DuncanW

Wow, that's horrific. Looks like she's a locally based contributor. It's not great optics for sure, but I have no doubt the BBC will sever all ties with her. Not sure what more they could do in these circumstances.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > mr whyte Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Droid - better make sure you check your slogans > > with the thought police on this forum first. > Make > > sure your not using offensive words like > "matter" > > or "all"... ;) > > > No matter how hard you try, and how genuine your > intentions, someone on here will find a way to > extrapolate what you have specified in your poster > as either racist, sexist, anti-environmental, or > drugs related! YAWN... it doesn't normally take much to bring the old "I'm not racist, but..." gang out to play - in this case absolutely no-one made any comment of this nature whatsoever, but still here we are. It's worth remembering that the Dulwich Alliance were themselves quick to recognise that their BLM appropriating posters did cause offence and quite rightly removed them.

Are you sure these are enforcement cameras anyway? I thought you had to have signage warning of enforcement cameras, plus they had to be highly visible as such, like the boxy yellow cameras for speeding fines. Is that not the case anymore?

San Diego is strict on ID in my experience. I went there from LA and forgot to take my passport. Found it very difficult to get served or even gain entry into any bars. I did however have my paper driving license on me and a passport style photo which I stuck on the license. Amazingly that worked in a couple of places...

Although you may have found it with the school your kids attend, is it true that schools outside of London have smaller class sizes? I'm sure schools in a suburban or rural setting have more outdoor space, but what do you mean by resources and learning? What benefit do you perceive to gain from staying in the same school with the same cohort for 14 years? Outdoor space is needed for many sports, but most of the schools round here do have extensive and varied sporting and PE programmes. And most of the schools with limited space on premise do have access to playing fields nearby. London schools outperform national averages on all of the following: % of pupils achieving 5 or more A-C grades at GCSE (old money) Fewer schools falling below the floor standard or rated Needing Improvement or Inadequate by Ofsted Pupils on free school meals perform better The schools local to East Dulwich tend to further outperform London averages and there are currently no schools in any part of Dulwich that fall below Ofsted's Good rating. So we will be staying here for the forseeable - there's my input.

Nice idea. Many will know this already, but the residential development on the corner of Crystal Palace Road and Upland Road was previously a police station that housed a notorious elite police squad who were involved in some serious Line of Duty style police corruption in the 1990s. A total of five officers operating as part of the subsequently disbanded South East Regional Crime Squad were jailed for selling drugs seized from dealers and traffickers to rival gangs. One of them was also linked to corruption around the Stephen Lawrence case, and the murder of Daniel Morgan, a private detective who was said to be close to exposing police corruption.

Genuine question: if a suburban park like Peckham Rye or Dulwich Park is a natural habitat for rats, and they do no harm in being there, why does the council have traps out for them?

You really believe all of that? Although it's true that one diesel powered bus emits more pollutants than one diesel powered car, try comparing how that looks when you compare emissions per mile travelled per person. You mention trains - trains have significantly lower emissions per mile travelled per person than buses or cars. Are you aware that LEZ (ULEZ for lorries) came in to force in 2008? Have you seen any of the Hybrid, Electric or Hydrogen Fuel Cell buses in London? Those three types make up just under half the TFL bus fleet. Penguin68 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Stop driving = Save lives > > Although around half of the pollutants generated > in London (although much pollution in London comes > from outside London) come from vehicles - this is > primarily diesel vehicles (NOx) - so significantly > public and commercial transport, not domestic > vehicles (the most polluting of which are being > excluded by tariffs on them). > > It is domestic vehicles which are the targets of > LTNs however, as are all the main actions of > Southwark. If you are to quote the 9000 deaths > associated with pollution these are not (mainly) > to be laid at the doors of private vehicle owners > - but rather those running diesel buses, trains > and commercial vehicles - which achieve the most > significant daily mileage (many private vehicles > kept in ED are mainly weekend use, or for very > short trips, generally, in my experience).

Jakido, that's a big ol' document there, is there a summary of key points?

Brixtwich, that doesn?t tally with anything I have seen or read. I don?t suppose you have any data to back that up, or is it just your own personal view?

It depends how you interpret those data, of course. The BMJ article, or at least what I saw on the front page says that state educated students do better at medical school. I think it's widely understood that state educated kids as a cohort need to be more talented and work harder to achieve the same results as peers at private schools. So state educated students will often accelerate beyond the private ones in higher education assuming identical levels of attainment on leaving school. That supports the view that private schools do offer an advantage. I would say it also supports the view that many top HE institutions have: that they should skew their admittance processes in favour of state to compensate for that. The Cambridge Uni bit says that 70% of entrants this year will be from state, leaving 30% coming from private. 7% of UK kids go to private schools, so that could be read as students are over four times as likely to go to Cambridge if they went to a private school. That stat on its own is only informative to an extent. It would be really interesting to know how many of the state educated entrants went to grammar or super-selective type schools, which we don't have locally and in my view are at least as problematic as the private system. And therefore, what percentage will be coming from state, comprehensive education? I'm not saying this in support of Private as a system, but I'm not sure those sources dispel the view that private schools offer some level of academic advantage.

You're right in as much as the driver of the Golf was within their legal rights to move the bin and park their car there. But we are in a sorry state if that really is the only yardstick by which we measure our behaviour. Sue, I hope that matter was resolved and the work was undertaken.

Hi Sue, That's annoying. As you know on Fridays people park in Ulverscroft for the Mosque on NCR - have you tried contacting them yet?

