Good news for IT companies where most of that school bonus must surely be spent.
Depends on what route schools take. Repairs might be more urgent as there is a backlog.
If Mrs Capitano's school is anything to go by, it'll be staff. In particular, extra TAs to handle the kids who should be in special schools, were there any left.
I can't see how 400 million goes far in hiring more staff, particularly not if it's a one off as seems to be implied.
That wasn't quite the way I expected education to come up.
I wonder how that money for Bergen Belsen programmes will work in practice and how it will be allocated.
Edit - ah, now he's on to education. He's talking rubbish on OFSTED though - in the last three years OFSTED grades have become no better than guesses, so that statistic is meaningless.
A good move to teach children about the horrors of Bergen-Belsen and anti-semitism and remind them about what the British did to rescue them. Personal note here: my father was one of the doctors who had to go into the camp to help. The horror of what he witnessed was something which stayed with him all his life.
AIUI children ARE already taught about concentration camps. At least one of the teachers in my family has taken parties to such camps.
And I've done it three times. However, Bergen Belsen is not one of the ones that gets widely taught about. The death camps in the East tend to get more attention (and that includes from Yad Vashem and HET).
Silly that. Bergen Belsen is so much easier to get to. I went, as an adult, in the 70’s. Horrible.
Good news for IT companies where most of that school bonus must surely be spent.
Depends on what route schools take. Repairs might be more urgent as there is a backlog.
If Mrs Capitano's school is anything to go by, it'll be staff. In particular, extra TAs to handle the kids who should be in special schools, were there any left.
I can't see how 400 million goes far in hiring more staff, particularly not if it's a one off as seems to be implied.
It doesn't go far, but it plugs a hole in the school budget that might otherwise be plugged by laying someone off.
Bones break the same the world over, but Trick Cyclists need excellent skills in language, culture and body language, as well as understanding the benefits and legal systems. Much harder to import successfully.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
That wasn't quite the way I expected education to come up.
I wonder how that money for Bergen Belsen programmes will work in practice and how it will be allocated.
Edit - ah, now he's on to education. He's talking rubbish on OFSTED though - in the last three years OFSTED grades have become no better than guesses, so that statistic is meaningless.
A good move to teach children about the horrors of Bergen-Belsen and anti-semitism and remind them about what the British did to rescue them. Personal note here: my father was one of the doctors who had to go into the camp to help. The horror of what he witnessed was something which stayed with him all his life.
A few years back I went to a talk by the famous pilot, Captain Winkle Brown. Mrs J was heavily pregnant and uninterested in planes, but she went with me. A large part of the talk was about his experiences at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and his interrogation of the camp commandant and associates. The description of the horrors he saw there, and hatred of the people who ran the camp, was deeply affecting.
Mrs J regularly says she was glad she went, as hearing about the horrors first-hand was important.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Ouch - that's a biggie.
A few sectors are going to face a big shakeup, like IT.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Ouch - that's a biggie.
Makes an awful lot of sense. Easier to go after the businesses for non compliance than the individuals.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Bones break the same the world over, but Trick Cyclists need excellent skills in language, culture and body language, as well as understanding the benefits and legal systems. Much harder to import successfully.
iirc we are already struggling to train enough psychiatry doctors, as many meds grads don't want to go into it.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Ouch - that's a biggie.
Makes an awful lot of sense. Easier to go after the businesses for non compliance than the individuals.
Yes but there are very difficult questions of definition. It's also manifestly unfair to small consultancy companies because they are hit but the big guys aren't.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Hammond says he will extend the rules on IR35 to the private sector, but delay the changes until April 2020, and only apply them to large and medium-sized businesses.
Ouch - that's a biggie.
Whats the education count though ? 0 ?
I'm not sure, but it's not looking good!
Two so far.
Ah, OK, so my buy at 2.2 isn't too bad. At least one more please, Phil!
Bones break the same the world over, but Trick Cyclists need excellent skills in language, culture and body language, as well as understanding the benefits and legal systems. Much harder to import successfully.
iirc we are already struggling to train enough psychiatry doctors, as many meds grads don't want to go into it.
