Monday, 8 August 2016

Social mobility - is it 'replace-the-toffs'? Or, 'move-into-the-gaps'?

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A few queries about 'social mobility'. This is bandied around like its a necessary social good. I'm always suspicious when the R...
Sunday, 7 August 2016

Theresa May brings back Secondary Modern schools - though she will say she's bringing back grammars.

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Theresa May looks set to allow selection for secondary schools. This sounds like a return to a grammar school-secondary modern system. 1. ...
Friday, 22 July 2016

Forthcoming books

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Laugh Out Loud Joke Book (Scholastic) Sept 1  [It is what it says it is: a joke book] Who Are Refugees and Migrants? co-written with ...

Siegfried Sassoon thinking about aerial warfare in 1932

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Just came across this poem: Thoughts in 1932 by  Siegfried Sassoon Alive — and forty-five — I jogged my way Across a dull gree...

The self-employed and 'migrants'.

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I have been self-employed since 1973. This means that I've been out and about actually or metaphorically looking for fees, or short-te...
Saturday, 16 July 2016

Why they keep going on about Corbyn and 'leadership'?

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Many months now of mainstream media people, Blair's warlords, several sundry ex-leading members of the Labour Party who voted for the Ir...

How do the rich take money from the poor? Here's one way.

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If you look hard enough in what people in government say, they will explain exactly how they wage class war against the poor and working peo...