Stopped for my lunch by St James Church in North Newnton. Apparently it was built in 963. It’s in a beautiful, quiet spot surrounded by meadows
The first church on this site was built in 963, making it one of the oldest churches in England.
The history of the present building begins in the 13th century with the erection of the nave and chancel. Notice the angle of the nave. Together they represent the figure of Christ on the Cross.
The tower dates from the 15th century. There were two bells. One remains; the other was recast in 1606. Two more were added in 1616.
The church was restored in the 1950’s. The organ was added in 1977 in celebration of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.
Starmer's getting some sensible advice at last. This might be the start of the big turn-around........He might even get his own MPs back onside
Because Syria went so well after labour prevented decisive action
Labour did the right thing. It was Assad or Isis.
No they did not, and no it was not.
There were other rebel groups beyond Isis. Unfortunately after Labour* and Obama caved, the non-Isis rebel groups largely got slaughtered by Assad and the Russians.
* and it was not entirely Labour's fault, they were on the opposition. Shame on the Lib Dems and Tories that opposed action too.
Yes they did, and yes it was.
Well done Ed. Exceptional judgement, did the right thing.
Keep the warmongers at bay. Not our fight, not our battle. We’ve done too much shit in the Middle East that’s gone wrong.
We've too often done nothing and its gone wrong too.
Inaction is just as harmful as action.
"I have never felt more depressed or, I am bound to say, ashamed this morning that now I have to wake up and see children burning on the television sets - as they were last night - and say that the answer from my country is 'nothing to do with me'". ~ Paddy Ashdown.
Unless it’s Gaza, of course.
Fuck Paddy Ashdown. If he was so motivated he could have gone and fought. It’s not our concern and nothing to do with us. Cameron got his war with Libya. That went well, didn’t it.
I’m guessing it’s less of an issue when the victims are western bombs because they’re benevolent bombs.
Not sure what point you are trying to make with regards to Gaza.
It was right for Israel to fight Hamas, and it is right for the west to fight Hamas's allies in Iran.
That's entirely logically consistent.
Hamas and the Ayatollahs and their Russian allies and others they are allied with like Hezbollah are utterly evil and need to be vanquished.
It wasn't right for Israel to massacre 40,000 innocent by standers.
Starmer's getting some sensible advice at last. This might be the start of the big turn-around........He might even get his own MPs back onside
Because Syria went so well after labour prevented decisive action
Labour did the right thing. It was Assad or Isis.
No they did not, and no it was not.
There were other rebel groups beyond Isis. Unfortunately after Labour* and Obama caved, the non-Isis rebel groups largely got slaughtered by Assad and the Russians.
* and it was not entirely Labour's fault, they were on the opposition. Shame on the Lib Dems and Tories that opposed action too.
Yes they did, and yes it was.
Well done Ed. Exceptional judgement, did the right thing.
Keep the warmongers at bay. Not our fight, not our battle. We’ve done too much shit in the Middle East that’s gone wrong.
We've too often done nothing and its gone wrong too.
Inaction is just as harmful as action.
"I have never felt more depressed or, I am bound to say, ashamed this morning that now I have to wake up and see children burning on the television sets - as they were last night - and say that the answer from my country is 'nothing to do with me'". ~ Paddy Ashdown.
Unless it’s Gaza, of course.
Fuck Paddy Ashdown. If he was so motivated he could have gone and fought. It’s not our concern and nothing to do with us. Cameron got his war with Libya. That went well, didn’t it.
I’m guessing it’s less of an issue when the victims are western bombs because they’re benevolent bombs.
Not sure what point you are trying to make with regards to Gaza.
It was right for Israel to fight Hamas, and it is right for the west to fight Hamas's allies in Iran.
That's entirely logically consistent.
Hamas and the Ayatollahs and their Russian allies and others they are allied with like Hezbollah are utterly evil and need to be vanquished.
It wasn't right for Israel to massacre 40,000 innocent by standers.
Was it right for your favourite Iranian regime to massacre 40,000 people?
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Most Middle Eastern governments are evil (including Iran’s). Some are so bad, that even living in a state of nature might be preferable. That could be true of Iran.
Most Middle Eastern governments are medieval.
FTFY
Yet if you read the Telegraph or Speccie the entire British middle class is decamping en masse to the UAE, with its actual statutory Sharia Law, because tax here is a bit high.
The important bit you are missing, is that the laws aren't applied to *them*.
