He really is the intelligent man's lefty who does his homework. He demonstrates 2 things. Firstly, that the trends on excess winter deaths are on a downward trend and unrelated to energy prices per se. Secondly, that the policies espoused by a certain Ed Miliband amongst others whilst in office improving our existing housing stock and improving energy efficiency really worked. There is a strong correlation between the age of your house (note not size or value but age) and excess winter deaths. Good insulation works.
All of this demonstrates to me that Ed (a) is not totally useless but (b) is shameless in promoting a policy that threatens the funding for such programs. Mr Sen laments that the successes of the policies that Ed promoted in office are not getting a look in. It is indeed a shame.
Isn't the funding threatened by the Tories wanting to get rid of the green levies they used to be so keen on?
No I think the plan is to fund these policies out of general taxation so they are funded by people like us on decent earnings rather than by the poor.
Expect a 'struggling "middle income" Labour voting household on £75k' to be along to complain shortly.....
Is it just me or have we lost our edit function? Given my brain efficiency at this time of the day (and much of the rest of it to be honest) this is a problem.
Better not let those private school teachers loose on our state schools. Things would get *even* worse:
'In spite of these great advantages there is room for doubt about the educational superiority of our private schools. One little reported finding from the last PISA results was that, once account has been taken of the socio-economic background of pupils, state schools in the UK outperform private schools by a considerable margin. In fact the gap in this country is much greater than it is across the OECD as a whole where state schools have only a slight performance advantage over private schools'
Interesting stuff today from Tim Monty about what voters recall - 41% apparently can't name a single significant political story of the last few weeks.
He really is the intelligent man's lefty who does his homework. He demonstrates 2 things. Firstly, that the trends on excess winter deaths are on a downward trend and unrelated to energy prices per se. Secondly, that the policies espoused by a certain Ed Miliband amongst others whilst in office improving our existing housing stock and improving energy efficiency really worked. There is a strong correlation between the age of your house (note not size or value but age) and excess winter deaths. Good insulation works.
All of this demonstrates to me that Ed (a) is not totally useless but (b) is shameless in promoting a policy that threatens the funding for such programs. Mr Sen laments that the successes of the policies that Ed promoted in office are not getting a look in. It is indeed a shame.
Isn't the funding threatened by the Tories wanting to get rid of the green levies they used to be so keen on?
No I think the plan is to fund these policies out of general taxation so they are funded by people like us on decent earnings rather than by the poor. At least I certainly hope so. The evidence that these policies actually do good (whatever one thinks of the temperature of the planet) is quite compelling.
If they work it would be ridiculous to drop the schemes. We'll see if the government is "brave" enough to face down the headlines about robbing Peter to pay Paul.
Better not let those private school teachers loose on our state schools. Things would get *even* worse:
'In spite of these great advantages there is room for doubt about the educational superiority of our private schools. One little reported finding from the last PISA results was that, once account has been taken of the socio-economic background of pupils, state schools in the UK outperform private schools by a considerable margin. In fact the gap in this country is much greater than it is across the OECD as a whole where state schools have only a slight performance advantage over private schools'
"This indicates that much of the 'success' of our private schools can be attributed to the very distinctive nature of their intake rather than their educational excellence. It's surprising that this highly significant finding has been almost entirely overlooked in public discussion about this topic."
If you select the brightest pupils from well-off families, put them in small classes surrounded by the finest facilities it does not take a brain surgeon to work out that they will tend to perform well - whoever is teaching them.
Is it just me or have we lost our edit function? Given my brain efficiency at this time of the day (and much of the rest of it to be honest) this is a problem.
The edit button should be working again, not sure why it stopped working in the first place.
He really is the intelligent man's lefty who does his homework. He demonstrates 2 things. Firstly, that the trends on excess winter deaths are on a downward trend and unrelated to energy prices per se. Secondly, that the policies espoused by a certain Ed Miliband amongst others whilst in office improving our existing housing stock and improving energy efficiency really worked. There is a strong correlation between the age of your house (note not size or value but age) and excess winter deaths. Good insulation works.
All of this demonstrates to me that Ed (a) is not totally useless but (b) is shameless in promoting a policy that threatens the funding for such programs. Mr Sen laments that the successes of the policies that Ed promoted in office are not getting a look in. It is indeed a shame.
Isn't the funding threatened by the Tories wanting to get rid of the green levies they used to be so keen on?
