‘I do not believe a Jew can ever be a referee at that level (Argentine Premier League) because it’s hard work and, you know, Jews don’t like hard work.’

FIFA senior vice-president and chair of Finance Committee, Julio Grondona, 5 July 2003. Buenos Aires

‘Lying and deception and bad faith are standard operating procedure at FIFA.’

Adam C. Silverstein, a lawyer for MasterCard in their successful action against FIFA, New York, December 1, 2006

The other day I saw a vomit inducing article online about the government's response to a petition to allow teachers from Commonwealth countries to work in the UK without having to go to all the trouble of going through the full process of gaining QTS. It was nothing but long winded management speak about requirements to maintain the 'highest of standards' in education. The fact that almost everyone looks down on the UK system seems to escape them. UNICEF carried out a survey in 2007 that looked at the wellbeing of children and the UK finished 22nd out of 22 countries. Last year a university in London compared results from a standardized test to those of children about 30 years ago and found the more recent results were lower. From that you could say that you would have been better off in a school over 30 years ago than today. Then when you throw the increasing number of unqualified staff doing more and more teaching into the mix you aren't really talking about the highest of standards at all. More like the cheapest.

"When I was coming up, it was a dangerous world and we knew exactly who the they were. It was us versus them and it was clear who them was. Today, we're not so sure who the they are, but we know they're there."

"Gain wealth, forgetting all but self, a demeaning and degrading doctrine that had to be driven into people's heads with no little violence. Normal human sentiments had to be crushed; they are inconsistent with capitalist ideology, which celebrates private profit as the supreme human value and denies people rights beyond what they can salvage in the labor market."

"Established institutions, with overwhelmingly dominant power, tend to line up in goose-step fashion in support of any state foreign venture, no matter how immoral (until the cost becomes too high)."

"The process of barring public interference with important matters takes a step forward when elections do not even enable the public to select among programs that originate elsewhere, but become merely a procedure for selecting a symbolic figure."

"All public resources go to the rich. The poor, if they can survive in the labor market, fine. Otherwise, they die. That's economics in a nutshell."

By Noam Chomsky

"If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged."