to where I live now in Oman. I live in a Muslim society and I have yet to meet anyone who has appeared hostile.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Most people in Oman are friendly. Some show this stopping to give lifts to Englishmen they do not know. Some may know their history which will document the good relations Britain and Oman have shared over the years. In 1982 Oman supported Britain in a UN resolution on the Falklands conflict. British troops had helped Oman rid itself of communist insurgents from the 1950’s onwards. Evidence of this fact can be seen in the Sultan’s<span id="more-16312715"></span> Armed Forces museum in Muscat. On display are a plethora of captured Chinese and Soviet weapons. Although I felt more at home viewing the British, Enfield rifle. I digress.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Where were we? Ah yes, Islamic extremism in England. What is going on? Why is extremism flourishing in my own country and not in a Muslim country where I now live and work?</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">I have heard some say that Islamic extremism most appeals to young men who have grown up without a father to guide them in life. This sounds apologist to me – I know someone whose childhood was fatherless and a less extreme person I have yet to meet – although I do not discount it as a factor. One of many factors.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Some say that immigration to the UK has been without due care and attention taking in people without concern for qualifications and education. Gordon Brown and Tony Blair certainly cared very little about the effects of their own lack of immigration policy. About 7,000,000 immigrants have arrived in the UK since Labour took power in 1997. Another explanation. But still not the whole picture.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">There appears to be a contrast with the generally peaceful Muslim people I meet in Oman and the Muslim people who are drawn to extremism in my own country. Why?</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">British authorities have over the past few decades become more and more left liberal. More and more politically correct. More and more bending over backwards to avoid offending anyone. I recall how an Islamic extremist protest in London displaying hatred and death threats was largely ignored by the Police. The Police now appear symbolic of left liberal thinking in uniform.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Hardly surprising when one considers the issues involved arresting anyone today. We all have our rights, of course, but if you are Gay or from an ethnic minority the perception is amongst those who are not that those rights are now largely weighted in that direction. Was not a student in Oxford threatened with arrest for calling a horse gay? Are not newspapers such as the Guardian likely to scream from the rooftops as soon as they sense that ethnic rights have not been met? Who would want to be a Policeman in multicultural fractured Britain today?</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">It could be good. It certainly could be better. What is wrong?</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">People today are afraid of the answers. The Left have a stranglehold on the moral high ground. Any comment made is vetted for racism or any possible offence caused to anyone. This is not freedom. This is left liberal fascism.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Those in authority in Britain think they are doing the right thing. They are not. Not so long ago I read a book by an Indian man aged ninety nine. It was a lament for an England he knew from the 1950’s. He was an immigrant but came to love his England, his new home. An immigrant who was intelligent and hard working. He had something to offer. He was not an economic refugee looking for a free lunch or someone with a chip on his shoulder. The English have been brainwashed by decades of left liberal dogma. This is the result. A country which is powerless to do anything about the extremism in its midst because it ties itself up in knots arguing about who is most likely to be offended. If it was not so tragic it would be pathetic.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">England, get a grip.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: normal; "></span></p><div class="content" style="font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.38em; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">See link: <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8478975/University-campuses-are-hotbeds-of-Islamic-extremism.html" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(35, 75, 123); ">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8478975/University-campuses-are-hotbeds-of-Islamic-extremism.html</a></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><div class="wprp_wrapper" style="display: block; margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(20, 20, 20); text-align: right; "><div class="wprp_report_link generic-button" id="wprp_report_link_9433386"><a href="http://my.telegraph.co.uk/nobby/hdgdggd/16312715/my-england/#" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(35, 75, 123); "></a></div><div class="cl" style="clear: both; visibility: hidden; height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "></div></div><div class="cl" style="clear: both; visibility: hidden; height: 0px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; "></div></div><p></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /><br /></p></span><p></p>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-37004813962355144212011-04-27T05:33:00.000-07:002011-04-28T22:16:11.437-07:00Note for a Leftie<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQlUGrJStbswuKOWBoFCWCYkQsm8Otur7TKt52pOKfk4lymxGRuXoG0TPgaEXXICJ3qJubTXWWLg4XLjHygQOobz0aXgG3AX_a4PUl5HSD3pxxuaIo6oqAfL8slw4olwGL0n3mrDwEZOs/s1600/Rustaq%252C+Oman.