I have a very strong suspicion that a lot of countries are playing the PISA system right now. (View Post)

No it's a great time to work. Spend a few hours tinkering with speadsheets when nobody will bother you and save your precious annual leave for doing something fun when the weather is better. (View Post)

The question of causation is a good one. Does reading to children help or do parents who read do other stuff (including passing on their genes) that is correlated with success? IIRC a good portion of… (View Post)

I can always forgive the towering literary genius behind Career Girls. (View Post)

I don't think this is true any more (if it was ever true). Tory policies on welfare, especially limits on benefits for third and subsequent children and policies on benefits for disabled people … (View Post)