Doug Belshaw
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Emeritus Prof Christopher May
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The idea of that young people lack grit, or need to build resilience as part of their education, as a way of seeking to reverse the mental health crisis among out young people is really just more 'victim blaming';

we need not just to support young people but ask: what is it about modern life (in the UK) that causes such anguish & mental health difficulties?

Otherwise we are just trying to deal with the symptom(s) not the cause of the problem.

#MentalHealth #politics
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/may/16/grit-no-substitute-for-extra-mental-health-funding-for-pupils-in-england-say-experts
Strypey
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"What's different about a liberal democracy, as opposed to an *illiberal* democracy, is there are a lot of things majorities cannot do. They must protect minority rights. That's why we have the Bill of Rights, why we have the First Amendment."

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We judge a liberal democracy by; does it tolerate ... the speech of minorities, who take very different views from the majority. "

, 2025

econtalk.org/why-christianity-

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Strypey
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"Television stations also claim knowledge which far exceeds the reach of their vehicles, cameras, and work routines. Though the van was manifestly there in the street beside me and nowhere else, it could claim to be everywhere by virtue of its knowledge. Knowing the universal laws by which news can be identified, the station’s eye was effectively all-seeing, despite the modest appearance and restricted ambit of its rather small van."

#DavidCayley, 2021

https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2021/4/1/gaia-and-the-path-of-the-earth
Strypey
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"Things that have no voice still speak. The ravaged wetland that once absorbed spring runoff speaks, often without anyone hearing, as a downstream flood. Microbial antibiotic resistance transforms agriculture and health care. But these matters have no political representation, so long as the sciences believe that their standing, authority and integrity rest on their having nothing to do with politics."

#DavidCayley, 2021

https://www.davidcayley.com/blog/2021/4/1/gaia-and-the-path-of-the-earth

#science #politics