I looked up the stats and 35% of children in my son's primary school do not speak English as their first language. Well above the national average. At least across our classes, almost all spoke Engli… (View Post)

China's export controls struck me as very significant non-tariff barriers. It doesn't surprise me in the slightest that Trump has thrown his 'huge retaliatory tariff' hat down. This is probably about… (View Post)

Point 3 of that thread sounds like rubbish. It has included the VAT that people leaving private school would have paid as part of the costs of imposing VAT on private schools. That's completely irrel… (View Post)

I expect you gathered, but to be clear, my previous comment was intended with heavy irony. Primary schools tend to focus their life lessons on being kind to others. I think a lot of people could lear… (View Post)

Yep. For both sides of my family, the grandparent who lived longest got Alzheimer's and necessarily ended up in a care home as they lived for a long time with it. Neither were exactly wealthy but own… (View Post)