Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
Which is irrelevant as the Republican controlled Senate will decide, the voters do not get consulted until November
Just checking, if 90% of the American population wanted Trump removed from office would you call that irrelevant?
Until election day yes unless the opposition party controlled both chambers of Congress
You don't think that in those circumstances Senate Republicans might think twice about how they vote in the trial? Different era, but are you surprised that Nixon resigned in 1974?
It would be so funny if Trump were to win the popular vote but lose the electoral college. With the rustbelt states flipping, of course ...
It would - but the downside is he would refuse to concede. Could get messy.
Then we would have to join the EU and impose sanctions, backed up with the threat of armed intervention to secure regime change. That's how we deal with these matters in the West, isn't it?
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
Police Scotland are simply copying the incompetence of their English brethren, as outlined by me, ad nauseam ..... see also the front page of yesterday’s Times.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
Police Scotland are simply copying the incompetence of their English brethren, as outlined by me, ad nausea ...... see also the front page of yesterday’s Times.
Kidnapping somebody and holding them for three days before trying to cover up what had happened using even more highly illegal methods is - fortunately - not that common in England.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
Police Scotland are simply copying the incompetence of their English brethren, as outlined by me, ad nauseam ..... see also the front page of yesterday’s Times.
Come now - copying? No. They are repeating the behaviour of their fellow UK officers.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
Police Scotland are simply copying the incompetence of their English brethren, as outlined by me, ad nausea ...... see also the front page of yesterday’s Times.
Kidnapping somebody and holding them for three days before trying to cover up what had happened using even more highly illegal methods is - fortunately - not that common in England.
Perhaps they were channeling the spirit of Sir Thomas Moore? I'm thinking of the embarrassing case of the chap who was found not guilty of heresy, but was errrr.... worked on to "save the bishops credit"
Which is irrelevant as the Republican controlled Senate will decide, the voters do not get consulted until November
Just checking, if 90% of the American population wanted Trump removed from office would you call that irrelevant?
Until election day yes unless the opposition party controlled both chambers of Congress
You don't think that in those circumstances Senate Republicans might think twice about how they vote in the trial? Different era, but are you surprised that Nixon resigned in 1974?
When Nixon resigned both the House and Senate were controlled by big Democratic majorities
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
It does, if it’s correctly implemented.
But it would be expensive, so it will never happen.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
Police Scotland are simply copying the incompetence of their English brethren, as outlined by me, ad nausea ...... see also the front page of yesterday’s Times.
Kidnapping somebody and holding them for three days before trying to cover up what had happened using even more highly illegal methods is - fortunately - not that common in England.
Perhaps they were channeling the spirit of Sir Thomas Moore? I'm thinking of the embarrassing case of the chap who was found not guilty of heresy, but was errrr.... worked on to "save the bishops credit"
Possibly, although the Guildford Four/Birmingham Six would surely be better parallels.
However, it’s worrying if their procedures are over fifty years out of date.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
Police Scotland are simply copying the incompetence of their English brethren, as outlined by me, ad nausea ...... see also the front page of yesterday’s Times.
Kidnapping somebody and holding them for three days before trying to cover up what had happened using even more highly illegal methods is - fortunately - not that common in England.
Perhaps they were channeling the spirit of Sir Thomas Moore? I'm thinking of the embarrassing case of the chap who was found not guilty of heresy, but was errrr.... worked on to "save the bishops credit"
Possibly, although the Guildford Four/Birmingham Six would surely be better parallels.
However, it’s worrying if their procedures are over fifty years out of date.
True. Though if their procedures are 500 years out of date....
Perhaps the West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad? - of whom I like to misquote Max Beerbohm on another occasion "By God, this squad is well-named!"
Which is irrelevant as the Republican controlled Senate will decide, the voters do not get consulted until November
Just checking, if 90% of the American population wanted Trump removed from office would you call that irrelevant?
Until election day yes unless the opposition party controlled both chambers of Congress
You don't think that in those circumstances Senate Republicans might think twice about how they vote in the trial? Different era, but are you surprised that Nixon resigned in 1974?
When Nixon resigned both the House and Senate were controlled by big Democratic majorities
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
It does, if it’s correctly implemented.
But it would be expensive, so it will never happen.
There were middle schools systems in place in a few counties until recently. They were of dubious efficacy. GCSEs are a legacy of most leaving school at 16 I guess.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
The result of that would be a further increase in the numbers leaving without qualifications.
