For the hundredth time: It's not just the children. It's the staff as well. Generally, teachers are on average younger and fitter than the population as a whole (because of the high attriti… (View Post)

There is a certain irony here. Everyone keeps talking about 'Lockdown Two' and 'Lockdown Three.' But as far as I could ever see, there were only ever two lockdowns - the ones you … (View Post)

The problem is what Xi's proteges will see as 'stability' and what we would see as 'stability' are two rather different things - and not in a good way from our point of view. (View Post)

I'm not old enough to remember WW2 but I still viewed it as a 'significant event' if only because so many people kept talking about it. Or the moon landing, if you want a narrower para… (View Post)

That's not quite fair. The ICC did ban Steve Smith when he was caught cheating, although I"m not sure what the UN had to do with it. Oh, you don't mean the International Cricket Counci… (View Post)