Few things matter much, most things don't matter at all. (View Post)

And that's where I'm pretty sure that there's a gap between what the people voting Reform out of despair want and what Reform will give them. A key reason that we all feel rubbish is t… (View Post)

That's the talent that Nigel and Zack share. Spouting rubbish, often nasty rubbish, that's actually quite hard to argue against. The existence of hard-to-argue truths and easy-to-argue untr… (View Post)

A wise manager once said that the key question to ask a complaining parent was "what do you want to happen?" It's one thing to say things aren't OK. I suspect that few people woul… (View Post)

For quite a long time, that was what schools were implicitly told to do. Indeed the best thing to do was to find the pupils likely to get CCCCD and get them to CCCCC. Have to say, I'm not shocke… (View Post)