dermot's Blog
Ruth Kelly Unfairly in the Firing Line
Dermot Mon Jan 08, 2007 at 01:19:32 PM GMT 
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Countless times throughout my career in teaching, a great deal of which was dealing with pastoral matters, I had parents in my office at their wits end due to their kid having Special Educational Needs, be they behavioural or academic. Some fairly routine but no less worrying, some genuinely toe curling.
The War on Kids
Dermot Mon Oct 23, 2006 at 03:28:00 PM GMT
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Yesterday's Observer carried an important piece about the worrying trend of criminalisation of young people by the Justice System.
Iraq and the Lancet Report
Dermot Sat Oct 21, 2006 at 01:53:48 PM GMT
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An Apocalyptic Slaughter of the Innocents.
That's all I can find to say about the recent Lancet Report which puts the casualties in Iraq since the 2003 invasion at well over 600,000, and that's on top of the 1.5 million acknowledged deaths caused by the "genocidal" (Denis Halliday, UN Under Secretary General) sanctions regime from 1990 onwards.
Clare Short Resignation
Dermot Fri Oct 20, 2006 at 08:23:26 PM GMT
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I am genuinely sorry to see Clare Short's departure form the Labour Party as no one can contest that she really means it, a true Socialist who is in politics for all the right reasons.
