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The new Pakistani Government confronts the Taliban
Over the last eighteen months ago, I’ve commented that I was less worried about Iraq than I was about Afghanistan… and worried about Afghanistan because of Pakistan.
Education It's Not
‘Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared,' declared the Reverend Charles Colton almost two centuries ago, ‘for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.' Today's GCSE and A level candidates would do well to bear the clergyman's bon mot in mind as they receive their results. For contrary to the impression sometimes given in the annual dumbing-down debate, the central reality of modern British education is not the intellectual inadequacy of candidates, for which no credible evidence has been produced, but the often mind-numbing stupidity of the educational establishment, for which the evidence is clear and overwhelming.
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