Thursday, 12th November 2009
Lesser forms of pond life amongst the British intelligentsia
11:33pm
On CiF Watch, the admirable Jonathan Hoffman reports on his attendance at a meeting at SOAS addressed by the disgusting Israeli bigot Shlomo Sand (whose bilious lies about the Jewish people were given a platform by Andrew Marr on BBC Radio Four’s Start the Week on Monday to coincide with an earlier talk by Sand -- which took place on what happened to be the anniversary ofKristallnacht. See here for Hoffman's earlier thumbnail sketch of Sand's appalling views). He was, he says, the only person at this meeting to make a critical comment. This is what happened afterwards:
A British white guy – well dressed, plummy accent – asked me if I was British. I said I was. ‘Well you can’t be, if you are Jewish’ he said – several times, before I told him he was a Nazi. That’s the kind of pondlife these events attract, like fleas to a dog.
Alas, such sentiments are not confined to inverterbrate life forms but are now routinely heard in the most refined dinner-party discourse of the British intelligentsia.
Nightingale must be turning in her grave
8:52am
The news reported in the Times today that nursing in Britain is to become a degree-only qualification should strike a deep chill into every heart. Ostensibly to ‘improve patient care’ it will achieve precisely the opposite. That is because the real aim of such a move is to improve not patient care but the professional status of the nurse. The effect on patient care overall will be disastrous.
We can be certain about this because this is hardly new. For many years now, nursing has been in the grip of an ultra-feminist orthodoxy which regards the essence of nursing – caring for patients’ most basic needs – as demeaning to women. The perception that nurses were the mere ‘handmaidens’ of the doctors, who were perceived to be overwhelmingly male, led to an academic approach to nursing which sought to...
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