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16th FEB 2013

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BEST OF THE HORSE MEAT JOKES :

Thank frig I no longer have to worryabout developing mad cow disease !Findus … sponsors of channel 4 Racing?Sky news: Missing US tourist found deadin Turkey - kind of overshadows the horsemeat found in burgers story doesn’t it ?Tescos are now extremely concernedabout possible revelations regarding theirFrench Coq Au Vin and SpanishMeatballs.What's the fuss? For years we've been toldthat Ready Meals contain too much Saltand Shergar !

LETTERS IN !Wow ! We must be doingsomething right ! Seems thateveryone has noticed thenew direction of the mag - in our restartwe’re less about jokes shame and scandal…and more about community focusedinformation and entertainment. Here aresome of your letters (copied and pasted…spelling mistakes and all .. and with ourcomments:

Man bournyA lot a people talk and complain but I didntthink that I would ever read about that dance.Baje must be hopping mad but you right tolet people know who expensive it was. Welldone mate - keep them in line ! BHWe’ve printed your email but we receivedeight that commented directly on Baje’sfunction - it appears that much more moneyflowed barwards than we estimated -nevertheless - he knows his peeps and welldone him !

Hi LeighWhat a refreshingly honest appraisal of theindependence functions ! Its good and abouttime that there is a means to complain aboutpoor quality or lack of value for money atsome of these dinner dances - but will youever write about the one(s) that refuse youentry should it happen ? Keep up the goodwork. GYHmmm ! Interesting scenario. Denying entrymust shout loud and clear that something iswrong or needs hiding - cant see ithappening meself but you never know.

PY Team !How come only one of you - Mr LeighBourne - is prepared to put a head above theparapet ?Despite what people say …its a smaller headthan the others… so you’re more likely tomiss !

Lee, how come you dontsend it anymore. I rememberwhen all we had to do was

send stamps and then we had to send a pound,I would like to have a copy because I dontlike reading it on the screen and have to waitfor one of my children to print it out. Whenare you going to start posting it again. BWYou might not have seen it but we posted onFace Book that thanks to a generousdonation we can now print PY to order -we’ve calculated that to get a 20 page PYthrough your letterbox will cost (roundedup)90p plus postage. Far cheaper to print ityourself ..or connect the PC to a TV to get afuller and bigger picture - but …the choiceis yours.

To the editorI’m sick and tired hearing about horse meatin pies, and in pasta and tinned foods. Iremember buying horsemeat in ShepherdsBush back in the fifties and I would betanyone that cooked properly ..they wouldnot be able to tell the difference between itand beef. I cant understand what all the fussis about - I’ll bet you any amount of moneythat if …rather than throw away all theburgers, pies, tinned and frozen food withhorsemeat in ..Tesco, Lidl and all the otherswere to put them some where on sale for 10peach …they would sell out in no time.People too soft and fussy these days. K O’BI would not take that bet cos you’re right -people would snap them up products darnpronto. The media insists on usinginflammatory words like ‘infected’ and

‘contaminated’ when these words do notapply even slightly. Where there’s money tobe made you’re gonna find criminality andthat’s the case here …somebody somewheredidnt get paid or was betrayed so a sneakyphone call was made to the authorities ..it isthat simple …but believe ..its only the tip ofthe iceberg

RALPH STRAKER, BSM, OBE

As a token of appreciation for themassive contribution made to theCaribbean Community by Ralph,,

Friends of Ralph have got together andorganised an Appreciation Ball to honourhim, to recognise his life’s work and tocelebrate his birthday.

‘Come and join us as wecelebrate Ralph’s life journey’

The Ball will take place between 7. 30pmand 2. 00am Saturday 16th March 2013,at the Starlight Banqueting Suite 282-300Lea Bridge Road, Leyton, London E107LD. The entertainment includes music byDaddy Vince, songs by Rosanne Green anda comedy skit by Hortensia. Tickets areavailable at a cost of £50. Please note costis inclusive of a three course meal wine anddrinks. When ordering tickets please statepreference for meat or fish.

