You also run up against one of the most powerful instincts of all: the need to make sure that your offspring succeed though whatever help you can give them. Any policy that seems to reduce the abilit… (View Post)

If by positive discrimination all you mean is adverts targeted at a group that don’t normally apply for a particular job persuading them to give it a try, then I don’t think anyone would have a probl… (View Post)

Shalom and Salam are the two that I think of (not knowing more than a handful of word in either language). Edit: I wonder if there is a link to the Latin “mortem”? (For maut, not shalom). (View Post)

I’ve occasionally been called Miss by Y7s in their first term (and once “mum”!) (View Post)

Not just a spokeswoman: she was the Secretary of State for Education (or whatever the department was called at the time). (View Post)