One of the reasons the mood of the nation (and world?) is as scratchy as it is is our collective impatience. Some (not all, but some) of Starmer's problem is that he's been in office for OV… (View Post)

Agreed, and I think people underestimate how infectious success and ambition are. A couple of pupils like that in a class totally changes the teaching dynamic. A lot of the secret sauce of successful… (View Post)

And, in "this clearly shouldn't need saying, but maybe today it does" news, Mob rule would be a very bad thing. (View Post)

Stubbornness isn't consistent with a 30 minute verdict. Given the timeframe, it's pretty likely that they were all agreed. And given the different histories of racism in the UK and USA, a s… (View Post)

Partly lack of children, partly unaffordability of London. It's been an issue on Hackney for a couple of years now, presumably this is just the same effect rippling out. Since I mostly do post-1… (View Post)