+March+2011+010.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKQlUGrJStbswuKOWBoFCWCYkQsm8Otur7TKt52pOKfk4lymxGRuXoG0TPgaEXXICJ3qJubTXWWLg4XLjHygQOobz0aXgG3AX_a4PUl5HSD3pxxuaIo6oqAfL8slw4olwGL0n3mrDwEZOs/s320/Rustaq%252C+Oman.+March+2011+010.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5600869524423479618" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">It appears that those who submit to a Left Wing point of view do not like to hear the word ‘better’ in mixed company. I used this word when talking in college about one student being ‘better’ than another. </p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">No, you mean, ‘different’, they said. The conversation moved on. </p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">I did not ask whether the word different was better? </p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">But I did leave one of the Lefties this note:</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">To Do List</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">1. Refrain from unthinking conformity with prevailing fashion.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">2. Realize that moral equality is not the same thing as equality in ability.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">3. Realize that misguided thoughts are based on relativism.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">4. Be more tolerant of other people’s opinions.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p></span>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-63331810858411187392011-04-08T09:50:00.001-07:002011-04-08T09:59:32.664-07:00The Beach<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjt460HJJ52ViWE6r0OCuhBqQM-HUeNVhflCb7Sr-KniMSo7AA-AWrz7fP37eNWlzesxmm49ZTGdWCkEQ7NTd8gelY_6sMoR__yMlBx0GgIh-NrKe_zuwCi_YwqGT73uYbXrdeCx5S729/s1600/Mainly+Oman+2010+006.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjt460HJJ52ViWE6r0OCuhBqQM-HUeNVhflCb7Sr-KniMSo7AA-AWrz7fP37eNWlzesxmm49ZTGdWCkEQ7NTd8gelY_6sMoR__yMlBx0GgIh-NrKe_zuwCi_YwqGT73uYbXrdeCx5S729/s320/Mainly+Oman+2010+006.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5593257660362903762" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; "><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjt460HJJ52ViWE6r0OCuhBqQM-HUeNVhflCb7Sr-KniMSo7AA-AWrz7fP37eNWlzesxmm49ZTGdWCkEQ7NTd8gelY_6sMoR__yMlBx0GgIh-NrKe_zuwCi_YwqGT73uYbXrdeCx5S729/s1600/Mainly+Oman+2010+006.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"></a></span></span><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHjt460HJJ52ViWE6r0OCuhBqQM-HUeNVhflCb7Sr-KniMSo7AA-AWrz7fP37eNWlzesxmm49ZTGdWCkEQ7NTd8gelY_6sMoR__yMlBx0GgIh-NrKe_zuwCi_YwqGT73uYbXrdeCx5S729/s1600/Mainly+Oman+2010+006.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}">Earlier today I met up with a mate outside the local mosque and took a taxi down to the beach. We got out and walked several hundred yards talking about nothing I can remember until out of sight of a newly built hotel. Then, stepped out of clothing and into the Gulf of Oman. On the horizon small boats sailed their pristine white sails. It was a fine day.</a><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;"><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><br /></span></div></div></div></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-66964754216137083732011-04-06T21:22:00.000-07:002011-04-06T21:47:54.293-07:00FAO: David Cameron<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><strong>On a recent trip to Pakistan David Cameron is reported in the Daily Telegraph saying that: </strong><strong>"Britain has caused many of the world's problems." </strong></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><strong>Really? Is this so? </strong><strong>This is my response and have emailed it to No.10:</strong></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-weight: normal; ">Cameron has just lost any credibility I thought he may have had. What a complete twit. Does he not know that Britain fought the good fight in the early 1940's of WW2 when many others did not? </span></strong></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-weight: normal; ">Does he not realize that Great Britain was amongst the first to end the slave trade and effectively abolished the Muslim/Swahili slave trade in Africa by the introduction of a policy which was to encourage trade in goods rather than people? The Royal Navy enforced this policy on the high seas stopping the Dutch and anyone else who traded in slaves rather than goods.<br /><br />Was it not Ghandi, as Indian nationalist, a catalyst for the events which later unfolded in Indian independence?<br /><br />From where I sit politicians today have not the stomach for anything much except what can be gained by saying what is deemed the fashion of the day. Unthinking conformity with prevailing fashion is now part of the British landscape.<br /><br />David Cameron is revealed as nothing more than yet another modern day apologist; he ought to be proud of British history, not ashamed of it. He presents himself as a Polly Toynbee in Tory clothing.