I don't have a major issue with there being more homes/flats there than the current situation, but the original block is looking a bit tired already - how does it work just 'dumping' another two stories on top of that building?? I'm sure it's possible, but it doesn't seem like the blueprint for a great development. BTW - what's happening about the Barry Parade development? IT looks like planning permission was granted a while back?

There is no case for it. It's a travesty, and the available sanctions should be used against clubs and players who participate. The Premier League would be diminished greatly without those clubs, so hopefully they will see sense, but the game is bigger than any one club (or even six).

So is the question: does the Mayor have power to do stuff? Or is it: why does the Mayor use the power he has to do stuff I don?t like? If it?s the latter, London has the opportunity to vote him out in a few weeks. Although we all know that?s extremely unlikely to happen.

tedfudge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But they are still a danger to themselves and > others regardless of how many people they kill .. Sure, to some extent you can find danger wherever you look for it. But to what extent with cyclists? The annual number of fatalaties caused by drivers of motor vehicles is around 1750 with around 400 of those being pedestrians. (I refer back to fatalaties as that is the stat least open to manipulation) Yet I don't read endless, monotonous diatribes on here (or elsewhere) about irresponsible motor vehicle drivers. Why is that? I would genuinely be interested to know...

? it's not just motorists who are a danger to cyclists as cyclists can be just as dangerous to themselves? I don?t think the data bear that out. Around 100 cyclists are killed every year in the UK. Statistically, a cyclist kills 1 pedestrian every couple of years. That doesn?t excuse the behaviour of some cyclists, but a cyclist disobeying the Highway Code is unlikely to result in the death of another road user. Thankfully.

Ted, Some reasonable points in there, but as Malumbu pointed out, they would go back to Nigeria, where they originate from, not the modern day nation of Benin. Also, it's an objective fact that the bronzes were stolen/looted buy us in the colonial era - generally speaking you can't steal someone else's property and then just say "I can look after it better than you, anyway..." I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of that kind of logic. It also falls down with the knowledge that Nigeria have c50 of the bronzes in domestic museum collections. They haven't been stolen.

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Where would you send the Benin Bronzes back to? malumbu Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just a sign that conservative middle England > couldn't give a toss about the above, and save > their rage for those daring to question the > appropriateness of statues to slave traders, or > returning stolen treasures. > > Send them all back - Benin bronzes, Parthenon > Marbles etc etc.

Ted, Like you (I think) I am of White British heritage. I don't think anyone is trying to blame me for the actions of those who came all those years before me for the slave trade. But I recognise it is a huge is part of the historical context and legacy which creates the disparities we live with today; disparities that I benefit from. The transatlantic slave trade was horrific and resulted in c17,000,000 deaths according to the UN. The disparities that separate our communities today are really significant and start at the beginning of life's journey and continue through education, healthcare, employment opportunities and obviously, the criminal justice system. With that in mind, we are asked not to use a few specific words, most notably the N word. Not only when used as an insult or a term of abuse, but also when quoting someone who has done so to critisise them, not singing along to your favourite 90's rap record and not quoting dialogue from films, not ever. And whilst you may not fully agree with rationale behind that, just ask yourself is it really that big a thing to ask? I would ask the same question about the removal of staues of slave-traders. Thank you for reading,

Soylent Green Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > DuncanW Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Soylent, I'm not certain that's right. > > > > If you have two kids or more and at the time > your > > eldest is applying for secondary schools, they > > can't get a local school because other families > > have moved into the area to get their eldest > in, > > and then moved out and the younger ones are > > getting sibling priority, would that not be a > > disadvantage? > > > I think you are over-imagining the number of > people who move out of an area once they have one > child in secondary. In my experience of having had > two children go through secondary school, > relatively few people move away at this stage. > Who wants their 11 or 12 year old, who is just > getting to grips with commuting and having the > independence to meet up with friends at weekends > or after school travelling long and complicated > journeys between home and school and friends and > home? > > The reason for number of applications exceeding > number of places is simply because there are a > very large number of junior school age in this > area. Most local primaries have either expanded > or had bulge years and people are less likely > nowadays to move out of London for the Kent > grammars. If you add up the number of local year > 6 classes you will see how the supply exceeds > demand. Starting closest to CED; GG 2, DKH 2, St > Johns 2, Bessemer 3, Heber 2, Goodrich 3, > Bellenden 2, Lyndhurst 2, St Anthony's 2. That's > without bulge classes or including Herne Hill, > Nunhead or Dulwich schools. Already you are over > 500 pupils chasing how few places? Sadly, we know > this bulge is already in decline - primary schools > are not filling their reception classes any more - > which means there is no argument for building any > more secondary schools. Sorry that this is such a > depressing state of affairs, but you are just > wasting sweat if you think the sibling policy is > to blame here. It's not. That's a bit of a mischaracterisation of what I was saying. I didn't make any comment about the scale of the issue other than saying that I had no idea about that. My point was not about the scale of the problem, but simply that when it does happen by design (gaming) it's unfair, and when it happens by circumstance, allowing sibling priority is probably still not the most equitable way to distribute places at over-subscribed schools. I share your view that long schoool journeys and all that comes with it are not ideal, but plenty of people do it. Just look at the local independent schools, and you may have seen another thread in this section created by someone who wants to send their child to school in Dulwich whilst living in Greenwich. If people will pay ?XXX for the privilege of sending their kids to schools far from where they live, you will likely find some that would do it without paying fees for the school of their liking. You're right about the current demand outstripping supply being temporary etc, but for me that has little bearing on whether or not to try to make the system more equitable. It's certainly done in some other London boroughs.

Even counting acting...

Are you sugesting that 'schools' is merely code for immigrants?