No I think the plan is to fund these policies out of general taxation so they are funded by people like us on decent earnings rather than by the poor.
Expect a 'struggling "middle income" Labour voting household on £75k' to be along to complain shortly.....
More progressive taxation from the coalition.....
You are obsessed. If you don't want me to talk about the issue, why keep raising it?
Better not let those private school teachers loose on our state schools. Things would get *even* worse:
Interesting article!
So if this really is about the state's duty of care to its children, should the Hon Hunt and Clegg not insist that QTS is extended to the independent sector too?
Tho I do think the headmaster of the Brighton School on Newsnight last night had a bigger point - the lack of "qualified" Maths & Physics teachers who don't have the relevant degree.....
On Twitter, rumours that Maldonado's money has gotten him a seat at Lotus have been joined by new ones that Chilton's will get him a Force India seat. ONe would be a travesty, both would be the clearest possible sign that something must be done to put the teams on a more stable and secure financial footing.
Leaving aside Hulkenberg, Bianchi (Chilton's team mate) has comprehensively kicked his arse and is the best driver of the backmarker teams. If anyone gets a move up the grid from there it should be him, and then Pic.
Hulkenberg is arguably the best non-world champion on the grid. If that can't get him a decent seat then the sport is broken.
The phoney 'ordinary folk' in Labour's TV broadcast: Millionaire restaurateur and Guardian journalist among interviewees saying they cannot afford fuel bills
I am just off to work, but will read and comment on it later, after the trick and treaters have faded away.
There is some truth to it, but it is perhaps inevitable with the feminisation of the medical workforce and more part time working. Doctors are a different bunch to 30 years ago. The "knife before life, knife before wife" culture of my youth has gone into history. It probably needed to do so, but has consequences.
"One of the causes of unnecessary admissions is the NHS’s failure to provide a consistent seven-day service, the report said. Care worsens significantly at weekends because consultants are not present to ensure a proper assessment of patients’ needs, the NAO said, suggesting that their contracts should be rewritten.
Reduced access to senior doctors at weekends leads to “unnecessary admissions and sub-optimal care,” the auditors concluded. Patients are more likely to die after weekend admissions than during the working week, the NAO said. The “variable” quality of GP care is also linked to higher A&E attendance, as is Britain’s “growing frail, elderly population”, the report found.
A government target for all A&E cases to be dealt with in four hours is also driving up admissions rates, as staff are resorting to admitting patients shortly before they reach the deadline, instead of administering appropriate treatment. A&E admissions are rising, putting the entire NHS under increasing pressure, the report said. Figures show there were 5.3 million emergency hospital admissions in 2012-13, an increase of 12 per cent in just five years. In the past 15 years, the number of people admitted for short stays has more than doubled.
The NHS is now spending more than £12 billion a year – almost a tenth of its budget – on emergency services.
Labour caught out by The Mail, either they want to gain more publicity for the clusterfu*k or they are even incompetent, and out of touch than I thought.
Must be the same group which were squealing over cuts to CB last year. The ordinary people on £75K are usually the preserve of The Telegraph and almost as unrepresentative.
They won't get far criticising Jack Monroe. I don't agree with her on some things, but she's got some crucial points to make. She should be a poster-girl not just for austerity, but for working hard to pull yourself out of a difficult place.
Better not let those private school teachers loose on our state schools. Things would get *even* worse:
Interesting article!
So if this really is about the state's duty of care to its children, should the Hon Hunt and Clegg not insist that QTS is extended to the independent sector too?
Tho I do think the headmaster of the Brighton School on Newsnight last night had a bigger point - the lack of "qualified" Maths & Physics teachers who don't have the relevant degree.....
That's massively the bigger issue. And consistency/quality of QTS.
What do you expect? A smear story in The Daily Mail Labour Uncut?
"We can take the rather complicated explanation, that the Labour Party first conspired to create a situation out of Falkirk much bigger than it actually was, because belligerent Ed Miliband was out looking for a fight with the unions (don’t laugh, this is what some people are spinning).
And then, that in the same tiny area of Scotland, there was simultaneously a conspiracy by someone else (a multinational presumably not in league with the Labour party, if Miliband’s recent statements on big business are anything to go by): to victimise one of the people implicated in the Falkirk controversy, Stephen Deans.
Or we could take the alternative hypothesis: that Britain’s biggest union was completely out of control in Scotland, with the connivance of its general secretary."