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If internet re-ports are tobe believed

…then Barba-dos’ Commis-sioner of PoliceDarwin Dobbin…er I mean Dot-tin ...like manyof his officers…is in serious

need of public relations training. Eitherthat or someone should whisper in hisshell like .. “hey man .. know when tohush” !Honestly, within weeks of publicly insistinghe remains convinced his officers soughtcaught arrested and charged the right manwith rape … our Dobbin proclaimed at atraining course how vital it was for investi-gation officers never to place total relianceon confessions alone. What ? Is this guy forreal ?Well then we need to tell you about JoshuaWaiganjo. For ten years Josh passed off asa top police offic-er. He hired andfired police offic-ers, attended topsecurity meet-ings, addressedpress conferenc-es and for fiveyears pretended to be an Assistant Commis-sioner in Kenya’s Rift Valley province. Butas always with these things Josh got rum-bled and he’s now behind bars awaiting trial.He definitely wasn’t for real …and it hasbeen reported that the Kenyan governmenthas set up an enquiry to establish amongstother things …who recruited Josh …andwhether or not this case of impersonation isan isolated one. Hmmm !

Are you thinking what we’re thinking ?

DOTTIN

JOSH

For years we’ve been questioningthe Nation Newspaper’s relevanceto ordinary UK Bajan life since we

only read the obituary pages … check tosee who dead dat we might know.But when a number of its readers con-tacted PY to point out that the sameobituary page was reprinted two weeksrunning and apparently …not for thefirst time…our flabber was well and tru-ly ….gasted !Maybe the editor or the person responsiblefor creating the UK edition don’t give adamn – or maybe they think us UK Bajansare either stupid or mad and have no meansto complain if we have issues . Well …ifthat’s what you’re thinking …then you’rewrong on every front. And while we’re at it… we at PY have an issue we’d like to raise.Imaging our surprise when we saw that ourNorton Anti Virus software classified therisk as high …and successfully blocked anintrusion attempt into our computer by theNation Newspaper. What information are

they seek-ing …andhow manyBajans any-where areaware ofthe intru-sions or

that the company makes use of this kind ofsoftware ? Were we proper journalists wewould have contacted the nation and askedfor an explanation …but we all knew ourchances of getting a response would be nilso we didn’t bother. We are hopeful howev-er, that a BLP promise to introduce compu-ter misuse legislation similar to the UK’sactually reaches the statutebooks…meanwhile …as far as the Nationwebsite goes …

BEWARE !

Blummin cheek ! We caught aglimpse of a DLP UK manage-ment committee report bemoan-

ing the fact that some DLP members orsupporters - who did not attend theirown annual ball - were seen at the moreexpensive BLP function. The note wenton to reprimand the miscreants by stat-ing that it is against party rules to sup-port any other political organisation.

Couple of things here. First – the ques-tion must be asked .. apart from theirPRO ...when was the last time any mem-ber of the management committee seensupporting or partying at any other com-munity organisation function ...politicalor otherwise ? and secondly ..who thehell are they to tell people how when orwhere to spend their hard earned pen-nies ? Hardly democratic is it ? Andwhy is it that the DLP UK ...an organisa-tion with such a tremendous followingranging right across the generations ..egover 600 face book friends ...struggleand fail so miserably to garner any actu-al support ?

The truth is the branch has a seriousleadership problem. Most memberseither don’t like them ...or have verylittle to no faith at all in them… espe-cially their terminally vain chairman

...who the vast majority of supportersbelieve needs to be kicked far intosome long grass... or better still ...intodeep water without a float aid ....justlike the good peeps in Reading didyears ago ...as did those at the Nation-al Council of Barbadian Associationmore recently. Blummin cheek !

TheAwakening:Is Food Your

Medicine?

I sat down to watch the youtubevideo, entitled ‘The Best SpeechYou Will Ever Hear’ by Gary

Yourofsky, and to read a book called,‘Understanding The Divine Gut’ byScott Mathias, both sent by a goodfriend.

As I watched the video, seeing horrendousabuses to US animals in cramped, pitifulconditions, according to Yourofsky,suddenly steak, lamb shanks, chicken andbacon ceased to have any dietary allurewhatsoever. Animals, I realised, pay toohigh a price to feed us. I became aninstant vegetarian, though not all farmsare inhumane.These creatures are sentient beings. Theyfeel. They understand. The video showedthat calves are often taken away asnewborns from their mothers, and fedother products, so that the humanpopulation can take over their mother’smilk.The calves are then secured, to prevent

