A fascinating piece on the evolution of girl gangs which ties in with some of the stuff I point out in Yob Nation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/14/do1403.xml‘
A fascinating piece on the evolution of girl gangs which ties in with some of the stuff I point out in Yob Nation
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/14/do1403.xml‘
Back at the Beeb on Sunday morning talking about new research which shows girls are just as badly behaved as boys, but just in subtler, trickier ways. I described how boys have thrown missiles, stuck ripped cans on my chair, fought and hurled abuse at me, while girls have caused probably more trouble by lying, […]
A recent survey conducted by Nottingham University has shown that mobile phones can really help boost standards in the classroom if they are used wisely and imaginatively. Pupils can Bluetooth their work to each other, set deadlines on the digital diaries, research issues on the web, take videos of teachers explaining key points (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/09/04/dlmobile104.xml) I […]
1. One of the major contentions in ‘Yob Nation’ was that Blair’s government was a yobbish government, motivated by an aggressive, theatrical desire to promote itself. The publication of Campbell’s diaries, countless commentators on Blair’s Iraq disaster, and the news that Brown is now cancelling classic ‘yob’ innovations such as gambling super-casinos, now show us […]
I took my scooter to the Opera this week. It was the first time my scooter had ever been there, and only my second trip. I asked the check-in lady whether she had ever checked in a muddy push scooter at the Royal Opera House before. She said with a wry smile that she hadn’t. […]
