It sounds like an error path was hit that hadn’t been accounted for, so when the code threw an exception it halted altogether. As it should do in that case of course. The full report is here: https:/… (View Post)

I’ve honestly never had a problem with it - it just works. Clutch down, engine starts before you have time to do anything else, off you go. There’s a light on the dash to tell you that it’s decided t… (View Post)

Oxbridge colleges cost a sodding fortune to keep running. Without their endowments, they’d all be bankrupt from the maintenance burden. (View Post)

50 / year cannot be a “standard budget” because it’s impossible to maintain a workable school estate with that replacement rate. After a few decades of 50 / year schools around the country will be fa… (View Post)

Something else that I’d like to see journalists pushing on: there are something like 32,000 state schools in the UK. Replacing 50 a year means it takes 650 years to get through them all. How many sch… (View Post)