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I use worldwiser's route. It is safe, relatively low on pollution and there are no hills!

Speaking from Shoreditch, the hipster zeitgeist seems to be rooted in 1950's vintage clothing with elements of psychobilly styling. Can't say that I agree with this http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/08/beware-of-cupcake-fascism but it provides a perspective and shows one man's antagonism towards the "vintagey and twee" and its "infantalising" influence.

Weekday lunch at the Patch. There is something especially pleasing and decadent about long weekday lunches in general my mind...

I suspect that any attempt to define class is fruitless. The whole concept is a subset of humanity's tendency to group and seize power. I think, as someone alluded to earlier in this post, if you are in the "right" class you are more likely to be successful at work and probably socially too. The parameters constantly shift to maintain exclusivity and shut out those that can't be bothered to play the game. So, confusingly it seems that left wing political views now represent a strong middle class signifier. I think that if you have been brought up playing the game it is effortless, if not exhausting. Hence the antagonism of those that cannot. I have to admit to being in the latter category. However, like DulwichFox I believe that forming meaningful connections is the only thing that really matters.

Perhaps take a look at Twitter Bootstrap. Quite a helpful framework for this kind of thing.

I agree with Goldilocks. It is particularly galling that the National Rail routes are largely green (free) in North London and red (with the exception of the Overland) in South London. http://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/pay-as-you-go-tarrifs-national-rail.pdf I am starting to feel that politically, South London, is not really considered to be part of London. So, I don't know if Boris would help. Anyway, just a rant, completely pointless on my part. To take the smooth with the rough, on the whole I think that South London is cheaper and nicer than North London and I guess that the transport situation is a big contributor to that.

Thanks James and all concerned. We greatly appreciate your efforts.

Codecademy is Excellent. Works up from the absolute basics: http://www.codecademy.com/ Useful for supplementing any lessons.

"As Dulwichmum found out all those years ago, playing up to a persona can get messy when it bleeds into reality" What happened to Dulwichmum? Did the persona consume the underlying person? That would be a frightening thing.

James, does this mean that the extra demand cannot be satisfied by the Peckham academy as was suggested in an earlier post?

Itexasatthe moment. Do you have a credible plan for winning the ideological battle and building a much needed school in the next year or so?

In my mind waiting at a bus stop, followed by a long bus journey does not create a sense of community. To paraphrase Sartre if creates plurality of isolations. Walking to school and seeing your friends en route is the opposite.

"But vacancies in other local secondary schools - Academy @Peckham and other good schools - Deptford Green ,Pimlico Academy ,Forest Hill Boys and Sydenham Girls with their coed sixth form within perfectly reasonable travelling distance . And no doubt others " That is now. I think that the point that a lot of people are making is that there has been a significant bulge in junior school place demand, throughout London, that will be coming through the system in a few years time. Is Pimlico Academy really a reasonable travelling distance? I would estimate at least an hour door-to-door. I know that if you want to get your child into the "best" school, it is a price you pay. But, many people want their kids education to be combined with being part of a wider community. This doesn't seem unreasonable.

I'm joining this late, but what's the ambit of it? I understand that East Dulwich needs a secondary school to avoid children having to travel too far, but some of the discussion suggests that the selection criteria might not be purely based on distance. Wouldn't any other criteria be self-defeating? If the school is ultimately successful and bases its criteria on, for example, academic criteria, then it is possible that the likelihood of a child from ED getting in is the same as a child from Croydon? I understand that people can "game" distance, but that can be detected and resolved, and in any event I suspect that is a minority. My basic position, if the criteria is distance, I am in favour; it will be a useful asset to the community.

It might be fun to set up a family share club. In other words, pool the money, pick some shares (blindly sticking a pin into a table works, although finding out about share valuation would be interesting) and then make sales and future purchases a collective decision. There are various cheap, execution-only share dealing services out there. There is, of course, the risk of losing money. But, since they are young, it's a good time to learn from mistakes.

Thanks, I'll look forwards to your review. I've had some good times at the Brixton Academy.

Has anyone read this book? It sounds quite interesting with a bit of local flavour. However, I have to admit that I don't read a lot of non-fiction; I like an-overarching narrative to maintain my interest.

Yes, I think that unconscious bias played a big part in the Moyes selection: confirmation bias, affinity bias. It's incredible how powerful a force it is and the extent to which it can override rational judgement. Who should have replaced Ferguson? I don't know, but I don't think that trying to create a new Ferguson was ever going to be the answer. Perhaps Mike Phelan could have stepped up in the interim and soaked up a bit of the post Ferguson angst to prepare everyone for a different operating model. Ferguson was something of a black swan in the modern game, a long serving manager of a successful European club, most manage 5 years max [Wenger is the main exception that comes immediately to mind]. So, the probability of recreating that formula was always going to be small.

Contrasting Moyes and Rogers. And at this point I am sure I'll offend a large number of supporters. Rogers, prior to managing Liverpool managed a side that many considered to be playing attractive football. Everton under Moyes, on the other hand were considered by many to be a negative team. That's fine for a club on a relative shoe string. But, Man Utd. fans expect correctly positive tactics. Rogers prepared for the Liverpool role, in fact he presented a 180 page dossier of his plans for the club, unlike Moyes who was apparently a shoe in. My father told me once that you can learn a lot about management in general from football management; it is management in the raw! In my experience when someone is brought in through backdoor they often disappoint, objectivity goes out of the window. I wouldn't keep Moyes beyond the summer, after the whole Fellaini, Baines debacle I don't think he's the right person to rebuild the team.

I would make the owner liable for any harm caused by the animal. So if the animal bites, the owner is charged with assault, wounding or whatever. This would reinforce the concept that harm is not caused by animals owned by responsible owners. If a person is known to own a dangerous animal and that animal kills, people with knowledge of that danger, who did nothing to highlight it to the authorities should be threatened with joint enterprise.

"Mortality stats show that the risk of death from a dog is lower than accidental drowning in the bath, being struck by lightning, being struck by a bicycle or car, or other vehicle, being attacked by a human, not to mention germs, viruses and other hidden nasties." And with the exception of baths these are all things that people fear. If a car, person, cyclist or lightning strike directs itself towards a person at high speed, they are entitled to be very afraid. Death is not the only thing to fear of course. Maiming, or even getting muddy pawprints on a nice coat or trousers are things to cause legimate fear IMHO.

Phobia implies that the fear is irrational. Avoiding a dog in a locked car would certainly be a phobia. But being afraid of a dog that is physically capable of assaulting a person seems somewhat rational; between May 2012 and 2013, 6,334 people in England were admitted to hospital after dog attacks.

I would be interested to know why this junction was chosen specifically. Is it based on statistics? I have cycled through it many times and with the traffic lights etc, it has always struck me as being safe. How does it compare with, for example, the junction of Barry Road and Underhill Road / Upland Road?

So are the responses from stevesmith generated by a bot? If so, it looks as though it had a reasonable initial stab at passing the Turing test. Beware I say, the lesson from sci-fi, is that when these artificial intelligences achieve self-actualisation, they become immensely powerful and dangerous.