I take it that the joke about the missing two letters at the front has been done?

No it hasn't -so you get the kudos.

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Sick Left-wing Zealot.

The MoS doing Gove's work:

The black Florence Nightingale and the making of a PC myth: One historian explains how Mary Seacole's story never stood up

The historian, Lynn Macdonald, is a defender of Nightingale. She has already published these same anti-Seacole opinions in the Guardian and History Today. Her argument is rebutted here:


This bit is true:


Yet not long ago, the same Daily Mail noted that Seacole:

This story is part of a concerted campaign by the Tories and their friends to discredit black history as 'politically correct' and false. What's interesting about Seacole (and Nightingale) isn't so much the details of what she did, but of the obstacles she had to overcome in order to do it. Gove and the Mail are happier with simple narratives that paint black people as tragic victims or unhappy savages awaiting the civilising influence of white imperialism. It upsets them that schoolchildren are taught about a woman whose direct impact on the Crimean war was quite limited, but whose actions may transform the way we think about black people's participation in politics, from the nineteenth century to today. I mean, how can you put a date on that?

Not many comments, but the nutters have started to come out of the woodwork:

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"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."
Voltaire

Unfortunately the Mail has to make everything a pointless competition: they can't see recognising black history alongside white history as just that, the two being recognised simultaneously; they can only see it as black history replacing white history.

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"Stop making up quotes and attributing them to me" - Voltaire

Seeing things in a black and white manner eh? Well, that pretty much sums up the Mail's view on everything, doesn't it?

As mentioned elsewhere, it's a common idea among the right to think of one person or group gaining status at the expense of another - such as Enoch Powell's 'black man holding the whip hand over the white man' - compare and contrast with MLK's idea of people sitting down to eat together. So if one group is promoted, they reason the other must be in some way disenfranchised or eclipsed.

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Ten seconds... the pain begins.

Fifteen seconds... you can't breathe.

Twenty seconds... you give up and turn off the Jeremy Vine show.

Monumental deceit: How our politicians have lied and lied about the true purpose of the European behemoth

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... emoth.html

This well worn old chestnut about how 'traitor Heath' fooled a naive Britain is recycled this week by self styled 'investigative journalist' Christopher Booker.
Booker is a third rate polemecist who revered in right wing Mail circles an fine historian and Woodward and Bernstein rolled into one.

He reminds of us how his towering "comprehensively researched history of the ‘European project,’ " which revealed to an ignorant world the real plans of the EU devised by 'Frenchman' Jean Monnet.

Much to pick apart in the article but most amusing is that not only was Monnet a Frenchman and the secret planner of the United States of Europe but has helped Mail readers understand more about his distinguished career by correctly noting that after World War II 'the second most powerful man in France.'

Stragnely there is no mention of of the most powerful man in France at the time or the empty chairs crisis of 1966 which moulded the inter-govemental shape of the EU ever since.

Booker is also keen on anti climate change conspiracy theories, which are no doubt the result of secret world government cabals.