movement or exercise, reducing muscleformation. Their diet lacks nutrients, tokeep meat pale. Soon after, they arespared further degradation by being killedas veal for restaurants and meat-eatinghomes.The grieving mother, pumped up daily bymechanical means and growth hormonesto increase milk supply, frequently suffersfrom mastitis, which infects over-stretched, inflamed udders. Look awaynow if you are eating ice cream ordrinking a shake in America, for the USgovernment allows 750 million pus cellsto each litre of milk. The EU andCanada allow a less creamy, 400,000,000cells per litre, although milk in thesecountries generally contains less of thisoozy additive.Are we meant to drink milk anyway?Research shows that in high dairyconsumptioncountries likeS w e d e n ,Australia, theUSA and theUK, there isalso thehighest rateof bone loss and hip fractures fromosteoporosis! Ironically, what researchersnow say happens is that the body leechescalcium when a person consumes dairyproducts. We have been sorely misledinto taking dairy calcium for bone health.Poor cows do not even benefit withcourtship from a handsome bull, beingartificially inseminated to produce calveseach year. So where do we go for ourprotein? What I found in the book byScott Mathias surprised me.

byMERCEDES

Kale, a dark green, leafy vegetable,contains more calcium per calorie than

milk and moreiron than beef,and is betterabsorbed bythe body. Itc o n t a i n somega-3 andomega-6 fattyacids, ishighly anti-

oxidant and anti-inflammatory, and hasbeneficial fibre, as well as 2 grams ofprotein, per average serving. It containsno saturated fat, growth hormones orantibiotics. Kale grows to maturity in 55to 60 days; cows raised for beef take 18to 24 months, and need vast quantities ofgrain, fossil fuel and water to reachmaturity. Kale can thrive, in most gardens,worldwide.Kale is free of the cellular memory ofdistressed, condemned animals, whichmay have influenced depression rates incountries with high meat and dairyconsumption; we become what we eat!

‘Let food be thy medicine’ Hippocratesadvised, around 430 BC.

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WhatSharontalking‘bout?

I is a old woman up hay since de longesttime in the buzum of de Lord. But Idoes see evah ting dat goes on down dey.

Don’ get me confuse wid dat lady dat usesto lick she mout in de Bubbadus Nation. Ien so. I don’ mine talking, but she didsometing else. Talk fuh so! I did like shetoo bad dough. And she fam’ly BlabberMout’ Wha She Name?But I diff’rent to dem.

I don’ understand wha de young peopletalking ‘bout these days. I uses to stick upfuh Rihanna and uses to pray dat de peoplelef de girl whey she is.Don’ mind she music en fuh me, not like de

Country andWestern or derockin androllin and themso. Dem timeshad good music.But after all,she young and

looks good, so I never uses to mind ‘bout demusic suh much. But de people likes tocriticise she too much. I en see a ting wrongwid enjoying yuh self, doing a lil wukkingup pun de tv and drinking a licker when deSarda night come.Even when de Irish farma chase she way halfnaked from he place, I did real vex cause Ien see nutting wrong wid mekking a picturefuh de youngsters.But this latest ting now ‘bout tekking dedrugs got me off set. De people pun de

Facebook and de Twitter holler fuh merdaand giving Ri-Ri bare lashes pun dey. Duhsey she bringing de country into disreputeand mekking she self look cheap. Ri-Ri seyshe only smoking a lil joint and dat peopleshould mind dem own business.Den da poppet, Sharon Osbourne, come pun

Amur’can tv,opening shebig mout andtalking ‘bouthow all weBajans doess m o k eweeds! Wha

she talking ‘bout? Yuh does see some ofde boys pun the block doin them foolishnesssometimes but wha fuh them en fuh evahbody. Frum wha I hear, if Sharon husbanddid stick to weeds then he mite sound likegot senses lef.But Rihanna en care coz she head hard …and she don’ learn.

Now I hear she gone back wid de lil boywho bus she tailde udda day. Shelike real licks fuhtrue.I hope I en ginesee she up heysoon from now,cause she stillyoung and goodlooking. But, if Isee she I would tell she ‘girl, yuh shouldacare yuh self better and don’t give n’bodycause to put down we lil country or mek yuhfam’ly shame. You did suppose to be deambassador after all and the young peopledid mind you and emulate you. Yuhshoulda leave out the nasty drugs an de badboys an walk with the good Lord.’

Amen.