Better not let those private school teachers loose on our state schools. Things would get *even* worse:
'In spite of these great advantages there is room for doubt about the educational superiority of our private schools. One little reported finding from the last PISA results was that, once account has been taken of the socio-economic background of pupils, state schools in the UK outperform private schools by a considerable margin. In fact the gap in this country is much greater than it is across the OECD as a whole where state schools have only a slight performance advantage over private schools'
"This indicates that much of the 'success' of our private schools can be attributed to the very distinctive nature of their intake rather than their educational excellence. It's surprising that this highly significant finding has been almost entirely overlooked in public discussion about this topic."
If you select the brightest pupils from well-off families, put them in small classes surrounded by the finest facilities it does not take a brain surgeon to work out that they will tend to perform well - whoever is teaching them.
Do all you people who trot out the Mail story about Labour's PPB get a press release from CCO to tell you to do so?
I've just looked at it again and it's exactly what it says it is. The 'millionaire restaurateur' is appearing as a restaurateur and all the rest are what they purport to be. Even if it was a vox pop ad it would be acceptable and the rules for those are much stricter than for a PPB.
Interesting stuff today from Tim Monty about what voters recall - 41% apparently can't name a single significant political story of the last few weeks.
That puts PB into context.
Yes, that's right. We think of politics as a continuous process, like a marriage, with good and bad things influencing it from day to day. For most people it's much more like a visit from relatives a few times a year - in between they barely think about them and how they think of them remains absolutely stable. Apart from black swans, most people pay attention to leaders' speeches at conferences, Budgets, Queen's Speeches (a bit), actual election campaigns and er that's it. Even most black swans flap by without noticeable reaction (Grangemouth is a good example, and I doubt if the current trial will influence voting much either).
He really is the intelligent man's lefty who does his homework. He demonstrates 2 things. Firstly, that the trends on excess winter deaths are on a downward trend and unrelated to energy prices per se. Secondly, that the policies espoused by a certain Ed Miliband amongst others whilst in office improving our existing housing stock and improving energy efficiency really worked. There is a strong correlation between the age of your house (note not size or value but age) and excess winter deaths. Good insulation works.
All of this demonstrates to me that Ed (a) is not totally useless but (b) is shameless in promoting a policy that threatens the funding for such programs. Mr Sen laments that the successes of the policies that Ed promoted in office are not getting a look in. It is indeed a shame.
Whatever the merits of the price freeze, I don't think (b) is a reasonable conclusion. The insulation programme is not some optional scheme thought up by the kindly energy companies. It's the law, and will be entirely unaffected by the freeze. The only possible threat on the horizon is the plan to transfer the cost to taxation, where the ring-fencing may prove a little shakier as some MPs clearly dislike the whole "green subsidies" concept and Cameron has been rhetorically indulging them.
Interesting stuff today from Tim Monty about what voters recall - 41% apparently can't name a single significant political story of the last few weeks.
That puts PB into context.
Most non-stories really are non-stories.
Look at this thread so far. The restaurateur in Labour's ppb is exposed as being a restaurateur. Bob-a-job is probably right about Falkirk too -- it does not register as anything other than a story about one set of overprivileged wannabes with a sense of entitlement screwing over another, similar set whose presumed views are a fag paper apart. Much like earlier so-called rows over Labour AWS and Conservative A-lists.
If lobby fodder MPs and MPs placated with jollies across the globe actually believe that scandals will cease to have power over voters, then I look forward to watching them explain this to the voters come 2015.
restaurateur. Bob-a-job is probably right about Falkirk too -- it does not register as anything other than a story about one set of overprivileged wannabes with a sense of entitlement screwing over another, similar set whose presumed views are a fag paper apart.
Laughably incorrect. It's dominated the news in scotland as it then snowballed into the possible closure of Grangemouth as well as causing one shadow cabinet member to stand down and another in Murphy to get booted. Non-story it most certainly ain't.
restaurateur. Bob-a-job is probably right about Falkirk too -- it does not register as anything other than a story about one set of overprivileged wannabes with a sense of entitlement screwing over another, similar set whose presumed views are a fag paper apart.
Laughably incorrect. It's dominated the news in scotland as it then snowballed into the possible closure of Grangemouth as well as causing one shadow cabinet member to stand down and another in Murphy to get booted. Non-story it most certainly ain't.
Non-story in the sense of not changing votes, not in the sense of whether voters *should* take notice but whether they do.
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More progressive taxation from the coalition.....
