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)

I’ll tell you what happens with impossible promises. You start with far-fetched resolutions. They are then pickled into a rigid dogma, a code, and you go through the years sticking to that, outdated,… (View Post)