There was a recent BBC??? documentary I saw which showed the reality of the "not one GCSE" group. No restructuring will effect their outcomes....
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
Hmm, we've only ever used degrees and A-levels, or our own take-home tasks. I think the problem was that they were basically worthless as a measure for what kind of aptitude a person had.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
They do, but they'd be better off not doing so. Given law firms don't recruit until people are midway through university GCSEs are already so distant it's far from clear they benefit the process. If the exams were scrapped it would just save firms from themselves in this case.
Which is irrelevant as the Republican controlled Senate will decide, the voters do not get consulted until November
Just checking, if 90% of the American population wanted Trump removed from office would you call that irrelevant?
Until election day yes unless the opposition party controlled both chambers of Congress
You don't think that in those circumstances Senate Republicans might think twice about how they vote in the trial? Different era, but are you surprised that Nixon resigned in 1974?
When Nixon resigned both the House and Senate were controlled by big Democratic majorities
Not enough to convict on party lines.
In 1972 56 Senators were Democrats, a completely different situation to now where there are just 45 Democratic Senators. It would require about half the Republican Senators to vote to convict which is never going to happen
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
They do, but they'd be better off not doing so. Given law firms don't recruit until people are midway through university GCSEs are already so distant it's far from clear they benefit the process. If the exams were scrapped it would just save firms from themselves in this case.
Even I’m not asked for my GCSE grades now. The maths and English grades have effectively been superseded by the skills tests I did (even though they were absurdly easy).
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
GCSE results tend to be better predictors of IQ than A Levels or Degree class as you have to do English Language, English Literature, Maths and Science unlike A Levels or Degree Level where you can specialise
Then we would have to join the EU and impose sanctions, backed up with the threat of armed intervention to secure regime change. That's how we deal with these matters in the West, isn't it?
Tried and tested.
With Trump, I have a strong recurring image of how he leaves the White House and it is always in a horizontal position. Either medicated or under restraint.
I just cannot see it ending in the usual constitutional manner. It would not be fitting.
To be honest I think the best reason for leaving things as they are in education is we’ve had 32 years of constant meddling and upheaval. It’s almost impossible to judge the success or failure of any initiative because it’s not left in place for long enough to judge its impact. It also means there is no consistency in the system, and where there is no consistency there can be no rigour.
Yes, Gove’s reforms have been especially disastrous but it would be better to live with them for ten years and in that time have a proper think about what needs improving. Chaos isn’t good for anyone, least of all the children.
I think Pullman reckons there should be a comma after "prosperity".
FWIW I think Pullman is wrong. I have other issues with the coin though.
Correction, it seems he's right. The full Jefferson quote is " “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
They do, but they'd be better off not doing so. Given law firms don't recruit until people are midway through university GCSEs are already so distant it's far from clear they benefit the process. If the exams were scrapped it would just save firms from themselves in this case.
They could fire their chocolate teapot HR departments, which would be more effective.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
GCSE results tend to be better predictors of IQ than A Levels or Degree class as you have to do English Language, Maths and Science unlike A Levels or Degree Level where you can specialise
IQ is not a predictor of usefulness, MENSA membership is of course a key c**t predictor,
Which is irrelevant as the Republican controlled Senate will decide, the voters do not get consulted until November
Just checking, if 90% of the American population wanted Trump removed from office would you call that irrelevant?
Until election day yes unless the opposition party controlled both chambers of Congress
You don't think that in those circumstances Senate Republicans might think twice about how they vote in the trial? Different era, but are you surprised that Nixon resigned in 1974?
When Nixon resigned both the House and Senate were controlled by big Democratic majorities
Not enough to convict on party lines.
In 1972 56 Senators were Democrats, a completely different situation to now where there are just 45 Democratic Senators. It would require about half the Republican Senators to vote to convict which is never going to happen
19/53 vs 8/42.
However regardless of that, you've ignored the (totally hypothetical) question about whether 90% public support for conviction would result in Senate Republicans taking a significantly different approach to how they vote. Of course its a hypothetical, but you were the one that said that such an unlikely situation would nevertheless still see no difference in outcome. And somewhere in between the current 50% support and 90% support could get interesting.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
The result of that would be a further increase in the numbers leaving without qualifications.
There was a recent BBC??? documentary I saw which showed the reality of the "not one GCSE" group. No restructuring will effect their outcomes....
