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Suffer the children

March 20, 2010

I’m straying somewhat outside my area of expertise here, but bear with me. Apparently, the genii responsible for all critical thought in this country have been thinking on our behalf again: Calls to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 12 have been rejected by the government. England’s children’s commissioner Maggie Atkinson had [...]

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Demonising the Inadequate.

March 7, 2010

During the 1960s it was fashionable to loudly declaim the Victorian institutions where those who did not possess the wherewithal to avoid transgressing society’s mores lived in peace and security. The inhabitants of these spacious and airy model villages were described as being ‘deprived of their liberty’, never as being protected from the demands of [...]

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