No less than 93% taking the Psychiatry exams trained overseas as I recall.
That wasn't quite the way I expected education to come up.
I wonder how that money for Bergen Belsen programmes will work in practice and how it will be allocated.
Edit - ah, now he's on to education. He's talking rubbish on OFSTED though - in the last three years OFSTED grades have become no better than guesses, so that statistic is meaningless.
A good move to teach children about the horrors of Bergen-Belsen and anti-semitism and remind them about what the British did to rescue them. Personal note here: my father was one of the doctors who had to go into the camp to help. The horror of what he witnessed was something which stayed with him all his life.
A few years back I went to a talk by the famous pilot, Captain Winkle Brown. Mrs J was heavily pregnant and uninterested in planes, but she went with me. A large part of the talk was about his experiences at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen, and his interrogation of the camp commandant and associates. The description of the horrors he saw there, and hatred of the people who ran the camp, was deeply affecting.
Mrs J regularly says she was glad she went, as hearing about the horrors first-hand was important.
I wonder if Eric Brown met your father there?
Who knows? My father was a Squadron Leader in the RAF as well as a doctor. His experiences there were one of the few things he told me about the war. He dialled down on the horrors but he always emphasised the importance of not giving in to hatred and what anti-semitic talk led to. He had spent time in Germany before the war and it was what he saw there that led him to volunteering for the RAF on his return.
A huge shift in public opinion on cannabis policy reported in The Times is not yet properly represented in our 2 major political parties.The survey suggested that 15 per cent of the population — eight million people — have used cannabis in the past year. A majority of people across almost every age group, gender, social class and region now supports legalisation. Among those aged over 65 support is at 49 per cent.
Blair Gibbs, a former justice and policing adviser to Michael Gove who now works for the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis campaign group, said: “Prohibition is no longer seen as the smart and responsible policy.”
Good. Not everybody has kids - we all have to drive over potholes though.
Nope.
20% of households don't have access to a car.
17% of women born in 1970 haven't had kids.
But those who don't have access to a car, still use public transport. So more benefit.....
For those that use buses rather than trains, maybe. But my biggest shock when I caught the bus the other day was "how the **** is this £6.70?" rather than "gosh, there are a few potholes"; and the reason it's £6.70 is because our underfunded county council has removed all bus subsidies. Thanks, Phil.
Bones break the same the world over, but Trick Cyclists need excellent skills in language, culture and body language, as well as understanding the benefits and legal systems. Much harder to import successfully.
iirc we are already struggling to train enough psychiatry doctors, as many meds grads don't want to go into it.
No less than 93% taking the Psychiatry exams trained overseas as I recall.
Bones break the same the world over, but Trick Cyclists need excellent skills in language, culture and body language, as well as understanding the benefits and legal systems. Much harder to import successfully.
iirc we are already struggling to train enough psychiatry doctors, as many meds grads don't want to go into it.
No less than 93% taking the Psychiatry exams trained overseas as I recall.
Is it me or is Hammond having quite a good time of it?
Yeah: he seems to have a bit of mojo about him.
He always does at the budget, to be fair.
Hammond is a decent chap and does a brilliant job at budget and spring statement, but he doesn't seem to see it as his role to talk up the economy throughout the year...
Good news for IT companies where most of that school bonus must surely be spent.
Depends on what route schools take. Repairs might be more urgent as there is a backlog.
If Mrs Capitano's school is anything to go by, it'll be staff. In particular, extra TAs to handle the kids who should be in special schools, were there any left.
I can't see how 400 million goes far in hiring more staff, particularly not if it's a one off as seems to be implied.
It doesn't go far, but it plugs a hole in the school budget that might otherwise be plugged by laying someone off.
Schools are well and truly due a shake up, having had it shockingly easy for the last twenty years. More flab than a super obese fun run.
