This - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215389/Abandoned-parents-betrayed-schools-young-boys-turning-criminal-gangs-protection-sense-belonging.html - is without a doubt the best and most important article printed by any British newspaper in months if not years. And Harriet Sergeant is an exceptional journalist - I have seen other items by her, and she is brave as a steel sword. But I regret to say that I foresaw every word of it before I ever started blogging, and described it in my article about the Tony Blair generation two or three years ago.
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Date: 2009-09-23 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-09-23 08:02 pm (UTC)I'm actually disposed to vociferous debate by natural inclination. So I made a choice to try to keep my LJ/authorial presence detached from that -- but sometimes the spirit is weak. ;)
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Date: 2009-09-23 08:16 pm (UTC)