Generally, such states are quite smart about image. At the Rich Entitled Furinner level, you get kicked out for most law breaches. Jail is reserved for those who fuck up in ways the local rulers find especially annoying or embarrassing.
So it's largely consequence free - go work for a bank (or whatever) there, for 10 years. Make a pile. Unless you do something stupid like start a joint venture with a High Level local and lose all his money, you will be fine.
Yes the loud objections those same people have to any soupçon of Sharia-like law here, which are always in the context of Muslim communities applying them to themselves, imply they they really do care about laws not applied to *them* when it suits the narrative.
I think you misunderstand.
The calculation is quite rational -
1) Sharia law will not be applied to them (excessively) any more than it is applied to the upper class in such countries. That is the settled system. 2) Any sharia type law in the U.K. will be applied to everyone, eventually, due to the idea of equalitarianism in the application of the law.
It is quite possible to respect and work within the laws of a foreign state one is visiting or living in, without wanting to import those laws.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life.
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect, but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
“now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.”
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
One problem with the current system is the large number of *males* failed in the educational system.
This in turn leads to the massive gender gap at all levels in the legally challenged community.
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"
(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life.
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect, but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
“now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.”
"A slasher... of prices! Ha ha ha, just kidding! I'm Simon Skinner, and I run the local Supermarche. Stop in and see me some time. My discounts are criminal! Catch me later!"
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life.
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect, but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
“now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.”
"A slasher... of prices! Ha ha ha, just kidding! I'm Simon Skinner, and I run the local Supermarche. Stop in and see me some time. My discounts are criminal! Catch me later!"
Only just read the header. However desirable regime change may be, supporting any military endeavour of such an erratic leader has to be out of the question, surely.
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"
(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life.
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect, but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
“now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.”
"A slasher... of prices! Ha ha ha, just kidding! I'm Simon Skinner, and I run the local Supermarche. Stop in and see me some time. My discounts are criminal! Catch me later!"
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"
(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"
(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
Very few are too thick to learn. Too many are taught too many academic things that will be of no use or interest to them, and too few practical skills that would be much more useful.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
Parents these days have the Government actively encouraging them not to even provide breakfast for their own child, let alone go to those lengths.
Breakfast clubs are a nifty form of childcare, plugging the gap between the 8am and the start of school. If both your parents have a long commute, or work shifts, they are really important. Of course, these are policies designed to help working people with children, anathema to the gerontocracy who would much rather that cash went into the Winter Fuel Payment.
Starmer's getting some sensible advice at last. This might be the start of the big turn-around........He might even get his own MPs back onside
Because Syria went so well after labour prevented decisive action
Labour did the right thing. It was Assad or Isis.
No they did not, and no it was not.
There were other rebel groups beyond Isis. Unfortunately after Labour* and Obama caved, the non-Isis rebel groups largely got slaughtered by Assad and the Russians.
* and it was not entirely Labour's fault, they were on the opposition. Shame on the Lib Dems and Tories that opposed action too.
Yes they did, and yes it was.
Well done Ed. Exceptional judgement, did the right thing.
Keep the warmongers at bay. Not our fight, not our battle. We’ve done too much shit in the Middle East that’s gone wrong.
We've too often done nothing and its gone wrong too.
Inaction is just as harmful as action.
"I have never felt more depressed or, I am bound to say, ashamed this morning that now I have to wake up and see children burning on the television sets - as they were last night - and say that the answer from my country is 'nothing to do with me'". ~ Paddy Ashdown.
Unless it’s Gaza, of course.
Fuck Paddy Ashdown. If he was so motivated he could have gone and fought. It’s not our concern and nothing to do with us. Cameron got his war with Libya. That went well, didn’t it.
I’m guessing it’s less of an issue when the victims are western bombs because they’re benevolent bombs.
Not sure what point you are trying to make with regards to Gaza.
It was right for Israel to fight Hamas, and it is right for the west to fight Hamas's allies in Iran.
That's entirely logically consistent.
Hamas and the Ayatollahs and their Russian allies and others they are allied with like Hezbollah are utterly evil and need to be vanquished.
It wasn't right for Israel to massacre 40,000 innocent by standers.
Yes it was.
Casualties die in war, which is why war should be a last resort, however that last resort was reached after the atrocities of Hamas.
It was not a massacre, it was a just war. A war with a pretty low death toll compared to many wars we have been involved in.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
This is PB not LinkedIn.
I want to tell you about my old pal. SEND kid. Bullied. Today he is an assistant manager at a medium-large supermarket.
