MembersNEWNew in the Members’ Room: James Panton gives talks defending freedom in London and in Edinburgh ; Suzy Dean has a blog on youth engagement; Josie Appleton will be debating booze bans at Sussex University; Michele Ledda's petition against banning of a poem from the school curriculum has more than 100 signatures; Dolan Cummings writes on how anti-smokers are stubbing out liberty; Josie Appleton is discussing cities at a conference in Moscow; Manick Govinda has produced a new London exhibition. New on the Vetting Blog: Tenants turfed out for refusing to fill in forms; CRB checking tooth fairy; Children’s authors under suspicion; Flats halted because balconies have ‘view of school’. Read on… |
Citizenship Test: ResultsNotification of Results: by the event organisers, Tom Mower, Julie Hill and Simon Elvins For the benefit of those who missed out on the latest club night, and to remind those who attended: No one passed the Great British Citizenship Pub Quiz. This result was genuinely surprising. With a pass mark of 18 out of 24, the scores registered on the night ranged from 3 to 17. It should be pointed that out the questions used were all taken from the Life in the UK Test: Practise Questions book, and compiled in such a way that demonstrated a full range from the bizarre to the difficult. If the confused look on the faces of people around the room was anything to go by, it is obvious how far off the mark the Test must be from assessing British culture/society and citizenship. Turned the other way around, the only candidate that really failed on the night was, of course, the test itself. Thank you to all those who turned up to sit the quiz. Tom, Julie & Simon |
The Manifesto Club supports:Historians campaigning against 'memory laws'... 'Enlightenment is humanity's emergence from self-imposed immaturity. Dare to know! Have courage to use your own understanding!' Immanuel Kant 'What characterises man is his extreme abundance of imagination; therefore, that man is a fantastic animal and that universal history is the gigantic, continuous and insistent effort to go, little by little, putting some order into the crazy fantasy.' José Ortega y Gasset |