Monthly Archives: September 2021

Selected Quotes: Health and Social Care Levy 8th September 2021

Posted on September 16, 2021 by odeboyz

Jake Barry (Con) Will my right hon. Friend [Jesse Norman] tell the House how much the 1.25% increase in national insurance will cost the NHS on top of its current payroll? John Redwood (Con) I understand that for a couple … Continue reading →

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Well! I’ve never done this

Posted on September 13, 2021 by odeboyz
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The benefits of immigrant children in school (USA)

Posted on September 13, 2021 by odeboyz

“… the presence of immigrant students has a positive effect on the academic achievement of US-born students, especially for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Moreover, the presence of immigrants does not affect negatively the performance of affluent US-born students, who typically … Continue reading →

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Enough is enough

Posted on September 9, 2021 by odeboyz
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An implausible anecdote about Marcel Proust

Posted on September 9, 2021 by odeboyz

“…Proust himself had said that he wrote the opening and closing paragraphs of À la recherche one after the other, and then just filled in the other 1.2 million words in the middle.” Salmon, Peter. An Event, Perhaps (p. 110). … Continue reading →

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Mark Twain on Stupidity

Posted on September 6, 2021 by odeboyz
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Women Always Win

Posted on September 6, 2021 by odeboyz

“While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end … Continue reading →

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A cunning professor

Posted on September 1, 2021 by odeboyz

At Sydney University, there were four students studying Organic Chemistry. They were excellent students achieving “A’s”. They were so confident they decided to go to Canberra and party with some friends the weekend before their finals. However, they slept through … Continue reading →

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The Political Education of Cassius Clay

Posted on September 1, 2021 by odeboyz

Cassius Clay lived in segregated Kentucky during his boyhood. Segregation is, quite simply, institutional racism. He became Olympic champion in 1960 in Rome aged 18, where he defeated white men. On his return, the grim reality of segregated Kentucky became … Continue reading →

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