Seriously, Mr Tyndall? Please think of the poor MPs who will be there until 2100... Or perhaps you means like the chap who founded the University of London? He is still with them, I believe. (View Post)

But isn´t that the French system anyway? They accept into the universities anyody who qualifies, and then cut down numbers once they can see what they have got. The UK tradition is to put up the barr… (View Post)

And everybody else.... The Conservatives´key vulnerable points, as identified by David Herdson - overall incompetence and the one rule for them and another rule for us - are points that are open to a… (View Post)

Of course.... I keep forgetting that some people are very young.... The point is, of course, that the CSEs were a teacher controlled examination, unlike the GCE which tended to be run by university t… (View Post)

So why then in the run-up to the election, was there a tacit understanding between Ashdown and Blair, in order to finally get rid of the totally disfunctional Conservative government? The key to that… (View Post)