Those people get streamed into one of the apprenticeship lines, the school leaving age doesn't change, it's still 18.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
Law firms use them as part 1 sorting hat. I’ve no doubt other professional services firms do as well.
Technically yes, but in practice it eliminates very few candidates who wouldn't also fail on either A Levels or degree classification. In my experience you can ignore GCSEs entirely and it makes very little difference.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Surely if they were more like the Tories, educational standards would be rising?
The Gove/Cummings reforms seem to have resulted in more pupils leaving school with no qualifications.
Part of the problem, surely, is that assessing the correct measure for education is hard, and people will have different views as to the right goals for schools. Is it no children without qualifications? Or is proportion with 5 A-Cs? Or is it the educational standards of the top 10%?
Making your metric proportion of 18 year olds with 5 A-Cs at GCSE, for example, encourages schools to concentrate on those children who wouldn't get over the line without help.
Ultimately, it needs a sophisticated balanced scorecard approach. Which it's not going to get.
Which is why the middle school idea makes so much more sense. Get rid of GCSEs entirely and make the age of streaming into the correct path at 14, 15-18 is essentially prolonged A-levels, office based internships or apprenticeships or manual/technical internships or apprenticeships. A-levels gain a lot of rigour, the majority of people get a recognised apprenticeship qualification and actual work experience so they don't leave with nothing.
It mirrors the highly successful Swiss education system.
I think that idea has an awful lot of merit.
The bear part is completely dumping GCSEs, which are clearly the most pointless qualifications in existence in the UK. Literally no one I know has every asked about mine, not for university, not for jobs and I definitely give no fucks about what applicants for jobs got for theirs.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
The result of that would be a further increase in the numbers leaving without qualifications.
There was a recent BBC??? documentary I saw which showed the reality of the "not one GCSE" group. No restructuring will effect their outcomes....
Those people get streamed into one of the apprenticeship lines, the school leaving age doesn't change, it's still 18.
To be honest I think the best reason for leaving things as they are in education is we’ve had 32 years of constant meddling and upheaval. It’s almost impossible to judge the success or failure of any initiative because it’s not left in place for long enough to judge its impact. It also means there is no consistency in the system, and where there is no consistency there can be no rigour.
Yes, Gove’s reforms have been especially disastrous but it would be better to live with them for ten years and in that time have a proper think about what needs improving. Chaos isn’t good for anyone, least of all the children.
I agree.
I wouldn't take this to an extreme. For example, if there are uncontroversial changes which would reduce extraneous burdens on teachers, then the sooner the better. But any sane government should stick to the spirit of what you say.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Utter disrespect for the FA cup. It will be interesting if action is taken against an increasingly arrogant Liverpool
Unfortunately a lot of the journalists seem to be on Klopp's side. I think it's incredibly sad that the FA Cup has been undermined by the FA themselves these last four years. The moment the QF replays went it was inevitable that the R3 to R5 replays would come under attack. Heck, the FA even gave up weekend slot for R5 this season.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
What fixture pile up? You've got a (self-inflicted) replay and then 11 days off.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
What fixture pile up? You've got a (self-inflicted) replay and then 11 days off.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
Yes they did. Have a look at social media at the time of the announcement/during the Villa match.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
What fixture pile up? You've got a (self-inflicted) replay and then 11 days off.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
I think, technically, calling it "self inflicted" is about as disrespectful to the competition as refusing to take the game seriously in the first place.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Utter disrespect for the FA cup. It will be interesting if action is taken against an increasingly arrogant Liverpool
What are you on about? You have to have sufficient respect for a competition you play in now? Klopp's being a whiner, but I don't see how whinging in turn about respect is a sensible response.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
What fixture pile up? You've got a (self-inflicted) replay and then 11 days off.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
Yes they did. Have a look at social media at the time of the announcement/during the Villa match.
Right, well I certainly didn't and no one who's opinion I respect criticised them. If you want to see fixture congestion, look at Arsenal's 1979-80 season:
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
What fixture pile up? You've got a (self-inflicted) replay and then 11 days off.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
I think, technically, calling it "self inflicted" is about as disrespectful to the competition as refusing to take the game seriously in the first place.
There's nothing sadder than seeing a big club hurrying on their star players as it all starts to go wrong. Play the first team, get the tie won at the first attempt.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
What fixture pile up? You've got a (self-inflicted) replay and then 11 days off.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
The FA cup is dull. Cliche, pretend possibilities of shocks (which don’t happen), patronising of lower league supporters and the BBC desperate to promote it for reasons wholly related to their rights.
