{"id":539,"date":"2010-08-04T22:26:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T21:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=539"},"modified":"2010-09-13T10:17:33","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T09:17:33","slug":"educating-dave-five-things-cameron-should-know-about-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=539","title":{"rendered":"Educating Dave: Five things Cameron should know about Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Shepherd<\/a>
In the Kaghan valley, NW Pakistan. Yes, it's a rifle - but he's just a shepherd boy.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Where this blog leads, greater minds will follow. Or at least so it seems from today’s comments by Simon Tisdall<\/a> in The Guardian<\/em>. His learning objectives (or LOs, to use the ghastly initials that stalk education these days) are:<\/p>\n

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  1. Terror<\/strong>: ‘When it comes to fighting terror, a bit of the famous Cameron humility might not be out of place.’<\/li>\n
  2. Af-Pak border<\/strong>: ‘This problem was made in Britain.’ (Well, I could have told him that…)<\/li>\n
  3. Kashmir<\/strong>: once a kind of paradise in the Himalayas, Kashmir is now described as ‘the most dangerous place in the world. It’s an issue that a “plain speaking” PM should not try to dodge.’<\/li>\n
  4. Democracy<\/strong>: ‘Who d’you want to deal with, Dave? Pakistani democrats, with all their failings, or another dictator?’<\/li>\n
  5. People<\/strong>: ‘International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell said: “Pakistan is facing an education emergency…. More needs to be done. Doubling Britain’s annual \u00a3130m aid to Pakistan would be an audacious move at a time of domestic financial austerity. But it would serve the British national interest.’ Indeed, and we Mirandanetters<\/a> stand ready to answer our country’s call once again<\/a>! I think I’ve still got Teach Yourself Urdu<\/em> somewhere….<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Where this blog leads, greater minds will follow. Or at least so it seems from comments by Simon Tisdall on Cameron in India in The Guardian.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[89,93,90,73,91],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","tag-afghanistan","tag-india","tag-pakistan","tag-prime-minister","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":549,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}