I've almost finished reading La Peste for the second time, and like the first time, I feel really inspired. I feel I understand what Camus was saying, and the difference between him and Sartre, much better now - largely thanks to a random book attacking atheism which I found and flicked through in a bookshop. Sartre holds the view that man can, in ( Read more... )

Schools have been in the news a lot recently with the whole grammar school debate. Here are some articles that have got into the Red Book, plus a few statistics and facts.

If you read only one of these articles, make it this one, highlighting why grammar schools are no longer effective in helping poor clever children and actually result in less ( Read more... )

As I know I have a lot of socialists on my flist, I thought that whenever I update the   Red Book, I'd post it here. This allows my socialist buddies to gape in horror at the inequality of modern society, and allows my non-socialist buddies to get a glimpse of what it is that angers me.

And look! I found a little friendly Red Book userpic. How cool ( Read more... )

I thought I'd do a bit of self-analysis. This has just been on my mind ( Read more... )