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Writer (His Dark Materials, etc). Read like a butterfly, write like a bee. 'Strangely wholesome' - Millie Hoskins, United Agents.

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  1. Aug 17

    In order to prevent the catastrophic evil of awarding some students higher grades than they deserved, which would lead to the end of civilisation, it was thought better to award them grades lower than they deserved, which would lead to nothing very important.

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  2. Aug 16

    Good for Worcester College, Oxford. That's the best way to behave.

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  3. Aug 14

    The paperback is finally available.

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  4. Aug 14

    Go forth, little book!

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  5. Aug 14

    This is how fascism gets things done.

    It would cost nothing to leave the mailboxes where they are. It will be expensive to put them back. Sabotaging America’s infrastructure to steal an election.
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    Aug 14

    This, from Gavin Williamson, must surely be the quote of the year: ‘The danger is that pupils will be overpromoted into jobs that are beyond their competence’

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    Aug 13

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    Aug 13

    You can't give a D-grade to someone who's never had such a thing in their life, and is brought to tears by the thought of having to accept it. "Congratulations to all students receiving results today," burbles Gavin Piffling Williamson. Will he cry himself to sleep? Doubt it.

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    Aug 13
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    Speaking as a former Tutor for Admissions of an Oxford College, I don't believe that Universities can lawfully pretend that the computer assigned grades have any validity whatsoever - this is a HUGE problem now

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  10. Aug 13

    In terms both of the sheer number of students affected, and of the crushing unhappiness and life-changing consequences of each individual case, the A Level results fiasco is the clearest proof yet of this government's frivolous incompetence.

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    Aug 13

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    Aug 9

    Ditto bowdlerisation of Peter Pan, Winnie the Pooh, The Sword in the Stone and numerous fairytales. A prime example of how Hollywood turned gold to straw.

    Watching Saving Mr Banks about Walt Disney and Mary Poppins author PLTravers, and I am 100% on her side about everything. I loathe the film, too - a travesty.
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    Aug 10

    It’s amazing to me that my husband and I have been driving nice cars all over London and the UK for over 30 years and yet neither of us has EVER been stopped by the police. Even outside our home borough. 🤔

    why did the officers run the plate? Was it because she’s black? then when they thought it was a car from Yorkshire driving in - sharp intake of breath - London - why did they pull it over? Was it because she’s black? Or is any northerner driving in London now suspicious?
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    Aug 8

    If Ofqual have a logarithm which calculates A Level grades according to GCSEs plus historical school data, why didn’t they first issue those grades to schools and ask for exceptions and evidence why? Would that have shown too much respect for teachers' views?

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  15. Aug 7

    I wasn't asking about 'they' when we don't know who it is, but when we do know: 'Kate Tempest has announced that they have changed their name to Kae ...' Kate has, but they have. But Kae is one person. Why shouldn't the pronoun take the same verb form as the name? Sounds OK to me

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  16. Aug 7

    A serious question. When 'they' is used as a singular pronoun, shouldn't it be followed by a singular verb, like 'he' and 'she'? 'She lives in Battersea.' 'He was a graphic designer.' So why not 'They lives in Battersea.' 'They was a graphic designer.' ?

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    Aug 5

    Brexit has been brought about by the worst series of abuses of our democracy in modern times. Only about ten percent of MPs have called out what is little short of a coup. The political elite's failure to defend democracy is by far the greatest political scandal of our era.

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    Aug 4

    So far pretty much everything about Brexit is happening exactly as predicted by remainers back in 2016. Nothing predicted by Brexiters has come true at all.

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    Jul 31

    Gisela Stuart, Kate Hoey, Claire Fox. Amazing to see how many leading Brexiters who condemned unelected politicians making our laws are happy to become unelected politicians making our laws.

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    Jul 31

    Kate Hoey has blocked me so she won’t see this, but I must say the elevation of her, Claire Fox and Evgeny Lebedev to the House of Lord is probably the most undemocatic and most corrupt moment in Britain’s history for two hundred years

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