tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:59:56 +0000commentary with a twisthttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)Blogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-4424990580747111346Mon, 20 Jun 2011 07:00:00 +00002011-06-20T12:55:14.780+01:00Shop-o-Mart has announced a major new initiative to help identify and ‘support’ the nation’s hidden chocoholicsHidden chocoholics are people who despite having what experts would label as a mild chocolate addiction (“chocolism”) do not recognise themselves as such. Encouraged by the results of a successful trial earlier this year where Shop-o-Mart stores in the South West worked with the http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2011/06/shop-o-mart-to-expose-nations.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-5393411420358190837Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:43:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:55.943ZPOSSEs need educational supportSecondary schools run by local police constabularies should have learning support officers stationed permanently on site to give pupils elementary lessons in reading and writing, ministers said yesterday.In the latest measure to crack down on deteriorating standards, the head police officers (“policemasters”) who are in charge of POSSEs (“police-operated secondary http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/07/teacher-for-every-school.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-1523133576628459645Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:00:00 +00002011-06-20T11:58:01.866+01:00 The Reverend Dr. Ash Walliams, leader of the Church of Sociology, was kind enough to grant an interview to The Custodian.Your Grace, you’re concerned about young people getting into debt they can't afford.AW: We are, like totally getting into this culture where bitchin levels of borrowing are the norm.What do you think of the idea that young people should go on training courses to teach them thehttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/04/fightin-evil-lenders-to-max.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-8454117882609535350Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:00:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:56.185ZBritannia, a small island off the coast of France, covered up abuse in state children's homes to protect its reputationThe civil servant who highlighted the issue of abusive childcare practices on Britannia has accused the island’s establishment of a “culture of concealment” and of frustrating efforts to help vulnerable children.Simon Stuart, a former health and social security official before hehttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/03/islands-culture-of-secrecy-facilitated.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-4606831297071040697Wed, 20 Feb 2008 22:03:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:56.338ZSpelling is "morally ambiguous", says Institute of Re-educationRecent calls by political leaders for the promotion of correct spelling in schools should be resisted, says a new report from the Institute of Re-education.The study, by Hamish Michaels and Patricia Jones, proposes that the teaching of spelling should be treated as a controversial issue. It says students must decide for themselves howhttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/02/english-is-too-controversial-to-promote.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-7322331502409009749Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:37:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:56.477ZCampaigners welcome move to reduce statist pollution Freedom fighters in Bucks have welcomed a move to retire social workers and other 'carers' in certain areas of the county. Bucks County Council has recently announced the trial scheme in a bid to save costs, and to reduce the pollution of unwanted interventionism. A series of trial 'social work blackouts' will be carried out over the next few http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/02/social-workers-to-be-switched-off.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-1770039533951281523Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:43:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:56.596ZDoctors are calling for NHS treatment to be withheld from patients who claim to be unwell Inoperable cancer patients, AIDS victims, sufferers of Alzheimer’s and victims of strokes or heart attacks should be barred from receiving medical treatment, according to doctors, with most saying the health service cannot afford to provide care to everyone.Politeness and respect are also on the list of http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/01/dont-treat-ill-say-doctors.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-394873271007033535Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:00:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:56.774Z"Private schools prevent social mixing" — £125,000-a-year headmasterPrivate school headmasters who stir up resentment and promote left wing ideology should resign, the headmaster of Wallingford College has said.Dr Selby Anson, recipient of a £125,000-a-year remuneration package, claimed that people like him were fuelling left wing ideology by putting out propaganda which undermined other private http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/01/shame-of-closet-collectivist.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-5561379412201297633Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:41:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:56.874ZAn education scam that targets young people desperate to acquire ‘degrees’ has been exposed by a Custodian investigation. The bogus University of Camford, a formerly prestigious seat of learning, has been allowed to offer sub-standard and worthless degrees — virtually unchecked by the government — for the last twenty years.Camford, which has 10,000 students from around the world, maintains the http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/01/bogus-university-scam-uncovered.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-353856260459453417Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:40:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:56.976ZThe growth in mediocracy over the past 20 years is taking a heavy toll on our wellbeingBy far the most significant consequence of 'mediocracy' (state interventionism, dumbing down, aggressification, ideological brainwashing, etc.) has been a startling increase in the incidence of so-called 'mental illness' in both children and adults since the 1970s.It is notable that citizens of countries http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2008/01/mediocracy-is-bad-for-our-mental-health.