2019-24 showed that it is certainly possible for a giant toad squatting across all of British politics to be utterly squashed within a single term. But it requires a mixture of bad luck (Covid, Ukrai… (View Post)
The usual ruse is to have contracts for lesson hours and term time only. So the hourly rate is within the rules, but the number of hours and days you can do is horribly limited. Jobs in schools used … (View Post)
The people of Hackney and Stoke Newington seem genuinely fond of her on a personal level, and she has the sort of voice that ought to be part of Parliament. Starmer shouldn't have kept her hanging so… (View Post)
All of which is politics as normal, you know that. Any policy worthy of the name has downsides, and it's the job of the media and the opposition to flag them. And the job of government to do the thin… (View Post)