No I have never signed up to it but it flashed across my mind when Tom Stevenson's blog queried our relationship with free speech, in this instance, Peter Willsman, Labour man had said something 'off screen' about the Israeli embassy. The question could we not speak out about unfair policies in Israel against the Palestinians is perhaps a subject we should be silent on but then free speech becomes impaired.
The correlation between Grammarly and proper writing and of how one actually sees the world through the lens of one's own eye is intriguing. One problem is the fact that the media are there like a pack of media men (not being cruel to wolves who only hustle for food) hustling for news. One sentence can easily be taken out of context, and then blown up in front headlines and a person's career can be ruined. This is a question for editors to address.
But the world of today has changed from the simple place I once knew to a more dogmatic attitude of 'proper behaviour'. We have through the internet, media news and what else, now not only contemplate our own tummy buttons but everyone elses!
Actually I cannot see an answer, news screams at us from every corner, we can only pick and choose, acccept that there are gender issues we never knew existed, or that protests against them, as in the case of the Birmingham primary school, are part of a multi-cultural problem, but maybe we should not have an opinion;)
But at least the day has opened calm and beautiful, the birds are singing, the milkman has just left the papers.................
The world has gone mad. There was a time when milkmen delivered milk and the papers were delivered by paperboys and papergirls. Good to see that legal instruments are now in place to thwart the brainwashed bigots outside Anderton Park Primary School in Birmingham. How ironic that such ignorant people dare to use our hard won freedom to protest - in order to try to squash the freedoms of others.
ReplyDeleteAs you point out you can't win, but I do believe that the law is above all, and fairness and justice should preside. Also Giles Coren touched on the subject in today's article...https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/and-now-for-something-completely-non-racist-cw67vpsgb
ReplyDeleteHave just read the Giles Coren article myself. Talked a lot of sense.
ReplyDeleteHe always makes me laugh Pat, and the ability to be funny about serious issues is one thing we should never lose.
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