What's a pass anyway? If it means anything, it's what opens the next door. A grade 1 still shows some achievement, sometimes a grade 8 isn't enough. As for the grade 7/4, thing, it is … (View Post)

She's sensible like that. (Though when a vacancy came up at the relevant school, it was Thing Two who made me promise that, no matter what, I mustn't apply for it.) (View Post)

A brief palate-cleanser from all this doom. Thing One got her GCSE results, and they're more than enough to do maths, further maths, physics and French A Levels where she wants to do them. This … (View Post)

Those two are at least coherent from the point of view of arithmetic. Which is why Hunt's NI cuts funded by mystery spending cuts were so problematic. (View Post)

Essence of Reformism is "don't tax me to spend money on them, tax them to spend money on me". Every party does it a bit, because it's human nature to think that. But the Uniparty … (View Post)