God help the world...

(BBC online)

USA (Opinion) ... if yet another Bush gets into the White House.

Andalucía’s education disaster (MÁS ABAJO EN ESPAÑOL: Andalucía, desastre en educación)

OPINION (by Alberto Bullrich) -- A friend’s son was told to leave his classroom at the village Adult Education Centre the other day. He called his mother in tears; she went to speak with the teacher, who told her that the ‘head office’ had denied the boy, 17, permission to take the exams at the end of the course because he was born in January, after the ‘adult’ deadline of December 31. He would have to wait a whole year, though he was offered other unrealistic alternatives. Fair enough, he was born ‘too late’ so he is not officially an adult yet. But why was he eager to attend these classes?

Latest fashionable expression: tanks on your lawn

(domraab.blogspot.com)

OPINION – I listen to the radio a lot (in English it’s BFBS2 because there are no real alternatives – and then I only hear the Today programme or other news, because I cannot believe how that station, aimed at members of the forces, talks down to its listeners who do not deserve that kind of disrespect, but that’s another rant for another day). Anyway, I heard our friend Nigel Farage (still don’t know the origin of his very un-English surname) say something about parking his tanks on Labour’s lawn. Knowing as little as possible about our Nigel, it wouldn’t surprise me that he would actually do that, in a drunken rage, likely as not, and in any case, I doubt he’s ever lived under circumstances as told below. But I do know something about the expression itself (and prefer not to even mention Farage despite his party's victory at Clacton last night ...):