English graduate debt and moral bankruptcy

While I prepare to take a break from online activity over the Bank Holiday weekend, I leave you with two headline links. One is that English graduate debt is only surpassed by that of American Ivy League universities, and the other is about the lengths to which supposedly intelligent minds in the Department for Work & Pensions have proposed that vulnerable people should shoulder even more of the burden of 'saving the taxpayer money'.

http://www.suttontrust.com/newsarchive/english-students-face-highest-graduate-debts-exceeding-ivy-league-average/
and
http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/revealed-dwps-secret-financially-devastating-proposals-for-benefits-appeals/

The late American educational psychologist Dr Haim G Ginott asked the authors Faber & Mazlish who wrote 'Liberated Parents; Liberated Children: Your Guide to a Happier Family' and others who attended his parenting workshops. He asked them what parents have accomplished if the children they raise to be top of the class use their 'brilliance' to manipulate and bully others?

Beware of small print on election leaflets!

Dude Swheatie has just received email notification that a candidate standing for General Election in a North London constituency has been sending out leaflets attacking one of their opposing parties in colours associated with yet another party.

Officials of the yet another party concerned have received complaints from recipients of those leaflets, and through having locals in the area have discovered that the small print does say that the leaflet comes from the campaign office of the 2010 elected Member of Parliament standing for re-election. Negative campaigning is 'not the style' of the yet another party.

So it's not just benefit claimants who have dirty tricks played on them!