Posts Tagged ‘honourable’
Three li(n)es we should all reject
"It's the system which made us do it" "All are guilty so none should be punished" "We need to respond more to the public mood — that's what this crisis is about" There are three things which, if I hear them trotted out just one more time, are going to make me scream. MP after MP (though not all MPs, but more on that in a moment) have been [...]
Why Caroline Spelman deserves a fairer hearing
BBC | How damaging is the Spelman saga?. The story in brief for those who haven't been following it: with the Conservative party rocked by a series of scandals over expenses, beginning with Derek Conway and culminating (at least so far) in the resignation of the party leader in Europe, Caroline Spelman, the party chair who has been calling MPs to [...]
Ming picks the right moment to do the honourable thing
BBC NEWS | Politics | In full: Sir Menzies resignationWith false-election fever out of the way, Menzies Campbell has picked the right moment to bring questions about his leadership to an end. There is now the maximum amount of time for a leadership contest and for the new leader to to take control of the political agenda before a 2009 election — [...]
How to write about a novel
If you're studying English literature at university, you almost certainly have to face the task which you didn't face at A-level: read a novel fairly quickly, and write about it without a term of teaching. And it's a daunting task.Novels, as I've mentioned elsewhere, are the dominant form of modern English literature. In fact, they are so dominant [...]
