I'm afraid that, cynically, my experience of 30 years of working is that what I am paid bears no relationship to how hard I actually work. In the previous company I worked for, over 15 years, th… (View Post)

Well, that was certainly the policy adopted by Kingston-upon-Thames LEA in the 70s and early 80s. No money for anything in the Grammar, not even decorating, (one inspection report by OFSTED's pr… (View Post)

Losing the right to strike needs to be balanced by an offer from the other side, such as pay rises guaranteed to rise in line with inflation. Otherwise it's just the same old story of the elite … (View Post)

Put much more succinctly than my reply! (View Post)

At the half way point I don't think I would be very worried about either opponent if I was Starmer, but I would lose sleep about the state of the country I'm likely to inherit (View Post)