"What's good for our children is for us to say" - that's the title of an incisive article on the government's power-grabbing plans to intrude further into family life, from the Daily Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/philipjohnston/6371228/If-home-schooling-is-good-for-our-children-it-is-for-us-to-say.html
In the name of the rights of the child (as ever), the government is again seeking to increase its own rights. Now: a new right for the officers of the local council to interview your child, in your home, without you present - to determine if they think you're educating your child in a way they approve of. As Johnson says, "Orwellian". This isn't just a big deal to home-schoolers. This new right, once established, has far-reaching implications, and every parent in the UK should be deeply concerned.
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The irony of modern democracies is that they are becoming more socialist than socialism in the way that they intrude into and attempt to control our lives in every way. I feel glad that I will be leaving it in the not too distant future, but very sad for those left behind to cope with a world where they have less and less control over the personal issues that matter. Ashamedly, I have no clue how we can arrest the decline, and though prayer is never a last resort, increasingly I am seeing prayer as not just the first but the only resort to deal with the madness that is overtaking the planet faster than global warming (if indeed it is).
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