EVERY RECORD SOUNDS THE SAME

Madonna pitches an accurate critique of her latest track as song lyrics.

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TO SPEAK A SINGLE LANGUAGE IS TO BE ENCLOSED IN ONE CULTURAL POSSIBILITY

The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) has released figures for the amount of applicants to UK university courses during the past year. The data indicates that the amount of applicants is down 7.4% overall. Amongst the general decline in many courses, applications to study European language are down by 11.2 per cent, those to non-European languages are down by 21.5 per cent. Are these figures adequate to mark a growing dissinterest among the British toward learning modern foreign languages?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/05/will-hutton-learn-foreign-languages

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ANALYSE, WRITE COHERENTLY, THINK QUANTITATIVELY: VOCATIONAL SUBJECTS CAN DEVELOP ALL THE SKILLS LISTED ABOVE

The government have acted on the advice delivered in last year's Wolf Review. Their decision to stop many vocational qualifications having GCSE equivalence will soon be coming into force. Read closely some comments by Alison Wolf and pair them against the government agenda. Is this move heavy-handed?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/jan/31/gcses-gcse-equivalent-qualifications-reduced

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OF COURSE REWARDS FOR FAILURE ARE UNACCEPTABLE

George Osborne speaks some truths and makes other, more fanciful, claims.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-16937804

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YOU CAN'T STRIP AWAY A FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT

A poignant phrase. A federal court in California have deemed the state-wide ban on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/feb/07/prop-8-california-gay-marriage-ban-struck-down

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IF POLICY IS NOT BASED ON PRINCIPLE BUT INDIVIDUALS, THE GOVERNMENT WILL CARRY ON BEING BLOWN IN THE WIND.

Ex-chancellor Alistair Darling suggests that the Government's decision to strip Fred Goodwin of his knighthood is nothing more than tokenism and rash misdirection.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/uk-politics-video/9054486/Alistair-Darling-Fred-Goodwin-annulment-leaves-a-bad-taste.html


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FORNICATING HIPPIES

Let's see if we can jazz Boris Johnson's slur up a little shall we?

Those who look at others as simple, two-dimensional caricatures fuel the rage of the dispossessed.

So London Mayor Boris Johnson has flung more mud at London's Occupiers. It seems the protesters now accrue "fornicating hippies" to their ever-expanding set of identities. As Patrick Kingsley observes, this latest flurry is hardly the most scathing of Johnson's attacks. His commentary is laughably out of touch. I'd be tempted to leave his bigotry for humour to expose were it not for his standing as a high-profile public official. Given the man's position there is nothing funny to be seen in his words. Much the opposite.

One wonders if the caricatures often painted of Boris aren't enough in themselves to discourage his small-minded, quick-tongued venom.