At the private school I went to, class sizes were 30 in year 7, down to 24-ish at GCSE, down to 7-15 for A Level. Not much different from a state school. (But then, this was the era when private scho… (View Post)

I don't think SKS and Reeves are truly incompetent or wicked. But the general pattern is that every time the Tories have been wrong, Labour have been calling for them to be more wrong (lockdown … (View Post)

I rather like the Fens. They feel weird and other wordly. I like that you can scramble up a drainage ditch and be the highest person for miles around. But I only pass through them once every few year… (View Post)

There'll be play on all five days, I reckon. But 26 for 2-1 looks excellent value. (View Post)

I remember driving across the Spanish interior in July 1990 in the back of my parents' Austin Maestro in the days before air conditioning. God it was hot. Every 30 miles or so there'd be a … (View Post)