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-4855344364185547391Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:12:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:57.195Zby Custodian reporter Goldie TangLike every single woman, I walk through life asking: what do men want? Why are my high-maintenance, ambitious female friends living alone? A month ago, I devised an experiment to find the definitive answer. I decided to attend a speed-dating night as a fabulously successful and politically progressive treasury bond analyst, and then another as a sweetly innocent http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/12/what-on-earth-do-men-want.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-474599357760898193Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:33:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:57.350ZThe topic of government responsibility is a complex one on which opinions are divided. Do governments have a responsibility not to harm individual citizens? Or simply an obligation to ‘society’, i.e. to the mythical collective, and the dominant ideology? How should obligations to individuals, if they exist, be discharged? Are we right to be suspicious when governments bang on about how 'committedhttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/12/government-as-paedophile.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-6807930690381582234Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:22:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:57.522ZBullying by ‘bloggertarians’ against socialists is a growing problem, groups sayInciting hatred against people of a leftist persuasion is to be outlawed under government plans outlined in the Queen's Speech. It will be added to proposals announced last month to make it a crime to incite hatred against gay people, black people, Muslim people, old people and disabled people.David Congdon, of the http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/11/socialist-hate-crime-law-planned.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-7134739151624874048Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:02:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:57.645ZBy means of greater regulation, corporations are turned into our slaves. Instead of draining wealth from the poor, they are forced to return it. Many, perhaps most, will go under in the attempt, and we should delight to see them drown.Thus wrote Jeremy Moonbat, the privately-educated son of affluent middle class parents, in 2003.I used to read Moonbat’s columns religiously. Published by a leftisthttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/10/illiberal-elitists-are-true-social.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-2101636571095913403Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:50:00 +00002011-02-19T12:23:54.203ZUrgent policy action needed to help nasally challenged childrenChildren with big noses perform significantly worse in exams than those with average-sized ones, even up to GCSE level, according to new research published today by ISP (the Institute for Socialist Propaganda). Policy changes are needed if this unfair disadvantage is not to damage the chances of nasally challenged children.New work byhttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/10/nose-size-affects-academic-outcomes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-364566837033383415Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:33:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:57.897ZWe can only deal with the compulsive behaviours of interventionist politicians and social theorists by first recognising their underlying motivationTwo important reports came out this weekend. One says the government’s preference for creating new laws and other forms of intervention will eventually cost the UK £45bn a year by 2050 if current trends are not reversed. Another shows the number of http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/12/intervention-addicts-must-receive-help.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-3731759670216744938Mon, 17 Sep 2007 13:47:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:58.056ZThe modern Western state has grown exponentially since World War Two. In 1940, UK tax revenue (for example) was about $100 billion in today’s money; now it is getting on for $1 trillion per annum. Some right-wing politicians have attempted to reduce the size and power of the state by trying to cut back on public expenditure. Often, given the political difficulty of doing so, they have resorted tohttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/12/disaster-socialism.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-2034273468497209986Tue, 28 Aug 2007 16:03:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:58.161ZTo deter crime, why does the state not consider amputation as a form of punishment?In many situations it would be better to impose a punishment of amputation than imprisonment. The fact that the U.S. justice system rejects amputation as a punishment is the result of an anti-amputation bias.Amputation has two benefits over imprisonment. It’s cheaper for the state to impose and it doesn’t preventhttp://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/08/how-to-overcome-bias.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-3730168395826531011Fri, 25 May 2007 16:27:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:58.313ZThe economist and philosopher Damian Tomaso, author of two books on libertarian issues, made clear today he is prepared to declare a "state of philosophical emergency" to suspend intellectual support for the legitimacy of the UK government, if the Law Lords overturn — as Home Secretary Dr John Reid has demanded — a series of judgments that have weakened the anti-terrorist control order regime http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/05/reid-in-terror-attack-on-liberties.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142017370569953331.post-2903911816919284838Tue, 09 Jan 2007 17:30:00 +00002008-12-09T06:20:58.431ZToday's sermon is on the loss of religious faith among contemporary Church leadersWhere do we get our religious leadership today? Is there something more to religion than endless talk of social deprivation? Increasingly it is our Muslim leaders rather than our Cardinals Popes or Bishops who attempt to answer the difficult and pressing question of whether there is a God.For me, as an agnostic, http://custodian-online.blogspot.com/2007/01/my-kind-of-people.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Fabian Tassano)