Bones break the same the world over, but Trick Cyclists need excellent skills in language, culture and body language, as well as understanding the benefits and legal systems. Much harder to import successfully.
iirc we are already struggling to train enough psychiatry doctors, as many meds grads don't want to go into it.
No less than 93% taking the Psychiatry exams trained overseas as I recall.
No FEWER, Doctor, no FEWER!!!
Surely a percentage is always "less", not being a discrete number but a proportion? [pedant off]
Good news for IT companies where most of that school bonus must surely be spent.
Depends on what route schools take. Repairs might be more urgent as there is a backlog.
If Mrs Capitano's school is anything to go by, it'll be staff. In particular, extra TAs to handle the kids who should be in special schools, were there any left.
I can't see how 400 million goes far in hiring more staff, particularly not if it's a one off as seems to be implied.
It doesn't go far, but it plugs a hole in the school budget that might otherwise be plugged by laying someone off.
Schools are well and truly due a shake up, having had it shockingly easy for the last twenty years. More flab than a super obese fun run.
Good. Not everybody has kids - we all have to drive over potholes though.
Nope.
20% of households don't have access to a car.
17% of women born in 1970 haven't had kids.
But those who don't have access to a car, still use public transport. So more benefit.....
For those that use buses rather than trains, maybe. But my biggest shock when I caught the bus the other day was "how the **** is this £6.70?" rather than "gosh, there are a few potholes"; and the reason it's £6.70 is because our underfunded county council has removed all bus subsidies. Thanks, Phil.
The pensioners' bus pass has a great deal to do with this. It has been disastrous for rural bus services in particular.
Good news for IT companies where most of that school bonus must surely be spent.
Depends on what route schools take. Repairs might be more urgent as there is a backlog.
If Mrs Capitano's school is anything to go by, it'll be staff. In particular, extra TAs to handle the kids who should be in special schools, were there any left.
I can't see how 400 million goes far in hiring more staff, particularly not if it's a one off as seems to be implied.
It doesn't go far, but it plugs a hole in the school budget that might otherwise be plugged by laying someone off.
Schools are well and truly due a shake up, having had it shockingly easy for the last twenty years. More flab than a super obese fun run.
Is that a statement that Gove was a failure?
A misguided desire to protect education and health funding meant the austerity chop came on much harder on everywhere else.
His toilet related puns. Awful. Really not sure where the adult stuff comes from.
All very well for you men. You can go and pee anywhere - and a few weeks ago late at night I saw a man openly relieving himself in front of a Waitrose, without even making any attempt to be discreet, for God’s sake! - but we ladies can’t and don’t want to have to go into a coffee shop and buy their bloody awful cappuccinos just to use the loo.
Assured delivery by Hammond. I've had a few quid on him for next Tory leader at 70.0 and 75.0.
In a rational world he would be favourite. However, as you will no doubt be informed by some of our more intense Leavers, the hatred of the Brexit purists for him surpasseth all understanding.
Other than that he has no discernable ideology, never mind leadership aura about him. And that his political instincts are not always reliable.
His toilet related puns. Awful. Really not sure where the adult stuff comes from.
All very well for you men. You can go and pee anywhere - and a few weeks ago late at night I saw a man openly relieving himself in front of a Waitrose, without even making any attempt to be discreet, for God’s sake! - but we ladies can’t and don’t want to have to go into a coffee shop and buy their bloody awful cappuccinos just to use the loo.
I wish that was the case for all women. The number of 'squatters' is on the increase. We do need a proper public toilet network - but I can't see that happening sadly.
His toilet related puns. Awful. Really not sure where the adult stuff comes from.
All very well for you men. You can go and pee anywhere - and a few weeks ago late at night I saw a man openly relieving himself in front of a Waitrose, without even making any attempt to be discreet, for God’s sake! - but we ladies can’t and don’t want to have to go into a coffee shop and buy their bloody awful cappuccinos just to use the loo.
I'm sure if you ask them very very nicely they will hold the Chocolate sprinkles.
His toilet related puns. Awful. Really not sure where the adult stuff comes from.
