The total number of school pupils is also down by about 60k; https://explore-education-statistics.service.gov.uk/find-statistics/school-pupils-and-their-characteristics/2024-25 The primary school con… (View Post)

Isn't the main issue the unwinding of the Covid-era discounts? It's (not that) amazing how quickly an emergency dispensation becomes the demanded normal. (See also: Triple Lock.) (View Post)

Self-serving, you say? Put like that, it's a dead cert. (View Post)

It's odd- two of the reality-elimination formats that have lasted best- Strictly and Bake Off- are centred on people being nice to each other. Even The Traitors has a healthy cooperation-to-murd… (View Post)

The officers, probably. But as with Starmer, as with Brexit, as with housebuilding, as with infrastructure like HS2, as with all sorts of things... It's trivial to assemble a majority against so… (View Post)