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Read The Book
Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
Licence
Stats
The relationship between crime and unemployment
A third of those claiming unemployment benefit have criminal records. Article here. It is a startling statistic. It seems pretty obvious that those who are convicted will, especially if they have been in prison, be more likely to go onto … Continue reading
Which countries have obedient pedestrians and why?
As I go from country to country, one of the things I occasionally notice is whether or not people obey the signs for pedestrians not to cross a road. Here in Warsaw, the level of obedience is quite remarkable. Only … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime
On TV tonight
The recording I did for Channel 4 is on TV tonight. The programme appears at 7.55. I await with trepidation to see what the editors have done. My children say that I look ‘scary’ in the picture on the 4thought … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime, Media, including BBC bias, Parenting, Welfare benefits
Beer and circuses: aspects of university education in the USA…and probably elsewhere
…high dropout rates, growing student debt, a beer-and-circus social spectacle that dominates many campuses, and measured outcomes that show many students fail to increase their knowledge significantly in four, five, or more years… From an article arguing for a return … Continue reading
Hospital visitors – a reflection of a society and its values
I am currently in Malta and have visited a hospital a number of times. One thing is a notable contrast with what I have seen in Britain. In a small ward of six beds, the patients have more visitors. I … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime
The Inbetweeners – a celebration of vulgarity and selfishness
I was persuaded to go to a new British film, The Inbetweeners last night. It was a kind of celebration of vulgarity and selfishness. Occasionally it was funny. But any kind act was rare and then taken advantage of to … Continue reading
Aspects of the riots and what needs to be done
Some articles in today’s Sunday Telegraph reflect different aspects of the riots and their aftermath: The interview with David Cameron. He is talking tough on crime now but he is the man who appointed Kenneth Clarke to be in charge … Continue reading
Posted by James Bartholomew
Indexed in Behaviour & Crime, Blog, Parenting, Politics, Reform, Unemployment, Welfare benefits
Selfishness is good: the new morality according to Simon Cowell
SIMON Cowell has told US X Factor judge Nicole Scherzinger how much he admires her – for being “selfish and ruthless”. Nicole joined the panel after Cheryl Cole was axed just two weeks into her American dream. In a thinly-veiled … Continue reading
The mob violence: an analysis that will not be made and a reflection on the difficulty of measuring incivility and alienation
The riots in London and elsewhere over the past few days suggest a profound level of underlying incivility and alienation among the young, especially, in Britain. It would b extremely interesting for there to be an analysis of those arrested … Continue reading
Once again, a murderer turns out to have come from a broken home
Anders Beivik, like Raol Moat, the killers of Jamie Bulger and, I would suggest, most others who have hit the headlines as killers, came from a broken home . I wonder if it is particularly significant that he was rejected … Continue reading