Brendan

For ladies who enjoy their cars Sheila?s wheels are super stars ?? For bonza car insurance deals ?etc etc. I do have a sneaking suspicion though that this particular crime against humanity is one of *Bob*s. ;-)

HonaloochieB Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > three quarter length trousers. > It's an insult to trousering, your lower body and > the rest of the world. I guess I leave the plus fours in the wardrob today then.

The British male?s summer dress sense is a running joke amongst those of us from sunnier climes. The ladies all look lovely come the summer but the blokes seem to just miss it somehow. They have the right clothes but they just don?t seem to be able to put them together properly.

Yes comade.

I see what you?re saying but it can just as easily be interpreted as, ?Greater choice for those of us who can afford it and tough luck to those whose parents cant.? Personally I am going to work my arse off to send my kids to the best school I possibly can because I feel I will owe that to them as from what I have heard of uk state education from fiends who are teachers, it is pretty poor. But that doesn?t mean that I think it is fair. I strongly feel that a country as rich as this one should provide all of its children with an equally high level of well rounded education.

Next thing you know you will be posting from another country.

In the system I was educated in, at least at our local level, the government schools were as good as and in some cases better than the private ones. So it is achievable.

Sweet Jesus have mercy I haven?t been in a pub since Saturday. My office is an old Victorian library that has no windows but a large glass skylight for a roof. In this weather it has become more akin to a Mexican sweat shop. There are 3 other people in here with me. I?m gazing across the heat haze at them blinking my eyes as their borders blur and they turn into a double JD on ice with, a pint of Guinness cold and a packet of Marlboros.

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Fucking poets day indeed!

Hatter

Barking

Perhaps Wheatcroft?s first order of business will be to sack Guto Harri.

Good bit of history there but education in the UK has to compete with other countries so a national standard benchmarked against how it performs internationally would perhaps be more helpful than; Well we used to do it this way so that must be good. The UKs state education, while not the worst there is, is certainly not the best. Coincidentally a lot of that I think is down to what D_C mentioned earlier about education being more than just memorising text books and passing tests.

Do you think there is a cynical sub editor or journalist at work there or were they really completely oblivious to the irony of this statement? ?Boris Johnson vowed to root out corruption, cronyism and waste as he launched plans to "clean up" the way London is governed.? The article is about him hiring someone who can easily be described as one of his cronies.

?freedom, where individuals and familes can pursue what they want, within a legal framework for balancing competing rights? Presumably then there would be no state education at all but only private providers competing with one another. So where will your kids go then?

A respectable establishment should have a basement in which the flogging can be done out of sight of the customers.

Well if such a system was instated the regional education departments should be answerable to the public (in one direction) and the government (in the other) for the quality of the education they provided. What constitutes ?good? education would have to be a benchmark set against first national then international standards. I can feel the old hammer and sickle coming out here again.

Cut the academic school day by 2 hours and make sport and/or music and arts compulsory.

It is telling that there are plenty of people who went to private schools or send their kids to them who are of the opinion that the system is intrinsically unfair and would like to see an even playing field for all. But you will be hard pressed to find someone from/in a state school who believes that it is fair for the quality of a child?s education to be reliant on the amount of money their parents have. There are of course also plenty of people who send their kids to state school who get a smug self satisfaction out of ?being better? than those who can?t afford the same as them. This is because for every decent person in this world there is a bastard out there too. Personally I would completely ban private education but also get rid of the benefit system. So everyone gets an equal start in life but if you stuff t up, well tough.

etc? Toad the Wet Sprocket

relative

Anyway I look good in red.

Never!

I assume by OTT you mean, October Tsarist vs Trotsky. So can I not interest you in a copy of Socialist Worker then?