Better not let those private school teachers loose on our state schools. Things would get *even* worse:
'In spite of these great advantages there is room for doubt about the educational superiority of our private schools. One little reported finding from the last PISA results was that, once account has been taken of the socio-economic background of pupils, state schools in the UK outperform private schools by a considerable margin. In fact the gap in this country is much greater than it is across the OECD as a whole where state schools have only a slight performance advantage over private schools'
http://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2013/jul/04/education-private-transform-state-schools?commentpage=1
That puts PB into context.
If you select the brightest pupils from well-off families, put them in small classes surrounded by the finest facilities it does not take a brain surgeon to work out that they will tend to perform well - whoever is teaching them.
Edit - edit button working here
He was Unite's convenor at the plant, and was also heavily involved with the Falkirk selection. Some might claim too involved.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/grangemouth-unite-s-stephen-deans-resigns-1-3161653
So if this really is about the state's duty of care to its children, should the Hon Hunt and Clegg not insist that QTS is extended to the independent sector too?
Tho I do think the headmaster of the Brighton School on Newsnight last night had a bigger point - the lack of "qualified" Maths & Physics teachers who don't have the relevant degree.....
On Twitter, rumours that Maldonado's money has gotten him a seat at Lotus have been joined by new ones that Chilton's will get him a Force India seat. ONe would be a travesty, both would be the clearest possible sign that something must be done to put the teams on a more stable and secure financial footing.
Leaving aside Hulkenberg, Bianchi (Chilton's team mate) has comprehensively kicked his arse and is the best driver of the backmarker teams. If anyone gets a move up the grid from there it should be him, and then Pic.
Hulkenberg is arguably the best non-world champion on the grid. If that can't get him a decent seat then the sport is broken.
The phoney 'ordinary folk' in Labour's TV broadcast: Millionaire restaurateur and Guardian journalist among interviewees saying they cannot afford fuel bills
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480664/The-phoney-ordinary-folk-Labours-TV-broadcast-Millionaire-restaurateur-Guardian-journalist-interviewees-saying-afford-fuel-bills.html#ixzz2jHkVlppS
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480664/The-phoney-ordinary-folk-Labours-TV-broadcast-Millionaire-restaurateur-Guardian-journalist-interviewees-saying-afford-fuel-bills.html
He just said "I have a PhD"
Does he have a bet with someone that he can get it into every interview?
I am just off to work, but will read and comment on it later, after the trick and treaters have faded away.
There is some truth to it, but it is perhaps inevitable with the feminisation of the medical workforce and more part time working. Doctors are a different bunch to 30 years ago. The "knife before life, knife before wife" culture of my youth has gone into history. It probably needed to do so, but has consequences.
Must be the same group which were squealing over cuts to CB last year. The ordinary people on £75K are usually the preserve of The Telegraph and almost as unrepresentative.
And some of her recipes are delicious... ;-)
That's massively the bigger issue. And consistency/quality of QTS.
That plus retention.
On QTS: http://teachingbattleground.wordpress.com/2012/07/27/dumbing-down-the-tory-way/
"We can take the rather complicated explanation, that the Labour Party first conspired to create a situation out of Falkirk much bigger than it actually was, because belligerent Ed Miliband was out looking for a fight with the unions (don’t laugh, this is what some people are spinning).
And then, that in the same tiny area of Scotland, there was simultaneously a conspiracy by someone else (a multinational presumably not in league with the Labour party, if Miliband’s recent statements on big business are anything to go by): to victimise one of the people implicated in the Falkirk controversy, Stephen Deans.
Or we could take the alternative hypothesis: that Britain’s biggest union was completely out of control in Scotland, with the connivance of its general secretary."
Well I'll be jiggered .... fancy that .... he's kept that a bit quiet hasn't he !!
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Do all you people who trot out the Mail story about Labour's PPB get a press release from CCO to tell you to do so?
I've just looked at it again and it's exactly what it says it is. The 'millionaire restaurateur' is appearing as a restaurateur and all the rest are what they purport to be. Even if it was a vox pop ad it would be acceptable and the rules for those are much stricter than for a PPB.
Look at this thread so far. The restaurateur in Labour's ppb is exposed as being a restaurateur. Bob-a-job is probably right about Falkirk too -- it does not register as anything other than a story about one set of overprivileged wannabes with a sense of entitlement screwing over another, similar set whose presumed views are a fag paper apart. Much like earlier so-called rows over Labour AWS and Conservative A-lists.
To name but one. There are several others coming.