A very high turnout being reported in Emilia-Romagna today. Running totals are kept, and the numbers look to around double the 35%ish last time. The absolute minimum required is a win for the left to even start the fightback against the far right, hopefully a good one, Salvini is a politician I fear is genuinely capable of an (anti Islam) Kristalnacht - I cannot think of an UK politician of note in the same ball.park. Even then it would simply be like Labour barely on to the North East against a Tommy Robinson led UKIP.
Saw 1917 tonight. Intense. Very good. Think the cinematography was good but didn’t quite live up to the hype. The impression was that it was in real time but it wasn’t. Did involve you though.
A very high turnout being reported in Emilia-Romagna today. Running totals are kept, and the numbers look to around double the 35%ish last time. The absolute minimum required is a win for the left to even start the fightback against the far right, hopefully a good one, Salvini is a politician I fear is genuinely capable of an (anti Islam) Kristalnacht - I cannot think of an UK politician of note in the same ball.park. Even then it would simply be like Labour barely on to the North East against a Tommy Robinson led UKIP.
Oddly enough a much better result for the centre left in the Burgenland regional election in Austria. The SPD won a majority 19 seats in the 37 seat provincial Parliament with both the OVP and FPO losing ground.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Utter disrespect for the FA cup. It will be interesting if action is taken against an increasingly arrogant Liverpool
Unfortunately a lot of the journalists seem to be on Klopp's side. I think it's incredibly sad that the FA Cup has been undermined by the FA themselves these last four years. The moment the QF replays went it was inevitable that the R3 to R5 replays would come under attack. Heck, the FA even gave up weekend slot for R5 this season.
The problem is that in their pursuit of money the Premier League has failed to keep the promise it made when it started: to eventually reduce to 18 teams. With 4 fewer fixtures there would be room for the cups.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Utter disrespect for the FA cup. It will be interesting if action is taken against an increasingly arrogant Liverpool
Why should the FA Cup command respect? Or the League Cup or anything else.
If he doesn't respect the FA Cup then maybe the FA should try and make it worthy of respect rather than bemoan a lack of respect. Why should action be taken against Liverpool if they have other priorities?
Saw 1917 tonight. Intense. Very good. Think the cinematography was good but didn’t quite live up to the hype. The impression was that it was in real time but it wasn’t. Did involve you though.
Brilliant performance by George MacKay.
It was very very good, wasn't it. But "only" very very good.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
They really are crap, the dross they have vying to be leader it looks like they will have same fate in England as this type of tripe caused in Scotland. Where do they find these stupid people. You would think they might have some real problems to look at rather than hating a Scottish party given they have 1 MP there and little prospect of increasing their number for the forseeable future
The Kobe Bryant equivalent would be David Beckham surely.
Yes, and Beckham if he'd stayed at Utd for the final years of his career and retired only 2 years ago. But as you say, the same status as a legend of the sport for a particular era. And the same status as a huge personality in the sport, not just a top player.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
Just as well they aren’t actually reading the news and focussing their fire intelligently.* This story is just beyond extraordinary (not least that the officers who carried out this kidnap face no charges):
In nine years, it’s difficult to think of anything to do with Police Scotland that hasn’t been an utter fiasco. At what point will the SNP admit Police Scotland has been the most epic law enforcement clusterfuck since the Keystone Cops and replace it in its entirety with new local forces?
*Although this does of course partly explain why the SNP are getting away with a dismal domestic record.
"Learning opportunities..."
LOL, why not regale us with the wonderful English police , next to no crimes solved , grooming gangs running amok all over the country, knife murders and stabbings just about the worst in the world. Go on I dare you.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Utter disrespect for the FA cup. It will be interesting if action is taken against an increasingly arrogant Liverpool
Unfortunately a lot of the journalists seem to be on Klopp's side. I think it's incredibly sad that the FA Cup has been undermined by the FA themselves these last four years. The moment the QF replays went it was inevitable that the R3 to R5 replays would come under attack. Heck, the FA even gave up weekend slot for R5 this season.
The problem is that in their pursuit of money the Premier League has failed to keep the promise it made when it started: to eventually reduce to 18 teams. With 4 fewer fixtures there would be room for the cups.
Actually, I think the bigger issue is that FIFA have stolen an extra weekend and two midweeks in the last decade and more before that. I could live with an 18 team top division, but one could argue, why not go to 16 teams to allow more international and European fixtures?