By Angel Lou

The West Indies Women crickettesm arrived in Mumbai fromLondon on Emirates in the early

hours of morning of the 24th of Jan…minus their luggage.After arriving in Dubai they had anhour…give or take a few mins… to catchtheir connecting flight.. hence luggagenot making the flight. They had to makedo with whatever the had in their handluggage for the day. The luggage arrivedmuch later that day. It is believed theteam had travelled from Barbados ineconomy class which was unnecessaryas the International Cricket Council hadpicked up the airline tab for the teams..but unlike other boards the WICB couldhave but didn’t pay the difference andupgrade to club, business or first class ..this meant their baggage,kit etc was never priority…poor seeingthat they were attending a World Cup.The windies men have no such problems..This shows the attitude of the board towomen's cricket. What is another

surprise is that WICB didn't send arepresentative with the team apart fromthe team's management …no MediaOfficer travelled nor did any Caribbeanjournalists. Talk about negative attitudeto women's cricket. What bothers me isthe lesson it sends to the players. I wasspeaking to the Aussies on Wednesdaynight at the Taj Hotel and they have sentindividual coaches, a Media Managerand a Security Advisor, a mountain of aman who's an ex Victoria cop. England

The Team

TheManager

Sherwin

is the same. It looks as though we sentthe women here simply because the ICCpaid… it can’t be that the WICB had anyfaith in the ladies or were confident of adecent championship performance. Ifthere was a correlation between lack ofrespect, low expectation, indifferenceand performance ..then these girlswouldn’t be anywhere near the final

..that said … jumping on the band wagondon’t require much skill so I wouldn't be

surprised if a WICB rep ain’t on routehere to Mumbai for the finals.Windies women, the majority are veryyoung, are at least as talented as whatmany consider to be the top teams. Theother nations are making sure that theirwomen have the support and sameopportunities as their men. What thistournament has shown is that we cancompete with the best but WICB needsto give the players the opportunity toplay top three teams more often. If thatis done we will conquer all.If only more fans could have seenTaylor's 171 and Dottin's fastest 50. Asthe two leading batters in the team thesetwo are always under enormous pressurebut we have seen the Knight twins, pacerSmartt, off-spinner Mohammed,

all rounder Daley …who has been themost impressive Windies player for me..and last but not least …skipper MerissaAguilleira with her important knocks andimpressive captaincy. Down the linethere are many more with the talent to beworld beaters given the opportunity todevelop their skills with more tours andacademy stints. They were down and outagainst New Zealand but Daley andMohammed built a partnership to takeus to 207 by occupying the crease andmaking sure we batted all the overs. Thatsame fighting attitude led them to defenda paltry sum of 164 last Wednesdayagainst arguably the best team in theworld. Whatever happens on Sunday thewomen have made a statement to theWICB and the Caribbean fans that theycan never be taken lightly again.Australia has already counted theirchickens by openly celebrating in the TajBar on Wednesday night. One of theircoaches said to me; “...it's just acelebration of our win on Sunday”.'

!YEAH ? Well my instincts and theWindies' positive attitude says different.So more of the same ladies….ourcombined nations and I …await yoursuccess. A. Fan

StefanieTaylor

Bajans !We aresleep-

walking into astate of pork-lessness. Trylooking for

pork in Catford, most parts of EastLondon, or Small Heath and surround-ing areas in the south of Birminghamand you’ll see what we mean ! There’sno possibility that the mighty pigcould become an endangered speciesany time soon because traditionalbutchers have all but disappearedfrom many inner city areas and HighStreets. Huge chunks of of the first andsecond cities are pork free !Even a major supermarket in SmallHeath has abandoned its traditionalbutchery service - if you want to buypork or a pork product from there you’llfind it wrapped in a plastic protectivelayer in a chilled display cabinet. Notlong ago a Dominos Pizza shop justdown the road in Hall Green had to re-vert to selling pork toppings after an ‘ha-lal meat only’ policy saw sales drop byalmost half.So what’s happening ?There seems to be a major shift ...a cultur-al domination is taking place that seemsto be coinciding with white flight from

and lack ofany Africanand or Carib-bean econom-ic power in theaforemen-tioned areas.However, ifyou want ille-

gal meat or meat with serious health andhygiene concerns like ‘smokies’ ...partsof animals that are blowtorched (usuallyin unhygienic backrooms) to get a burnt

flavour...or bush-meat

..cane rat,snake,frog andthe mon-key meats

so favoured by some Africans ..thenthese are readily available and from thesame meat shops. But we cant get pork !Pork loving grandparents and parentswho would eat everything but the oink ..either laugh stupse or squirm when theiroffspring (usually third generation) sud-denly declare.. but could never give alogical reason or sensible explanationwhy …they no longer eat pork. But theylove ping cuisine ..those easy ready mademeals done in seconds in a microwave..these modern peeps would never know-ingly eat pork ..nor would they knowing-

ly eatdonkey orhorse ..butlooka ting ...they have…and havebeen fuh

years !!!Nothing beats decent puddin’ n souse, abarbecued pig tail or the enticing salivainducing aroma of bacon sizzling in thefrying pan - dunno about you ...but we’venever been woken up by the smell ofcornflakes or muesli ..nor do we everexpect to ..so we say .. till we catch him

… long live the pig !

