For some reason, I was thinking specifically of the school-level history textbook featuring Brunel on the front cover, with his cigar airbushed out.
http://www.igreens.org.uk/brunel_bowdlerised.htm
and the colour of the chains in the background have been modified. how are the kids supposed to learn?????
You have to agree though, it's pretty fucking daft. As if some kid's going to start smoking because of a long-dead Victorian engineer.
it just struck me as the sort of thing that has turned political correctness from what was originally a pretty good idea, almost a sort of moral common sense, into the byword for hysterically pedantic doublethink it's become today.
I'm now really into the idea of Big Ben British Values and am using it in the title of a talk I am doing.
Brain Gym
good man! this is vital to our future!
i've had a quick look around to find out the sort of values that big ben (the british one) likes, according to prof glees.
imprisonment without trial is one:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/e...ernment-should-be-a-policy-option-420602.html
Yeah, it's totally unacceptable to want something to be different from how it is."Forty per cent of British Muslims say they want to live under sharia law. That is unacceptable. They should go to a country with sharia law."
crucial moment
Yeah, it's totally unacceptable to want something to be different from how it is.