</span></strong></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><b>Even during WW1 Ludwig Wittgenstein, the great 20th century philosopher, thought more of the English than David Cameron does:</b></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><strong>“It seems to me as good as certain that we cannot get the upper hand against England.</strong> The English — the best race in the world — <em>cannot</em> lose! We, however, can lose and shall lose, if not this year then next year. The thought that our race is going to be beaten depresses me terribly, because I am completely German.”</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">See link:</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8430899/David-Cameron-Britain-caused-many-of-the-worlds-problems.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/david-cameron/8430899/David-Cameron-Britain-caused-many-of-the-worlds-problems.html</a></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p></span>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-89800185394690321822011-03-24T08:07:00.000-07:002011-03-24T08:58:10.611-07:00The Fox's Prophecy (written in 1870)"For not upon these hills alone<br />The doom of sport shall fall;<br />O'er the broad face of England creeps<br />The shadow on the wall.<br /><br />"The years roll on: old manors change,<br />Old customs lose their sway;<br />New fashions rule; the grandsire's garb<br />Moves ridicule to-day.<br /><br />"The woodlands where my race has bred<br />Unto the axe shall yield;<br /><b>Hedgerow and copse shall cease to shade<br />The ever widening field.<br /></b><br />"The manly sports of England<br />Shall vanish one by one;<br />The manly blood of England<br />In weaker veins shall run.<br /><br />"The furzy down, the moorland heath,<br />The steam plough shall invade;<br />Nor park nor manor shall escape -<br />Common, nor forest glade.<br /><br /><b>"Degenerate sons of manlier sires<br />To lower joys shall fall;<br />The faithless lore of Germany,<br />The gilded vice of Gaul.</b><br /><br />"The sports of their forefathers<br />To baser tastes shall yield;<br />The vices of the town displace<br />The pleasures of the field.<br /><br />"For swiftly o'er the level shore<br />The waves of progress ride;<br />The ancient landmarks one by one<br />Shall sink beneath the tide.<br /><br /><b>"Time honoured creeds and ancient faith,<br />The Alter and the Crown,<br />Lordship's hereditary right,<br />Before that tide go down.<br /><br />"Base churls shall mock the mighty names<br />Writ on the roll of time;<br />Religion shall be held a jest,<br />And loyalty a crime.<br /><br />"No word of prayer, no hmyn of praise<br />Sound in the village school;<br />The people's education<br />Utilitarians rule.</b><br /><br />"In England's ancient pulpits<br />Lay orators shall preach<br /><b>New creeds, and free religions<br />Self made apostles teach.</b><br /><br />"The peasants to their daily tasks<br />In surly silence fall;<br />No kindly hospitalities<br />In farmhouse nor in hall.<br /><br />"Nor harvest feast nor Christmas tide<br />Shall farm or manor hold;<br /><b>Science alone can plenty give,<br />The only God is gold.</b><br /><br />"The homes where love and peace should dwell<br />Fierce politics shall vex,<br /><b>And unsexed woman strive to prove<br />Herself the coarser sex.<br /></b><br />"Mechanics in their workshops<br />Affairs of state decide;<br />Honour and truth - old fashioned words -<br />The noisy mob deride.<br /><br /><b>"The statesman that should rule the realm<br />Coarse demagogues displace;<br />The glory of a thousand years<br />Shall end in foul disgrace.</b><br /><br />The honour of old England,<br />Cotton shall buy and sell,<br />And hardware manufacturers<br />Cry "Peace - lo, all is well".<br /><br />Trade shall be held the only good<br />And gain the sole device;<br />The statesman's maxim shall be peace,<br />and peace at any price.<br /><br /><b>"Her army and her navy<br />Britain shall cast aside;<br /></b>Soldiers and ships are costly things,<br />Defence an empty pride.<br /><br />"The German and the Muscovite<br />Shall rule the narrow seas;<br />Old England's flag shall cease to float<br />In triumph on the breeze.<br /><br /><b>"The footsteps of th' invader,<br />Then England's shore shall know,<br />While home-bred traitors give the hand<br />To England's every foe.<br /><br />"Disarmed, before the foreigner,<br />The knee shall humbly bend,<br />And yield the treasures that she lacked<br />The wisdom to defend.</b><br /><br />"But not for aye - yet once again,<br />When purged by fire and sword,<br /><b>The land her freedom shall regain,<br />To manlier thoughts restored.<br /><br />"Taught wisdom by disaster,<br />England shall learn to know,<br />That trade is not the only gain<br />Heaven gives to man below.<br /></b><br />"The greed for gold departed<br />The golden calf cast down,<br />Old England's sons shall raise again<br />The Alter and the Crown.<br /><br />"Rejoicing seas shall welcome<br />Their mistress once again;<br /><b>Once more the banner of St George<br />Shall rule upon the main.<br /><br />"The blood of the invader<br />Her pastures shall manure,<br />His bones unburied on her fields<br />For monuments to endure.</b><br /><br />"Again in hall and homestead,<br />Shall joy and peace be seen,<br />And smiling children raise again<br />The maypole on the green.