A live cane rat !

A BBQ’d cane rat

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Meet BassReeves -a man

who went frombeing a slave tobecome the firstblack Deputy USMarshall.No one knowsexactly why Reeves

legged it into Indian territory (nowOklahoma) - some claim that he beat up hisowner George after a card game - othersbelieve that Reeves heard about the freeingof slaves and simply ran away - whichever,he ended up living with the Seminole andCreek Indians. Reeves became a crack shotwith a pistol, he later moved to Arkansasand started farming. He married NellieJennie and had five boys and five girls. Tenkids. It musta been love.In 1875 Isaac Parker was appointed federaljudge for the Indian Territory - he in turnappointed James Fagan as U.S. Marshal anddirected him to hire 200 deputy U.S.Marshals. Fagan heard about Reeves, hisknowledge of the Indian Territory and thathe could speak several Indian languages -he later recruited Reeves as a deputy U.S.Marshal and a legend was born.Reeves excelled. He was already an expertshot but he developed superior detectiveskills and by his retirement in 1907 he hadarrested over 3000 felons - including hisown son for murder.Reeves died in January 1910. A bridgecrossing the Arkansas river was namedafter him and there is a bronze statue ofhim at Pendergraft Park Fort Smith,Arkansas. Its no secret that Morgan Freemanintends make and star in a film chartingReeve’s life and exploits - meanwhile - it isclaimed that DJANGO Uncut is based

..albeit loosely .. on his character.

ELECTION 2013.RAPE AND ABUSE

OF A POST-INDEPENDENT

BARBADOS.BY

DALRYMPLE

It is with muchtrepidation and cynicism

that one awaits the outcome of the recentlycalled election. On the one hand we have avisionless indecisive ditherer and on the otherhand we have a political brigand andhighwayman willing to rape and abuse thecountry in the interest of his friends, relatives

and the ever-increasingnumber of yard fowls. Howcould a post-independentBarbados in the 21st centuryfind itself in such a situation?

How could we have ended up in suchcircumstances; between a rock and a hardplace? How we have frittered away the legacyof Grantley Adams and Errol Barrow and thegreat builders of our country, a country builton transparency, decency, integrity,accountability and goodgovernance.One despairs of the future ofan unsuspecting populace thatis swept along on a tide ofemotion while allowing therape and abuse of my country.For the very first time in mylife, I approach an election faced with thechoice of supporting neither party. I could notbring myself to vote for any of the above. Inow strongly feel that we should start amovement to take back our country from theemerging class of professional political eliteswho are only interested in their personalaggrandisement or in the enrichment of theirfriends and relatives and their party cronies,In all of this the masses and the their interestsark of adequate housing forgotten or ignored.

The country is slowly being sold to foreigninterests and Barbadians being pushed to theperiphery of all economic activity.What is more surprising is that neither partyhas the vision, will or desire to deal with or

find solutions to the problemsthat confront Barbados in the21st century. They simplyhave no ideas but seem tothink all they have to do is tobe elected and the keys to a

fortune is presented on a silver platter.It matters not one iota that neither side hasany real solutions to the ever increasing rateof unemployment, the rapid increase in therate of crime in the country,lack of adequate housing, thedisintegration of our educationsystem, the decay anddisintegration of the country’sphysical infrastructure, lack ofa significant agricultural policy, failure to dealwith the challenges of a globalisedenvironment, a health crisis that gets biggerby the day, and in all the various otherproblems that Barbadians are forced to dealwith every day.How can such a bunch of political misfits,parasitic politicians and professionalscamsters present themselves to the electoratefor consideration? The present PM is aditherer and maybe a change of leadershipmight help, but I think not. No politician thatpresided over gems, and the multiplicity ofother scams has any right to even presenthimself for further consideration. But thenagain, never in all the history of Barbados hasthere ever been a more shameless boldfacedpolitical anancy than the former PM.So in all honesty how can one vote for eitherparty? On the pain of death I might hope andpray for a change of leader in the DLP butwithout such a change, then I cannot bringmyself to vote for any of the above. Bettermust surely come, for we cannot sink anylower.

ERROLBARROW

GRANTLEYADAMS

OWENARTHUR

FREUNDELSTUART

The cartoons next door take a digat ‘chubby folk’ - but there wasno danger of getting chubby last

Saturday night at WIFFA’sValentine’s Fundraiser and Social.Don’t get us wrong - we love WIFFA tobits but incomplete table dress …ie or noplates for the bread ..er..we say bread…and this was a first for us .. we gotcroissants to eat with the soup.. er ..wesay soup ..it was a fiery opaque liquid thatstained the bottom of our rather largebowls.Then …no wine and no water glasses onthe table on arrival. We suspectedsomething was amiss when WIFFAmembers delivered the wine. The realsurprise was when waitresses handed outthose ten pence a hundred white plasticcups instead of water glasses. At £55 apop ..Flabbers were well gasted lemmetell yuh !The food was served buffet style - andvery late into the evenings proceedings-if you were fortunate enough to be on atable called early you got decent sizedportions we think - the table called last -ie yours truly - got cold nouvelle cuisinesized portions from disinterested andgrumpy serving staff worn down byadverse comment and complaint aftercomplaint.Apart from the catering let down - the restof the evening was excellent - PeteCampbell was on top form, the femalesoloist was good enough to diminish thehunger pangs ..and Mister Fixit kept thedance floor full with a great selection ofoldies. We went home full from theevening’s entertainment …but hungry ashell !

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One of the secret roots of Rastafari: These photos from the Kumbh Mela, thethree yearly Hindu festival. It reminds us of one of the usuallyunacknowledged contributions of India to Caribbean culture. Some 36000

Indians came to Jamaica between 1838 and 1917 asIndentured servants. They brought with them the Hindu ideaof the Sadhu- the ascetic wandering monk, not eating meat,growing his locks, smoking his chillum, living for things ofthe spirit - and this is one of the generally forgotten roots ofRastafarianism. Every wonder why they call it colly weed:colly weed = Kali weed. The name probably originates fromHindu goddess Kali and refers to female buds. For manysadhus, consumption of certain forms of cannabis is accordeda religious significance.A Sadhu is usually referred to as Baba by common people.

The word Baba also means father, grandfather, or unclein many Indian languages. Sometimes the respectfulsuffix - ji may also be added after Baba, to give greaterrespect to the renunciate. It is also a term ofendearment for small boys.

From a post by Prof Richard Drayton

www.donnaharris.co.uk . 020 8286 1159 . info@donnaharris.co.uk

The man is arrogant narcissistic andcripplingly incompetent …he haspresided over that many high pro-

file cock ups and u-turns that were he inthe private sector he would have beensacked long ago. His policies are allideology driven and he ignores evidence

in favour of per-sonal prejudice.MichaelGove’s opinionof multiculturalBritain appearsto be just to theright of Adolfhimself.

It seems to be Gove’s intention takeBritain firmly back in the land of theEdwardian bestseller, A Child's Historyof England. Children will learn about

"Clive of India", General Wolfe's "con-quest of Canada", Nelson, Wellingtonand Pitt. In the proposed curriculum theTolpuddle martyrsand the welfare statemake an appearance -Mary Seacole made itin but only after Rev.Jesse Jackson's letterof protest and a vocif-erous online cam-paign. Late last year Gove waspersuaded to dump her and slave aboli-tionist Olaudah Equiano from the cur-riculum. A leaked report suggestedstudents get back to basics and learnabout key figures like Cromwell andChurchill, instead of promoting ' politi-cally correct social themes'.Nobody would disagree that childrenshould have better than a working

knowledge of Britishhistory… but as fu-ture citizens of a mul-ticultural society andopen economy in aglobalised world,they are being seri-ously short-changedby the politicisednarrow minded and philistine reformsGove wants. Mary Seacole was almosterased, but other key aspects of the cur-riculum seem to have disappeared as hasthe present instruction to teach Africancivilizations before the slave trade. Afri-can history lessons that start with Euro-pean conquest not only denies blackchildren of their complete true heritage,but also shockingly distorts the view ofAfricans to white and Asian students.The saying.. ‘never leave your child’seducation completely to the state’ ringstruer and more urgent with every pass-ing day.

Olaudah Equiano

Remember Telly Savalas ? Hewas lollipop suckingDetective Kojak in a TV

series of the same name back in theseventies. He also sang a song thatincluded the lyrics …’if a picturepaints a thousand words …’ etc etc.

Well ..we’ve put a picture on the coverof our emag hoping it is selfexplanatory because we have nointention of putting any kind of story..historical, anecdotal, personal orotherwise …to it.

SO THERE !

SATURDAY 23RD MARCH 2013