When I saw him in the pub he hugged me and gave me FOUR tequila shots.
Back the ones no one believes in. I didn't, but someone else did and he confused me for them.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
Parents these days have the Government actively encouraging them not to even provide breakfast for their own child, let alone go to those lengths.
Breakfast clubs are a nifty form of childcare, plugging the gap between the 8am and the start of school. If both your parents have a long commute, or work shifts, they are really important. Of course, these are policies designed to help working people with children, anathema to the gerontocracy who would much rather that cash went into the Winter Fuel Payment.
All doctors, nurses, firefighters and missile submarine commanders should work from home, so they can do the school run.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
This is PB not LinkedIn.
I want to tell you about my old pal. SEND kid. Bullied. Today he is an assistant manager at a medium-large supermarket.
When I saw him in the pub he hugged me and gave me FOUR tequila shots.
Back the ones no one believes in. I didn't, but someone else did and he confused me for them.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
From my personal experience, a school with a good SEND policy (although we didn't call it that in my day) benefits everyone. I was very bright and started at a school in my area of a good academic reputation. It was big, impersonal and had a horrible atmosphere. I transfered to a school which had the reputation of having a lot of problem pupils but was much more nurturing as a result. I thrived there and was able to learn. I freely admit that I had supportive middle class parents so I could learn on my own time but I still believe the school was a lot happier because it took the welfare of all of its pupils seriously.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
Parents these days have the Government actively encouraging them not to even provide breakfast for their own child, let alone go to those lengths.
Breakfast clubs are a nifty form of childcare, plugging the gap between the 8am and the start of school. If both your parents have a long commute, or work shifts, they are really important. Of course, these are policies designed to help working people with children, anathema to the gerontocracy who would much rather that cash went into the Winter Fuel Payment.
I pay to drop my daughter off at a 'breakfast club' at 7:30, which I need to do in order to get to my own work on time. She's already eaten by then, I give her breakfast at 6am when I wake her up. She still has toast (which I pay extra for) at the club. We pay for this privately out of my salary. No 'free' care is available.
I know many kids are going to school without having eaten, which is awful. I doubt proportionately it is the kids of people with two working parents though.
More likely I expect either kids without any working parents, or kids who get up far too late and rush out the door. Or both.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
Parents these days have the Government actively encouraging them not to even provide breakfast for their own child, let alone go to those lengths.
Breakfast clubs are a nifty form of childcare, plugging the gap between the 8am and the start of school. If both your parents have a long commute, or work shifts, they are really important. Of course, these are policies designed to help working people with children, anathema to the gerontocracy who would much rather that cash went into the Winter Fuel Payment.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
Very few are too thick to learn. Too many are taught too many academic things that will be of no use or interest to them, and too few practical skills that would be much more useful.
Send them down the mines.
I am starting to feel like the Only Progressive In The Village.
What about merging academic and "trade" learning? So that plumbers get degrees (and side courses in Elizabethan poetry, if they like) and the Quantum Mechanics learn about car maintenance.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
This is PB not LinkedIn.
I want to tell you about my old pal. SEND kid. Bullied. Today he is an assistant manager at a medium-large supermarket.
When I saw him in the pub he hugged me and gave me FOUR tequila shots.
Back the ones no one believes in. I didn't, but someone else did and he confused me for them.
Yesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
This is PB not LinkedIn.
I want to tell you about my old pal. SEND kid. Bullied. Today he is an assistant manager at a medium-large supermarket.
When I saw him in the pub he hugged me and gave me FOUR tequila shots.
Back the ones no one believes in. I didn't, but someone else did and he confused me for them.
Yesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog.
Old Russian Joke - Why do KGB dog teams consist of two officers and a dog?
Because one officer watches the dangerous intellectual. And the second one watches him.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
Parents these days have the Government actively encouraging them not to even provide breakfast for their own child, let alone go to those lengths.
Breakfast clubs are a nifty form of childcare, plugging the gap between the 8am and the start of school. If both your parents have a long commute, or work shifts, they are really important. Of course, these are policies designed to help working people with children, anathema to the gerontocracy who would much rather that cash went into the Winter Fuel Payment.
I pay to drop my daughter off at a 'breakfast club' at 7:30, which I need to do in order to get to my own work on time. She's already eaten by then, I give her breakfast at 6am when I wake her up. She still has toast (which I pay extra for) at the club. We pay for this privately out of my salary. No 'free' care is available.
I know many kids are going to school without having eaten, which is awful. I doubt proportionately it is the kids of people with two working parents though.