<br /><br />"Again the hospitable board<br />Shall groan with Christmas cheer,<br />And mutual service bind again<br />The peasant and the peer.<br /><br />"Again the smiling hedgerow<br />Shall field from field divide;<br />Again among the woodlands<br />The scarlet troop shall ride."<br /><br />Again it seemed that aged fox,<br />More prophecies would say,<br />When sudden came upon the wind,<br />"Hark forrard, gone away".Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-91100526840929025412011-03-24T00:14:00.000-07:002011-03-24T02:33:14.506-07:00Images of Oman: 2<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" 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/></div><div><br /></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-44595462871633524492011-03-23T05:43:00.000-07:002011-03-24T22:18:23.631-07:00Orwell the fraud?<span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span">No, George Orwell wasn't a fraud. Orwell was never a fraud. But he faked it until he made it. For instance he changed his name from Eric Blair and faked his accent in a way PM Tony Blair would be proud of when talking to the plebs all those years ago by adapting his vowels to what is now called, 'mockney'. </span><span class="Apple-style-span">Unlike Tony Blair, Eric Blair would have been dead against the war in Iraq. But let us keep to his later name of George Orwell.</span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span">I like Orwell. I have done since reading Down and Out in Paris & London in my formative years. However, my take on the man has now been influenced by my reading of an acclaimed biography by D. J. Taylor. This is not a book review but a review of Orwell as seen through a biographical prism written nearly a decade ago.</span><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial; "><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="Apple-style-span"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: 17px; font-family: Arial; ">Does your increased knowledge of his life and personality alter your appreciation of his literary work? a friend asks.</span><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "> </span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Well, I think it does. But not in the way I expected. My opinion of Orwell is affected by having some knowledge of his family and upbringing. He seems to personify what has become of the BBC today. Left Wing and full of guilt about their Middle Class identity. So what you get in the end is, I believe, a form of psychological compensation rather than truth. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "> </span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Orwell's father worked in the opium trade in India. This was the British Raj of the late 19th century. After leaving Eton, Orwell signed up as an Imperial Policeman in Burma. Here he would experience killing an Elephant or at least eventually write about the experience. </span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">After about seven years telling Burmese people what to do Orwell arrived back in England and decided that he would live and breathe amongst the working classes occasionally faking his accent to be accepted as one of them. Nevertheless many ordinary people realized that this tall strange man was somehow different and called him "sir" despite themselves. </span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">But what motivated Orwell? </span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Many things, but guilt may have played its part in shaping his character which may have been the reason for a self pitying essay he once wrote which detailed an emotionally blighted education at a Prep school prior to obtaining an Eton scholarship. </span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">After some investigation by the author, however, it turned out that Orwell magnified his grievances by a smaller or larger degree. For me it was the same old story of someone gaining a great education, finding success, and then saying such an education ought to banned. </span></div></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Orwell complains about his childhood education; but it seems to me that without it he would have struggled to have made an impact in this world. </span></div></span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; line-height: normal; "><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; display: inline !important; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div></span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(38, 38, 38); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "> </span></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Orwell's biography reads differently. I liked his sense of independence although even this is tempered by the fact that he remained dependent on his parents for a long time - they would send him ten bob every now and then while he was writing about how hard it was to exist on a pittance while down and out in Paris and London - until the age of thirty five Orwell lived in the north Suffolk coastal town of Southwold, sometimes privately teaching local children.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "> </span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">What I did not know was that Orwell was a bit of a womanizer and cheated on his wife. Many times. In fact he asked her if she would accept his being with a 15 or 16 year Arab prostitute while on holiday in Marrakesh in Morocco. Apparently, his wife relented and the prostitute consented.