Prospects for Wednesday, 12 December
- 12 Dec 07, 12:01 PM
Today's output editor is Liz Gibbons. Here's her morning e-mail to the production team.
We have an investigation Richard Watson and Nick Menzies have been working on about Muslim extremism. More details later.
Gerry Robinson is still trying to save the NHS - an update of his documentary goes out tonight at 9pm on 主播大秀2. Gerry Robinson is coming on to discuss his latest findings with the Chief Exec of the NHS, David Nicholson.
That leaves us room for one or two other stories - what do you fancy?
Brown's new Afghan policy? Police pay - could we find out who the disgruntled ministers are?
It's Brown's last PMQs of the year too.
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How about the survey commissioned by the 主播大秀 that found that fewer than a third of Britons believe the 主播大秀 performs well when it comes to accurate news reporting?
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LIVER SENSE
As I understand it, the Stern report was about 鈥渃ommercial constraint鈥 of Carbon release. Well why not apply the same commercial constraint as a start to reining in alcohol?
Let鈥檚 bill all the 鈥渁lcoholic liver costs鈥 to the breweries (or importers). This should persuade the booze industry to use its prodigious advertising cunning in the promotion of moderate consumption. OK, they might end up unfairly charged on occasion, but that is the nature of any tax. I doubt they will go out of business.
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LIVER SENSE
As I understand it, the Stern report was about 鈥渃ommercial constraint鈥 of Carbon release. Well why not apply the same commercial constraint as a start to reining in alcohol?
Let鈥檚 bill all the 鈥渁lcoholic liver costs鈥 to the breweries (or importers). This should persuade the booze industry to use its prodigious advertising cunning in the promotion of moderate consumption. OK, they might end up unfairly charged on occasion, but that is the nature of any tax. I doubt they will go out of business.
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School uniforms perhaps?
Anything bad about america is always good.
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What about the recent comments about the rising birth rate, and the debate about whether the mothers are 'British' despite having citizenship and often having been brought up in this country ?
And linked to the debate about 'British jobs for British workers' having been ruled 'out of order' ?
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EXTINCTION IS GOOD
With a TFR of 1.1 a population halves in 30 years (ignoring ageing, the elderly die off and THEN the horror becomes painfully obvious). With a TFR of 1.5 (the low estimate for the indigenous White British, see below) a population halves in just under 65 years.
So, we would appear to be trading long term genetic survival for short term hedonism. Meanwhile, we import (and probably breed) people with higher than replacement level TFRs (2.1) with some asserting that this will compensate.
Alas, these are people with lower native ability (IQ). This no doubt makes them good consumers (and breeders of good consumers) but who is this good for in the long run?
Who would actively encourage such a pattern of behaviour? Are we to put this all down to the wisdom of 'market forces' (i.e. 'natural' selection)?
Meanwhile, New Labour makes it all demonstrably worse through 'Education, Education, Education' and more Equalities legislation, Human Rights (EU FCHR) etc. See the PISA results for 2006.
Is this good for all, or is it just good for those who profit from predatory economics?
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EXTINCTION IS GOOD
With a TFR of 1.1 a population halves in 30 years (ignoring ageing, the elderly die off and THEN the horror becomes painfully obvious). With a TFR of 1.5 (the low estimate for the indigenous White British, see below) a population halves in just under 65 years.
So, we would appear to be trading long term genetic survival for short term hedonism. Meanwhile, we import (and probably breed) people with higher than replacement level TFRs (2.1) with some asserting that this will compensate.
Alas, these are people with lower native ability (IQ). This no doubt makes them good consumers (and breeders of good consumers) but who is this good for in the long run?
Who would actively encourage such a pattern of behaviour? Are we to put this all down to the wisdom of 'market forces' (i.e. 'natural' selection)?
Meanwhile, New Labour makes it all demonstrably worse through 'Education, Education, Education' and more Equalities legislation, Human Rights (EU FCHR) etc (which makes brighter women breed at a lower rate). See the PISA results for 2006 for evidence of the insidious consequences.
Is this 'good for all' Newspeak, or is it just good for those who profit from predatory economics/politics?
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Italian fuel tax protests, comming here on Saturday !
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As Registration of Births does not collect the ethnicity of the mother, just whether she was born in the UK, strictly, the 2002 TFR of 1.5 also includes British Blacks & British Asians. If 20% of UK births are to mothers who were not born in the UK, just how many are to 1st & 2nd generation New Commonwealth mothers born in Britain?
For proxy evidence (i.e. to supplement the now well documented negative TFR with education level which has been replicated every 2 years in the USA, and we know from UK cohort evidence that 1/3 of graduates remain childless), given the high correlation of SES with education level/IQ, have a look at the figures below, especially tables 11.5 and 11.1, bearing in mind that one needs to do some a little work to undo these agencies' hard work. Add together the total births for each SES group, across the above two tables, and leave SES 2 and 3 out when scatter-plotting them (for what should be obvious reasons when one eyeballs the data).
What one finds in one liberal democratic country generally applies in others. Bearing in mind endogamy, assortive mating and the politically incorrect, but well replicated international data on ethnicity, IQ and crime in conjunction with 'Education, Education, Education' (followed usually by 'work, work, work'), where does the data and the logic suggest that we are heading? We are not alone either:
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