More likely I expect either kids without any working parents, or kids who get up far too late and rush out the door. Or both.
My parents did the same for a while, and they paid for it too. The problem we have in Scotland is "wraparound" care can be expensive, so this kind of odd hour before school can be really difficult for parents - even reasonably high earning ones. I think the key point is the additional cost of universal provision of this kind of thing for councils/schools is actually quite small because most of the costs have already been sunk.
The general point is that Conservatives/Reform really need to get out of this habit of castigating any policy to do with children and families. The kind of person with massive tuition fee debt is now having children; no wonder Millenials aren't swinging to the right as you'd expect.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
Parents these days have the Government actively encouraging them not to even provide breakfast for their own child, let alone go to those lengths.
Breakfast clubs are a nifty form of childcare, plugging the gap between the 8am and the start of school. If both your parents have a long commute, or work shifts, they are really important. Of course, these are policies designed to help working people with children, anathema to the gerontocracy who would much rather that cash went into the Winter Fuel Payment.
You're gonna be old one day, Eabhal!
Can't wait for the £30k state pension under the triple lock
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
Very few are too thick to learn. Too many are taught too many academic things that will be of no use or interest to them, and too few practical skills that would be much more useful.
Send them down the mines.
I am starting to feel like the Only Progressive In The Village.
What about merging academic and "trade" learning? So that plumbers get degrees (and side courses in Elizabethan poetry, if they like) and the Quantum Mechanics learn about car maintenance.
That sounds a bit like Wilt. Teaching English at Fenland Poly to Meat One and Construction Workers 2
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
Parents these days have the Government actively encouraging them not to even provide breakfast for their own child, let alone go to those lengths.
Breakfast clubs are a nifty form of childcare, plugging the gap between the 8am and the start of school. If both your parents have a long commute, or work shifts, they are really important. Of course, these are policies designed to help working people with children, anathema to the gerontocracy who would much rather that cash went into the Winter Fuel Payment.
I pay to drop my daughter off at a 'breakfast club' at 7:30, which I need to do in order to get to my own work on time. She's already eaten by then, I give her breakfast at 6am when I wake her up. She still has toast (which I pay extra for) at the club. We pay for this privately out of my salary. No 'free' care is available.
I know many kids are going to school without having eaten, which is awful. I doubt proportionately it is the kids of people with two working parents though.
More likely I expect either kids without any working parents, or kids who get up far too late and rush out the door. Or both.
My parents did the same for a while, and they paid for it too. The problem we have in Scotland is "wraparound" care can be expensive, so this kind of odd hour before school can be really difficult for parents - even reasonably high earning ones. I think the key point is the additional cost of universal provision of this kind of thing for councils/schools is actually quite small because most of the costs have already been sunk.
The general point is that Conservatives/Reform really need to get out of this habit of castigating any policy to do with children and families. The kind of person with massive tuition fee debt is now having children; no wonder Millenials aren't swinging to the right as you'd expect.
Oh indeed, I completely agree that longer hours for care can be an entirely sensible policy, especially given many sunk costs. Our care isn't actually at the kids primary school though, its at the neighbouring high school using one of their facilities, with the care staff then walking the kids over to the primary school.
If it helps more people work, then that can be a good thing, I agree. Many people don't work as they don't want to pay for care and it is expensive. If I don't pay for it though, I can't get to my job, so kind of no choice. Especially since we both work and need to be at our own respective places before the primary school even opens officially.
The purpose of a breakfast club is primarily not breakfast. Indeed ours does not even offer breakfasts, besides toast which she enjoys as a snack after her breakfast at home.
Starmer's getting some sensible advice at last. This might be the start of the big turn-around........He might even get his own MPs back onside
Because Syria went so well after labour prevented decisive action
Labour did the right thing. It was Assad or Isis.
No they did not, and no it was not.
There were other rebel groups beyond Isis. Unfortunately after Labour* and Obama caved, the non-Isis rebel groups largely got slaughtered by Assad and the Russians.
* and it was not entirely Labour's fault, they were on the opposition. Shame on the Lib Dems and Tories that opposed action too.
Yes they did, and yes it was.
Well done Ed. Exceptional judgement, did the right thing.
Keep the warmongers at bay. Not our fight, not our battle. We’ve done too much shit in the Middle East that’s gone wrong.
We've too often done nothing and its gone wrong too.
Inaction is just as harmful as action.
