Estão a ver porque digo que essa conversa de "centralismo soviético do Ministério da Educação" é um disparate?

Há escolas do ensino básico em que os alunos chumbam quando têm negativa a três ou mais disciplinas e outras em que estes podem passar mesmo que sejam chumbados a sete cadeiras. (...)

A situação causa incómodo, sobretudo porque a lei é aplicada e interpretada de maneira diferente de estabelecimento para estabelecimento de ensino, sendo que por vezes em escolas vizinhas existem situações díspares: alunos que chumbam com três negativas, outros que passam com sete.

Reino Unido, pais pacífico?

A Very British Assassination, por Mark Mills:

That sort of sums up how I’d felt about violence in British politics. It was rare, remote and not really that important. America had its assassinations, the French have their tradition of street protest and direct action, we have a rather staid and ritualised parliamentary democracy. We’ve not had a civil war in modern times. And extremists have never had much electoral success in Britain. While in much of Europe Communists and Socialists vied to be the voice of the left, Britain’s Labour Party has been able to brush aside challenges from Marxist parties without much difficulty. Until UKIP came along the Tories faced little serious competition on the Right and UKIP, unlike the Front National, Golden Dawn or Jobbik, doesn’t have neo-Nazi roots. It is a product of the right rather than the extreme right. (...)

But on reflection my instinct on this point was wrong. Murder may be more common in the US but the political variety seems at least as common in the UK.

For example, since 1945 three members of the US congress have been killed. (...)

By contrast, in the same period six MPs have been assassinated. Apart from Jo Cox, they were all victims of Irish paramilitary groups. And that hints at a larger point. The peaceful image of British politics that I and others had depends on putting a mental cordon around events in Northern Ireland. But there’s no good reason to do that. Despite Republican efforts, Northern Ireland remains part of the UK, and the conflict both drew in the British army and spilled over onto the mainland. And we should not forget how violent the Troubles were. Indeed they are one of the worst (and longest lasting) civil conflicts to have afflicted a developing country. They resulted in more than three and a half thousand fatalities and turned Northern Ireland into a virtual warzone for decades. And they very nearly broke Britain’s run of not having any Prime Ministers killed: had Margaret Thatcher been using a different part of her suite at the Grand Hotel in Brighton when the IRA detonated a bomb in a nearby room she would almost certainly have been killed.

Marxismo, socialismo e fascismo

José Rodrigues dos Santos argumentou que o fascismo tem origem no marxismo; na sequência da polémica que se gerou, André Azevedo Alves apresenta o que considera serem várias semelhanças entra as duas ideologias; também JRS apresentou de forma mais desenvolvida a sua tese das origens marxistas do fascismo.

O que eu vou escrever foi sobretudo pensado antes de ler o artigo de JRS, pelo que vou primeiro escrever o que pensei inicialmente e depois comentarei o artigo de JRS.

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