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Utter disrespect for the FA cup. It will be interesting if action is taken against an increasingly arrogant Liverpool
Why should the FA Cup command respect? Or the League Cup or anything else.
If he doesn't respect the FA Cup then maybe the FA should try and make it worthy of respect rather than bemoan a lack of respect. Why should action be taken against Liverpool if they have other priorities?
Well fine, but Liverpool just shouldn't bother entering them if they feel that way.
The FA cup is dull. Cliche, pretend possibilities of shocks (which don’t happen), patronising of lower league supporters and the BBC desperate to promote it for reasons wholly related to their rights.
So what's the solution ?
The gulf between the top Premiership teams and the rest of the EFL is vast despite what happened today. Even within the Premiership, Liverpool dominate and the top six or seven teams are miles ahead of the rest.
Could you handicap the very best teams - say Liverpool have to start with a 2-goal deficit against Championship opposition and 3 goals against League One and League Two?
You could lose the Carabao Cup and have a single competition or have an EFL trophy which would have Championship, L1 and L2 plus perhaps the bottom half of the Premiership.
In a sense the best sides have, via the Champions League and Europa Cup, valid and meaningful Cup competitions. Perhaps those should be the weekend matches with the League games moved.
The problem is I suspect every non league, L2 and L1 player would love to play Liverpool, Man City or Chelsea even if they know full well they would lose because that's the experience - the clubs presumably don't mind the benefits of tv coverage.
The FA should kick Liverpool out of the Cup and not let them back in until they have a new manager. He is an utter disgrace.
Calm down.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Man Utd were told to participate in the FIFA Club World Cup because we were bidding for the 2006 World Cup. They were FORCED by the FA to miss the FA Cup 4th Round.
This fixture pile up is because we were told to play in the Club World Cup.
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
What fixture pile up? You've got a (self-inflicted) replay and then 11 days off.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
Yes they did. Have a look at social media at the time of the announcement/during the Villa match.
Right, well I certainly didn't and no one who's opinion I respect criticised them. If you want to see fixture congestion, look at Arsenal's 1979-80 season:
It isn't the just the number of fixtures, (I'm old enough to remember when matches were played on Christmas Day and Boxing Day) it is the intensity of modern football.
I think OPTA worked it out that on average Liverpool's 2017/18 team ran 5km more per match than the great Liverpool sides of the 70s and 80s.
Klopp's (and Guardiola) have been bemoaning the increasing the number of matches the top sides, the club world cup tournament of 2021 is a prime point.
It is likely that Liverpool and other European sides who play in that tournament will only have six weeks break between July 2021 and June 2023 thanks to the season altering winter world cup.
Add in the likes of Mane, Salah, and Keita having to play in the Africa Cup of Nations in January 2021 then players are going to suffer badly (or worse).
Do you think it is any coincidence that high intensity players are dropping like flies during the most intense part of the season. I had high hopes of England doing well in Euro 2020 but with the likes of Kane and Rashford worn down I'm not very confident.
Labour are now more likely to direct venom at the SNP than at whatever latest xenophobe fest Farage has dreamed up.
I struggle to see why you would genuinely think it is amazing. Nationalist politics inspires a lot of hate, for and against their enemies, even if it is a milder nationalism than some since it is all about identity.
If you think Scottish Nationalism 'is all about identity' you really haven't being paying attention.
Yes, Scottish Nationalism is so much better than anyone else's nationalism.....
Look the brownshirts just cannot help themselves, give us some data on child deaths in England and why they are 250% higher than those in Scotland
@stodge - the ridiculous thing about this is that no one minds too much Liverpool playing the squad players. They're still very good and it gives their opponents an outside chance. And no one would have moaned if Liverpool had played the same sort of team in the replay. But Klopp saying he won't turn up for the game is just bizarre.
Saw 1917 tonight. Intense. Very good. Think the cinematography was good but didn’t quite live up to the hype. The impression was that it was in real time but it wasn’t. Did involve you though.
Brilliant performance by George MacKay.
I won't be bothering. Howard Jacobson once described Kubrick as 'all lens and no trousers'. I think it's a description that was actually a bit unfair in the case of Kubrick, but it applies perfectly to Sam Mendes.
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But it would be expensive, so it will never happen.
However, it’s worrying if their procedures are over fifty years out of date.
Perhaps the West Midlands Serious Crimes Squad? - of whom I like to misquote Max Beerbohm on another occasion "By God, this squad is well-named!"
