My root canal went largely ok. Painful - but I wasn't even sedated or anything. Just the same anaesthetic I had for a normal filling. If I'm to give any negative spin at all, the dentist ha… (View Post)

Aus all out by teatime. I'm there now. Ridiculoisly pleasant. (View Post)

There's a not-unreasonable argument that grammar schools should take the top 80%. It strikes me that the needs of the middle 60% are more similar to the needs of the top 20% than to the needs of… (View Post)

Private schools very definitely do not equal boarding schools, and nor, by and large, are they attended by children of the elite. And round here they are absolutely full of Asians (of all sorts), to … (View Post)

Also on the list of What the Post Office Shall Be: It shall not be a depressing, dimly lit shambles. (View Post)