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The boys on table five all began to moan that their white teacher was always picking on them and that the school was “prejujuice” – a word they had trouble pronouncing but not applying to me.
As one might expect, Blair’s is by far the most interesting of these books. I was more impressed by his analysis of events than I expected to be, yet ended up liking him less than I imagined I would.
Prospect also has a fabulous article by Tony Sewell, who argues that black boys used to fail at school because of racism and now they fail because they won’t take responsibility, having learned a culture of victimhood. He tells the story of a class he taught:
Good issue of Prospect magazine just out. Apart from the cartoons (my favourite,
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http://www.axcxzx.com/index.asp, the editor. I’ve been surprised by how so few reviewers have engaged with the arguments in Blair’s book as opposed to drivelling on about the trivia. Not even the mad anti-war brigade have sought to respond to the four closely-argued chapters on Iraq.
Goodhart’s review is what you buy long-form journalism for,
http://www.myscjy.net/u/space.php?ui...blog&id=838250, which is why it is behind a pay wall, so pay up. But I’ll give you a bit more of a taste than you get on the Prospect website. He compares A Journey with Peter Mandelson’s The Third Man, Alastair Campbell’s diaries and Giles Radice’s triple portrait of Blair, Brown and Mandelson:
Tangentially related is a short note by Peter Kellner, president of YouGov, which is available free,
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