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Now I would not wish to throw the first stone for reasons obvious to anyone with a degree in human nature but for someone who is often described by the Left as a secular saint I find all this at odds with sainthood unless the definition has changed in which case I would like my application to be considered with immediate effect.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Then there is the writing. Animal Farm is a brilliant fable which revealed something of the nature of communism - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">the reality of Soviet communism confronted Orwell in 1936 whilst fighting for the Republicans in Spain - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">which previous Western governments appeared at the time unable or unwilling to expose. In this sense Orwell shaped the modern world and can be considered as influential as Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul in defeating Soviet communist tyranny.</span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; "><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 17px; font-family: 'Segoe UI', Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; "><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; ">Personally, I think Orwell revealed a world previously unthought of in an earlier book, 'Down and Out in Paris & London'. This was an account of days out tramping about two cities exploring life and inspiring social conscience at the same time. Not a bad combination for a good man but like many before and after, he certainly was no saint.</span></div></span></span></div></div></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-11911598323971642962011-03-19T03:15:00.000-07:002011-03-19T03:17:36.414-07:00The disUnited Kingdom<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(64, 64, 64); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; ">You delude yourself with thoughts on my opinion. Most of my friends are or have been Labour voters but even some of them have had to leave inner city areas of London because of falling educational standards and/or intimidation. It is all very well with you lecturing me about love thy neighbour or at least what is probably your own secularized left liberal version of this but in what town or street do you live? and what do you tolerate everyday in your life? Not everyone can be conveniently labelled as ‘a Nazi’ just because they happen to disagree with Multiculturalism; a project of social engineering abused by the last Labour goverment for purposes of creating their own client state. I recall a country without hardly any of these issues or problems and in many ways it was a better society for that. My father escaped three Nazi bombs in<span id="more-16312674"></span> his London childhood and remembers the speeches of Winston Churchill as they were heard throughout the community of that time. He misses this age of respect and duty when no one screamed about their rights or about racism because there was no immediate reason to do so. That was when there was a sense of belonging and identity. A shared sense of history. Shared values too. But you seem to care very little about any of this preferring to focus on words such as: racism, genocide, bigotry, colour, violence, intolerance, etc etc. These words never meant much until the society they reflect today was forced upon the people of Britain. Still, as long as you can argue yourself to the top of the moral high ground who cares what the future brings to a fractured British society eh.</span>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-17716340295938045572011-03-15T08:08:00.000-07:002011-03-15T08:47:48.853-07:00Omani placards<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeeMSQXeQzspMWBqIavru0V-qFOt6wq_he1-uoRDFz-9ktPniC5WXBKq1LbfrtqMDK2hIOAfWvjvcqwURqfA2vz3_9NDrAzuDvmwP60Q1aGBPgM3Jg_tbYs9X0jFx-rl8Q5up6gZF_EwZ/s1600/DSC00196.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOeeMSQXeQzspMWBqIavru0V-qFOt6wq_he1-uoRDFz-9ktPniC5WXBKq1LbfrtqMDK2hIOAfWvjvcqwURqfA2vz3_9NDrAzuDvmwP60Q1aGBPgM3Jg_tbYs9X0jFx-rl8Q5up6gZF_EwZ/s320/DSC00196.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584324596477842002" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Further to the blog about yesterday's demonstration here is a picture of one of the many placards written by Omani students. It may well have been their first ever public protest and this has to be a precious thing. Some may say that there is a potential for discarding all things Western. These fears, in this instance, appear unfounded.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>see link: <a href="http://mosaic007.blogspot.com/2011/03/schools-out.html">http://mosaic007.blogspot.com/2011/03/schools-out.html</a></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-34444750360928550502011-03-15T05:04:00.000-07:002011-03-15T21:47:32.375-07:00The interior of Oman<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyHHHCeLcEUE2LSrB5dvQ4zN0eY3kbB7Zxvv3AkEWEp1FyoOmYFYzF1ZpgGDyhOVi55zcs9uzfUfe3254Fhu80P0hFdzdSdRCCEeT2GsdLFVcT8VtnCJCxLQrB6Us5a4n0XwLH0q-Sattc/s1600/DSC00196.JPG"><br /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9-y-EFjoezNWtadBPQo_6nlEitKWkD8ADxIQ0AqisD2x4V4_sl6ETHs77ade4ql5uJiN8KyyeLwEm2QWakR4eZL9RbQF0aCimsmBczd1V_EWz3UL00onrlinzbphiavONx3_cRxCUYoA/s1600/Mainly+Oman+2010+024.