90% of school budgets go on staff. So this means a complete freeze on teacher salaries (already uncompetitive) which will mean many of them leaving as they are generally capable graduates with transf… (View Post)

And then complain loudly that they have to pay anything at all because they've "paid my taxes all these years" (View Post)

Did he try for Oxbridge? My school (a different Surrey grammar) had a 'Scholarship 6th' whereby you went back for a term and a bit and crammed for the entrance exam. That left you 6 months … (View Post)

I was thinking about this earlier. When the full price rise comes in, it will effectively eat up my entire monthly discretionary spending. So I won't be going out at all for meals, pub, entertai… (View Post)

Not quite true. No demand for passenger, granted (though on my line last train is about 1AM, first one about 5AM) but a lot of freight runs overnight, when there are no passenger trains to disrupt. I… (View Post)