"I have never felt more depressed or, I am bound to say, ashamed this morning that now I have to wake up and see children burning on the television sets - as they were last night - and say that the answer from my country is 'nothing to do with me'". ~ Paddy Ashdown.
Unless it’s Gaza, of course.
Fuck Paddy Ashdown. If he was so motivated he could have gone and fought. It’s not our concern and nothing to do with us. Cameron got his war with Libya. That went well, didn’t it.
I’m guessing it’s less of an issue when the victims are western bombs because they’re benevolent bombs.
Not sure what point you are trying to make with regards to Gaza.
It was right for Israel to fight Hamas, and it is right for the west to fight Hamas's allies in Iran.
That's entirely logically consistent.
Hamas and the Ayatollahs and their Russian allies and others they are allied with like Hezbollah are utterly evil and need to be vanquished.
It wasn't right for Israel to massacre 40,000 innocent by standers.
Yes it was.
Casualties die in war, which is why war should be a last resort, however that last resort was reached after the atrocities of Hamas.
It was not a massacre, it was a just war. A war with a pretty low death toll compared to many wars we have been involved in.
You have a twisted view of war.
Not surprising if you are defending that barbarian.
Is Gorton and Denton going the same way as Stoneygate ward in Leicester did this week?
Second would be ideal. Labour don't need the seat but as far as it's possible it would be good for Reform to be roundly beaten Also a victory for Green would encourage Starmer to start looking leftwards and stop apeing the fascists
A victory for the Greens would be a disaster for Labour and risks leaking further Labour votes to Polanski's party.
Indeed a narrow Reform win with Labour a close second and the Greens third would be better for SKS than a Green win as at least he could then say 'Vote Green, get Reform'
I respectfully disagree.
The Green vote is much flakier than the Reform vote in many Labour seats
It's easier to persuade people with a degree of intelligence to vote tactically, less so with your average Reform bone head
If the Greens start winning Labour seats Labour have zero chance of getting Green voters to vote tactically Labour to beat Reform, Reform voters won't be voting Labour either way
I doubt that, going in to the next GE I doubt anyone thinks the Greens will win a majority so lots of their sympathisers will slide back to Labour except in a handful of seats where the Green are very strong.
The Tories on the other hand are going to have a hell of a job convincing voters that Reform have no chance if they have been leading the polls for most of this parliament.
Labour will almost certainly go in to the next GE as the strongest party on the left and therefore find it easier to mop up tactical votes from Greens, Lib Dems and Nats in seats where they are clearly the main challengers to Reform or the Tories. Unless Reform declines rapidly the right is going to be badly split going into the next GE and that could hand Labour a comfortable majority on 30-35% of the vote
If the Greens win seats like Gorton and Denton Labour are forecast to hold with Nowcast even with only 85 Labour MPs projected remaining where will Labour be able to say only they can beat Reform?
Tories on the other hand in seats where there is a Tory MP can much more easily say to Labour, LD and even Green voters only they can beat Reform in Tory held seats https://electionmaps.uk/nowcast
Even if your theory holds and Labour/LDs/Greens vote for sitting Tory MPs to keep out Reform (doubtful) there are only 121 Tory seats where this applies. Labour, on the other hand, can squeeze tactical voters in over 400 seats.
Leftist voters can cast a protest vote for the Greens in G&D safe in the knowledge that the wilder Green policies on the economy, for example, have no chance of being implemented.
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
Very few are too thick to learn. Too many are taught too many academic things that will be of no use or interest to them, and too few practical skills that would be much more useful.
Send them down the mines.
I am starting to feel like the Only Progressive In The Village.
What about merging academic and "trade" learning? So that plumbers get degrees (and side courses in Elizabethan poetry, if they like) and the Quantum Mechanics learn about car maintenance.
Because the plumbers and car mechanics don’t like the idea of being £50k in debt?
SEND: We piss away a fortune on kids too thick to learn, meanwhile those with ability get held back by the delinquent scrotes disrupting their lessons.
Is this supposed to be a joke? The SEND kid in my class was relentlessly bullied and ignored by his teachers to the extent he'd lose control of his bladder. The council finally found some cash to get him some support and, over a decade later, he's now the assistant manager of a large supermarket and something of a local legend.
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
This is PB not LinkedIn.
I want to tell you about my old pal. SEND kid. Bullied. Today he is an assistant manager at a medium-large supermarket.
When I saw him in the pub he hugged me and gave me FOUR tequila shots.
Back the ones no one believes in. I didn't, but someone else did and he confused me for them.
Yesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog.
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The history of the present building begins in the 13th century with the erection of the nave and chancel. Notice the angle of the nave. Together they represent the figure of Christ on the Cross.
The tower dates from the 15th century. There were two bells. One remains; the other was recast in 1606. Two more were added in 1616.
The church was restored in the 1950’s. The organ was added in 1977 in celebration of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee.
https://www.visitpewseyvale.co.uk/business-directory/st-james-church-north-newnton/
I met him in the pub a few years ago and was given a hug and four shots of tequila. Sure, I was held back by being in such a mixed school, but I worked through that, gained some useful life experience (particularly about being kind and tolerant), two of my classmates went to Oxbridge, and I've now got free tequila shots for life (i don't get much of a day in it).
The broader point is investing in kids who are falling behind generates enormous returns, bigger than any other form of government spending. It's not always perfect (the taxi thing is bizarre, and I think the support is too wide and shallow rather than targeted, at least in Scotland), but If there's one thing we can point to as a positive from this government it's the increase in funding SEND is getting.
So you know Simon Skinner?
https://youtu.be/Gj4QvsIPqSI?si=-Tvw2QK4hu0NVWFT
This in turn leads to the massive gender gap at all levels in the legally challenged community.
#MoreFemaleCrimeBosses
@atrupar
a guy who claimed to be named John Barron and sounded a lot like Trump called into C-SPAN to complain about the Supreme Court's tariff decision and call Hakeem Jeffries "a dope"
(John Barron is a pseudonym Trump has used for himself when talking to journalists)
https://x.com/atrupar/status/2025567477984338031?s=20
Can’t they pretend to sing the anthems. They’re voices are awful.
Mind you FRA v ITA has two cracking anthems.
Ours is like a funeral dirge.
https://www.hammersmithtoday.co.uk/#!pages/shared:common:frboatclub001
The kid in the story above, was excluded from school aged 12.
Living on the estates in Hammersmith, hanging out on the streets… at that point, his family could have just called prison and reserved a place.
Instead, he ended up at Stamford, in the US, on a full scholarship.
Because some people who gave a damn* found the thing that he excelled at.
*his father never gave up. Just kept trying, trying, trying. That’s a real father for you.
They sound great to me lol
Casualties die in war, which is why war should be a last resort, however that last resort was reached after the atrocities of Hamas.
It was not a massacre, it was a just war. A war with a pretty low death toll compared to many wars we have been involved in.
When I saw him in the pub he hugged me and gave me FOUR tequila shots.
Back the ones no one believes in. I didn't, but someone else did and he confused me for them.
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Canada lose 2-1 to the USA in over time in the Ice Hockey gold medal match.
I know many kids are going to school without having eaten, which is awful. I doubt proportionately it is the kids of people with two working parents though.
More likely I expect either kids without any working parents, or kids who get up far too late and rush out the door. Or both.
I am starting to feel like the Only Progressive In The Village.
What about merging academic and "trade" learning? So that plumbers get degrees (and side courses in Elizabethan poetry, if they like) and the Quantum Mechanics learn about car maintenance.
Yesterday I was walking to an interview. There was a starving dog on the road. I stopped to feed him & missed the interview. The next day I got a call asking to come in to do the interview. I was surprised, but I went. Then the interviewer came in. He was the dog.
Because one officer watches the dangerous intellectual. And the second one watches him.
The general point is that Conservatives/Reform really need to get out of this habit of castigating any policy to do with children and families. The kind of person with massive tuition fee debt is now having children; no wonder Millenials aren't swinging to the right as you'd expect.
If it helps more people work, then that can be a good thing, I agree. Many people don't work as they don't want to pay for care and it is expensive. If I don't pay for it though, I can't get to my job, so kind of no choice. Especially since we both work and need to be at our own respective places before the primary school even opens officially.
The purpose of a breakfast club is primarily not breakfast. Indeed ours does not even offer breakfasts, besides toast which she enjoys as a snack after her breakfast at home.
I thought the Mayor of New York was a socialist not an exploiter of peoples labour ?
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Not surprising if you are defending that barbarian.
Even if your theory holds and Labour/LDs/Greens vote for sitting Tory MPs to keep out Reform (doubtful) there are only 121 Tory seats where this applies. Labour, on the other hand, can squeeze tactical voters in over 400 seats.
Leftist voters can cast a protest vote for the Greens in G&D safe in the knowledge that the wilder Green policies on the economy, for example, have no chance of being implemented.