Now that my personal crisis of the last 24 hours is over I can, like Mike, sing the praises of the people working in the NHS. About 1am I got call from my sister to say my Mum was unwell. She had sev… (View Post)

I think implicit in CR's proposals - as reflected in the increase by 30% in education budgets - is that it would involve the recruitment of a lot more teachers and individual teachers not being … (View Post)

I don't disagree - although I think you missed out a [not] in your last sentence and I have added it in as that makes more sense in terms of what you are, I think, trying to say. The trouble is … (View Post)

The gun advocates - and I am actually one of them - will never be able to make a reasoned case for guns in the US for as long as so many of them resist the basic common sense rules. You can have coun… (View Post)

As you know we differ on this. Whilst I can fully accept your criticisms of him as far as education went, I am glad he went into politics for the work he did in other departments. His time at both Ju… (View Post)