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF9-y-EFjoezNWtadBPQo_6nlEitKWkD8ADxIQ0AqisD2x4V4_sl6ETHs77ade4ql5uJiN8KyyeLwEm2QWakR4eZL9RbQF0aCimsmBczd1V_EWz3UL00onrlinzbphiavONx3_cRxCUYoA/s320/Mainly+Oman+2010+024.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5584285723499243122" /></a><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; "><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">How much can happen in one job? I ask the question because where I currently work has seen teachers ask: how can tomorrow top that?</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Since I arrived in Oman I have experienced sackings, resignations, arguments galore, public weeping, histrionics, strikes and now revolutions; and this is just the college where I teach English.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Add to this a public noticeboard where teachers names have been written for public consumption in the main college square. Names of teachers may have appeared in Arabic or English and were written by disaffected students to whom some grief over marking or teaching was alleged.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Yesterday morning events reached their peak when the Dean of the college was frog marched out of the college by Omani students. Finally, at high noon, all teachers were informed that they should leave the college immediately otherwise we would remain confined to barracks as it were. This has already happened elsewhere in<span id="more-16312665"></span> a nearby town so we were not about to dismiss the possibility. We all quietly left en masse.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "></span></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">This morning, and with some trepidation, we returned to work. Lessons were attended by teachers alone. Everyone else is on strike. Such are the effects of the Middle East cultural tsunami.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">There will be some in England who will see this from a particular religious context. This is because they know hardly anything about what is happening out here. What has happened has more to do with nationalism and Omanization than it has to do with anything else.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">From an Omani point of view, and this view is not held by everyone, there are simply too many foreigners in their country. Of course, events which have unfolded since the uprising in Tunisia has given permission and empowerment to Omani students who, until now, did not appear to feel that they had a voice. Now they do.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Schools out, in Oman.</p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); ">Definition of term, Omanization: </p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><a href="http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~deflu20a/classweb/omanization/omanization.html">http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~deflu20a/classweb/omanization/omanization.html</a></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p><p style="padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 1em; padding-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); "><br /></p></span><p></p>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7776713057180175118.post-22010162382176457082011-03-12T04:42:00.001-08:002011-03-12T08:13:17.648-08:00A cultural tsunami<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZvk82notdngicyKk2GDxGoFJ_JGypUK_8l_gOFqqUnTSOw1-cZcSU5-hIicFkuKzTsTYh3_atWUhjsY7FIhrf10EmrSWSfo3KWul8j4lfc6C1Sqn7ACWlenbA2kFp_z9GSB4KGe61IrN/s1600/Oman+Winter+2011+003.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQZvk82notdngicyKk2GDxGoFJ_JGypUK_8l_gOFqqUnTSOw1-cZcSU5-hIicFkuKzTsTYh3_atWUhjsY7FIhrf10EmrSWSfo3KWul8j4lfc6C1Sqn7ACWlenbA2kFp_z9GSB4KGe61IrN/s320/Oman+Winter+2011+003.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5583174047617889858" /></a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Things have been quiet until very recently. There was a riot in Sohar which was well publicized a few weeks ago. Several demonstrators died. What happened is some distance from the inland mountains where I now live here in a town in Oman where it is often far more traditional and conservative than the cosmopolitan coastal areas. However, even in this elevated position, things are changing fast. Students went on strike today asking for more money and better conditions. The strike is expected to last at least a week. Students spent the best part of of the day voicing their concerns and vocally demonstrating on the college campus. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; "><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; ">Yesterday, in a nearby restaurant, an Omani student asked an English teacher to put out his cigarette. The teacher continued smoking aware of a voice commanding obedience and an intense stare. Eventually, the teacher finishes his cigarette and leaves. This small yet telling incident revealed in a college cafe earlier this afternoon suggests to me that there is now a new-found confidence amongst young people in Oman who are just beginning to find their voice. Whether this is a voice which imitates the West or opposes it; finds its own way in the world or rejects it, remains to be seen. Nevertheless, the Arab region has created its very own cultural tsunami.</span></div><div><br /></div>Nobbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16329815721904353534noreply@blogger.com3