Michiel Willems LLM MA is based in central London as an international journalist in broadcast and print. With global study and work experience and an open mind, he works as a freelance writer, radio reporter and full time journalist. He has developed an interest in the stories behind the news, the facts behind the stories and the people behind the facts. This website displays only own work, unless otherwise stated. UK copyright laws apply at all times.
Friday, 31 August 2007
Village idiot
Tory leader David Cameron declares that ‘social responsibility means understanding and acting on that age-old maxim that it takes a village to raise a child’. This embarrassingly glib sound bite was popularised by US Democrat presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. Some of her critics now sport t-shirts saying ‘it takes a village idiot to for Hillary’ (Daily Mail)