A Week in Links #15

• Sara McGrath explains Unschooling – educating without ‘manipulating or threatening them [children] into learning and doing things.’

• Cynthia Gorney’s Too Young to Wed -The secret world of child brides which continues despite legislation banning it, simply because these girls don’t matter in this world.  Their mothers didn’t matter and neither will their daughters or grand-daughters.

• The Bailey Report –Letting Children be Children – Report of an Independent Review of the Commercialisation and Sexualisation of Childhood – has been released.

• John Vidal and Claire Provost report on how American universities are colonising Africa.
• Mala Sen Obituaries from the Guardian and the Telegraph.  Neither particularly great, I’ll look out for a better one.

• Lynsey Hanley reviews Owen Jones’ Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class.  Definitely on my to look out for in charity shops list.

• Belle Waring on victim blaming.  Brilliant!  (Trigger warning)

• Commission a Sketch to Help Pay Legal Fees of Girl Who Refused to Cheer Her Attacker from Jason Ho.  It’s literally jaw dropping that such a terrible legal representative is actually charging.

• Naval surnames explained by the MOD.  This really tickles my fancy.

• GUN – A blog dedicated to ‘dedicated to my beloved Stitch and Scrump’.  I love it and so do the various Stitches sitting next to my screen.

• Owen Hatherley tackles the importance of Pulp.

Easiest choice of beautiful music ever – the magnificent Pulp.

Recorded live off the TV, just as it should be 🙂

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