How can the BBC run Ed Reardon without a blush?
FROM NOW ON THERE'LL BE A NEW BLOG EACH DAY HERE
With three other freelance hacks, I listened last night to the episode of Ed Reardon's Week where he chairs a stupid panel game called Cheese Cricket. And we all thought: how does the BBC run this magnificantly accurate account of the way it behaves, and not consider changing its behaviour?
Spin is all that lasts
History, my old history teacher Dr Warren used to say, is what one historian copies from another. I see the story that Hitler fought bravely for his country in the first world war and was admired by his comrades, has just been exploded in a new book by Dr Thomas Weber of Aberdeen University. The myth lasted nigh on a century - because it's what Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf.
And I'm sorry to see the myth that Oswald Mosley was not really very anti-Semitic is repeated in an otherwise excellent book about the Greene family (Shades of Greene by Jeremy Lewis).
Gallantly, I'll help Catherine Bennett off the commode
There’s a lot of cross baby boomers out there, harrumphing at my betrayal of my own generation in my new book, What Did the Baby Boomers Ever Do For Us?
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No one's watching Mr Gove
The decline of education journalism is worse than I thought. Last week’s TES led with an important story about how Michael Gove is taking money from schools’ technology budgets to finance his free schools. And not a single national paper picked it up.
Children should think what they're told to think
Former Chief Inspector of Schools Chris Woodhead has called for children to be taught literature uncritically.