All very well for you men. You can go and pee anywhere - and a few weeks ago late at night I saw a man openly relieving himself in front of a Waitrose, without even making any attempt to be discreet, for God’s sake! - but we ladies can’t and don’t want to have to go into a coffee shop and buy their bloody awful cappuccinos just to use the loo.
Wasn’t there a She-wee device on Dragons Den some years ago? I seem to recall the Army took it up.
The predictions were for low growth as far as the eye can see and for the deficit to come down, and the taps have been turned on a bit, so the cash is coming in from somewhere. He's either hiding it in the supplementary papers or the next bit is going to feel like a pre-Halloween massacre.
His toilet related puns. Awful. Really not sure where the adult stuff comes from.
All very well for you men. You can go and pee anywhere - and a few weeks ago late at night I saw a man openly relieving himself in front of a Waitrose, without even making any attempt to be discreet, for God’s sake! - but we ladies can’t and don’t want to have to go into a coffee shop and buy their bloody awful cappuccinos just to use the loo.
Wasn’t there a She-wee device on Dragons Den some years ago? I seem to recall the Army took it up.
On time, weirdly, Ladbrokes had evens for 55-60 minutes and about 5 for over 60. I didn't back anything at all on this market, though, so no idea about that or if the three terms I mentioned earlier came off.
On time, weirdly, Ladbrokes had evens for 55-60 minutes and about 5 for over 60. I didn't back anything at all on this market, though, so no idea about that or if the three terms I mentioned earlier came off.
Yes the budget is unusually long, +60 mins looks like a great bet in hindsight though. Not just hindsight, it could have been easily calculated by referring to the SPIN times...
The predictions were for low growth as far as the eye can see and for the deficit to come down, and the taps have been turned on a bit, so the cash is coming in from somewhere. He's either hiding it in the supplementary papers or the next bit is going to feel like a pre-Halloween massacre.
It's going to be the first of those two, surely?
He did say at the beginning that he had some extra money. Which he is now spending.
His toilet related puns. Awful. Really not sure where the adult stuff comes from.
All very well for you men. You can go and pee anywhere - and a few weeks ago late at night I saw a man openly relieving himself in front of a Waitrose, without even making any attempt to be discreet, for God’s sake! - but we ladies can’t and don’t want to have to go into a coffee shop and buy their bloody awful cappuccinos just to use the loo.
The predictions were for low growth as far as the eye can see and for the deficit to come down, and the taps have been turned on a bit, so the cash is coming in from somewhere. He's either hiding it in the supplementary papers or the next bit is going to feel like a pre-Halloween massacre.
It's going to be the first of those two, surely?
Many of these announcements are utterly trivial and will make no difference to the public accounts.
IT a bit of a surprise. I wonder if the Scottish government will pass it on this time.
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Ouch - that's a biggie.
Mrs J regularly says she was glad she went, as hearing about the horrors first-hand was important.
I wonder if Eric Brown met your father there?
20% of households don't have access to a car.
17% of women born in 1970 haven't had kids.
Blair Gibbs, a former justice and policing adviser to Michael Gove who now works for the Centre for Medicinal Cannabis campaign group, said: “Prohibition is no longer seen as the smart and responsible policy.”
Politicians take note.
Hammond is a decent chap and does a brilliant job at budget and spring statement, but he doesn't seem to see it as his role to talk up the economy throughout the year...
You are sentenced to watch The Last Jedi 5 times through while eating a pizza with extra pineapple.
Perhaps he has been advised by the same person who came up with Dancing Queen as entry music.
Either way, there does seem to be a bit more presentational flair going on.
Also he has given Remain MPs lots of mentions so far - greasing the wheels?
It's going to be the first of those two, surely?
Will they be enough?
https://twitter.com/NIHargrave/status/1056891139922558977
I am not looking forward to her becoming my MP post boundary changes.
IT a bit of a surprise. I wonder if the Scottish government will pass it on this time.
https://twitter.com/Torcuil/status/1056950149849722883