A large fraction of Jamaicans grow up speaking Jamaican creole, and when they later go to school and have to use English without having used it before, many fail. Jamaica is now considering converting the schools to a bilingual curriculum designed to teach children both languages.

It is well established that a carefully designed bilingual curriculum is effective at graduating students who can speak and write both languages — more effective than dumping students precipitously into taking class using a language they don't really know. Americans who want to make sure immigrant Hispanic children in the US become good in English should support bilingual education.

I suspect that the opposition many right-wing Americans display towards this is a way of venting resentment at those children for being present in the US, not a serious effort to help them learn English.

* Fatih Birol, The ED of the International Energy Agency said: "New large-scale fossil fuel projects not only carry major climate risks, but also business and financial risks for the companies and their investors."*

In other words, those investors are making a big mistake even in narrow terms of their own profit.

If they don't care about dooming civilization, let's hope that they heed his advice. But they may not.

I suspect that "investment" in fossil fuels is driven to a large extent by inside influence exercised by fuel barons who expect to profit from getting institutions other people's money into the companies the barons will profit from.

Now, before the election which Labour is likely to win, is when voters would be wise to demand it reverse the choice of narrow spending limits that will prevent fixing most of what's broken in Britain.

Just as the US forfeited the world's sympathy for the September 2001 terror attacks when it used them as an excuse to attack Iraq, Israel can forfeit the world's sympathy for HAMAS's terrorism if it uses that as an excuse for massive war crimes in Gaza.

*The Achilles' Heel Of Propaganda — Julian Assange, Nick Cohen And Russell Brand.*

This describes how the mainstream media, in unison, work to boost sexual accusations against some people, and bury charges against others, in each case with little regard to the truth.

I know a fair amount about the campaign to destroy Julian Assange for his work as a journalist for Wikileaks, and I see how sex accusations were faked and used as an excuse to prosecute him for journalism.

By contrast, I have barely heard of Nick Cohen and Russell Brand (the famous British one), and know almost nothing about them. I do not watch TV, I refuse to have a TV cable connection (it has DRM and it snoops on what user watch — both of which I reject as injustice), and I have hardly ever seen an article by Nick Cohen in the places I find articles.