But the good news is that it WILL be a landslide.
IMO.
It needs to be consigned to the dustbin of history.
https://twitter.com/PhilipPullman/status/1221365577157087232
There was a recent BBC??? documentary I saw which showed the reality of the "not one GCSE" group. No restructuring will effect their outcomes....
With Trump, I have a strong recurring image of how he leaves the White House and it is always in a horizontal position. Either medicated or under restraint.
I just cannot see it ending in the usual constitutional manner. It would not be fitting.
Yes, Gove’s reforms have been especially disastrous but it would be better to live with them for ten years and in that time have a proper think about what needs improving. Chaos isn’t good for anyone, least of all the children.
FWIW I think Pullman is wrong. I have other issues with the coin though.
Correction, it seems he's right. The full Jefferson quote is " “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.”
https://bit.ly/36rSX9x
Cowboys, Indians, Aliens.
Weird.
But you also forgot to use inverted commas for ‘Sunday.’
However regardless of that, you've ignored the (totally hypothetical) question about whether 90% public support for conviction would result in Senate Republicans taking a significantly different approach to how they vote. Of course its a hypothetical, but you were the one that said that such an unlikely situation would nevertheless still see no difference in outcome. And somewhere in between the current 50% support and 90% support could get interesting.
With the new wordpress that powers PB you can set it up to play a music file whenever you're on PB.
So what do you want the PB theme to be?
1) Ode to Joy
2) Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
3) I Touch Myself by The Divinyls
4) I Touch Myself by Scala & Kolancy Brothers
https://twitter.com/JamesPearceLFC/status/1221515272139563008
Peace isn't quite as much of a binary operation as friendship, but it still takes two to tango.
I wouldn't take this to an extreme. For example, if there are uncontroversial changes which would reduce extraneous burdens on teachers, then the sooner the better. But any sane government should stick to the spirit of what you say.
Is this even close to the holders not competing in the tournament?
How much did the FA fine/ban Fergie/Manchester United in 2000?
Didn’t see anyone defend Liverpool being forced to play two games in 24 hours in two continents.
And no one criticised Liverpool for playing the kids v Aston Villa.
https://twitter.com/WPLGLocal10/status/1221525932650844161
Bryant and his entire family killed.
https://www.11v11.com/teams/arsenal/tab/matches/season/1980/
Yet another helicopter crash sadly
Brilliant performance by George MacKay.
With 4 fewer fixtures there would be room for the cups.
If he doesn't respect the FA Cup then maybe the FA should try and make it worthy of respect rather than bemoan a lack of respect. Why should action be taken against Liverpool if they have other priorities?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFVn3g8hEGY
Go on I dare you.
The gulf between the top Premiership teams and the rest of the EFL is vast despite what happened today. Even within the Premiership, Liverpool dominate and the top six or seven teams are miles ahead of the rest.
Could you handicap the very best teams - say Liverpool have to start with a 2-goal deficit against Championship opposition and 3 goals against League One and League Two?
You could lose the Carabao Cup and have a single competition or have an EFL trophy which would have Championship, L1 and L2 plus perhaps the bottom half of the Premiership.
In a sense the best sides have, via the Champions League and Europa Cup, valid and meaningful Cup competitions. Perhaps those should be the weekend matches with the League games moved.
The problem is I suspect every non league, L2 and L1 player would love to play Liverpool, Man City or Chelsea even if they know full well they would lose because that's the experience - the clubs presumably don't mind the benefits of tv coverage.
I think OPTA worked it out that on average Liverpool's 2017/18 team ran 5km more per match than the great Liverpool sides of the 70s and 80s.
Klopp's (and Guardiola) have been bemoaning the increasing the number of matches the top sides, the club world cup tournament of 2021 is a prime point.
It is likely that Liverpool and other European sides who play in that tournament will only have six weeks break between July 2021 and June 2023 thanks to the season altering winter world cup.
Add in the likes of Mane, Salah, and Keita having to play in the Africa Cup of Nations in January 2021 then players are going to suffer badly (or worse).
Do you think it is any coincidence that high intensity players are dropping like flies during the most intense part of the season. I had high hopes of England doing well in Euro 2020 but with the likes of Kane and Rashford worn down I'm not very confident.
Klopp's taking a stand for all of football.
The agreement was PL teams dont play at all in the winter break
Klopp is sticking to what was agreed. Shrewsbury or Liverpool a good draw in 5th round.