Good to be back - I've really missed it. Speedy recovery to Mike! (View Post)

My (international) school had a US curriculum so I went through SATS (Scholastic Aptitude Tests) and Pre-SATS the year before, which were as you say intended as training. They were hugely important (… (View Post)

Don't think those work, really: "I take any decision on fines very seriously, and the LOTO will have heard my apology earlier." "I can't comment on hypotheticals, but as I sa… (View Post)

I was persuaded by Tony Blair saying at a PLP meeting that people would accept a reasonably generous asylum policy if they felt it was organised and had clear rules, but chaos (people hanging onto th… (View Post)

His first statements also clearly suggest that he was not involved in any events at all - he was, he said, in a suitably distant manner, assured that everything had proceeded according to the rules. … (View Post)