It is all good fun to imagine Simon Henig as one of Durham County Council's Teaching Assistants following the closure of the University of Sunderland's Department of Politics, along with those of History and of what might have been regarded as the rather employable Modern Languages.
But the assault on the humanities is real. A Prime Minister with a Classics degree, for all that he has come a cropper in that regard recently, seems to be doing nothing about it, while it seems to be motivated in no small part by a dislike of him and of what he is seen to represent.
The fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences are all essential to the formation of communities that are capable of radical self-improvement. They are as essential as the absence of the mass chemical stupefaction that is also, and once again, being actively encouraged by those who would keep down the great mass of humanity.
I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
The fine arts, the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences are all essential to the formation of communities that are capable of radical self-improvement. They are as essential as the absence of the mass chemical stupefaction that is also, and once again, being actively encouraged by those who would keep down the great mass of humanity.
I will be standing for Parliament again here at North West Durham next time, so please give generously. In any event, please email davidaslindsay@hotmail.com. Very many thanks.
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