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Just a thought...but I wonder whether Farage might have looked at the indy result...and started to worry. Given that all 3 party leaders have said that they want to stay in the EU, there's a potential scenario where there are lots of figures plucked out of the air by the go-it-alone side and it look...

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ohsocynical wrote: [It was on a thread on the old FTN site]

Which reminds me...I have several pieces that I need to copy across before they disappear.

I got a shock when I was away and in an internet cafe and logged on to the old site...which was blank. ARRGHH!!.

Not sure what happened as it's all still there.

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You can see Tory thinking on what's going on right now. "We might lose the election overall but if Labour didn't win enough seats then that guarantees that we can block every English-based policy on NHS, Education etc. In fact they might just as well let us run those departments seeing as they ...

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Not quite sure what to make of this: Jonathan Simons retweeted Robert Colvile @rcolvile · 9h Breaking: @Policy_Exchange appoint @davidfrum as chairman to replace @Dannythefink David Frum? Who on earth would they want someone from across the pond unless there was some idea of a tie-up with an America...

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Not quite sure what to make of this. :?: Toby Young ‏@toadmeister 56s Just got a hotel room in Birmingham city centre for nights of Sept 29th and 30th. Spare bed in room. Anyone want to share? £154 for 2 nights Tory Party conference. Rustinpeace is there too so he tells us. Ironic really since he's...

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Oh my! Let's sport with the idle trifler. I see ninja is there too. Was her really a deputy head? He posts as if he's a complete dimwit who's just been let loose on a keyboard for the first time. I've no idea - did he claim to be a deputy head? I wouldn't believe a word he said one way or another a...

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New poster on the G's thread about Ed Miliband - "Ronnie Reason" and another slightly different Mondian avatar........hellooooooo Hugo! Oh my! Let's sport with the idle trifler. I see ninja is there too. Was her really a deputy head? He posts as if he's a complete dimwit who's just been l...

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Wow, lots of interesting education stories...this one is very peculiar. Agnew joins Nash at Future Academies http://academiesweek.co.uk/agnew-joins-nash-at-future-academies/ A non-executive board member at the Department for Education (DfE) has taken a new role with an academy trust founded by educ...

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Wow, lots of interesting education stories...this one is very peculiar. Agnew joins Nash at Future Academies http://academiesweek.co.uk/agnew-joins-nash-at-future-academies/ A non-executive board member at the Department for Education (DfE) has taken a new role with an academy trust founded by educa...

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Oh, interesting... Letter exposes U-turn on AET outsourcing http://academiesweek.co.uk/letter-exposes-u-turn-on-aet-outsourcing/ The Department for Education (DfE) appears to have made a U-turn on its involvement in a plan by the country’s largest academy chain to outsource non-teaching roles. Acade...

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Another triumph for the Free School movement... EXCLUSIVE: Secondary opens with 17 pupils http://academiesweek.co.uk/secondary-opens-with-17-pupils/ A free school has opened in South London this month with only 17 pupils, Academies Week can reveal. Trinity Academy – a secondary free school in Brixto...

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ErnstRemarx wrote: Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians

That's certainly close to the cut on my list.

I remember seeing a programme about it in the late 70s - almost certainly on BBC2 then - and was knocked out by it.

In fact, I'll give it a spin right now...

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Morning all. Kudos to all who stayed the course -- my internet connection was playing up last night and I couldn't be bothered to reboot my hub so gave up about midnight. I see the Gods spoke last night in the early hours...quite what their message was I couldn't say. Suffice to say my DAB radio sho...

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HindleA wrote:Apparently Farage describing the Referendum as a farce from start to finish.

Is that because he's been mostly ignored for the past few weeks?

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Oh dear, I;m not flavour of the month...this is from a debate about the money going into academy sponsor's pockets. DonEvans RogerOThornhill 18 September 2014 6:51pm Recommend 0 I've already told you that there is no point in continuing this thread. There's no point in talking to a jobs worth, you'r...

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HindleA wrote:Frustrated by not having a vote on an election day,I made a box and pretended to.I don't know which way I voted because it was a secret ballot.

So when does the vote get counted?

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I've no idea which way it's going to go, or even which way I want it to go. I'm not sure I do either. On the one hand a yes may well hasten Cameron's demise rather quickly especially if his backbenchers turn on him for breaking up the Union but on the other I can't get round the fact that not havin...

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Oh, and now look what I get...

Your comments are currently being pre–moderated (why?)

They allow arseholes like rustinpeace to troll their bitterness all over the place and stupid morons like Happy Chickie and yet for complaining that they haven't opened a blog I get this.

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I see the Mail are reporting that Andy Murray is apparently voting Yes. This bit: But with the vote on a knife-edge it may be seen by millions of his loyal English fans as a betrayal of Britain, the country he has represented in both the Olympics (above) and the Davis Cup. :roll: Wonder if that incl...

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Jeez... the Guardian really has lost the plot. I posted twice about the fact that they haven't put an AS blog for today - both posts disappeared. The last one said that the previous one got pulled because it complained that the blog hadn't appeared...and that's gone now too. Sensitive little souls a...

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Don't forget to spare a thought for David Cameron who is undergoing a new and stressful experience today. If I remember correctly, he is working in No 10. "Jeremy, you have got a plan for what happens if they vote Yes?" "No Prime Minister. You specifically told us not to prepare one&...

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:I see there is no readers edition at the "other place" yet.......

Probably got fed up with that troll accusing me of asking for posts to be removed but not either giving any evidence of it (I don't unless racist or bigoted) or saying they were wrong.

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Oh, dear...another E Act had an inspection - a s.8 after one putting them in special measures in January. The governing body has been reconstituted and oversees the running of three academies in the same academy chain. So much for local governing bodies. But The new governing body consists of some e...

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Morning all. I know I say this often but I simply don't understand the reasoning behind some of the decisions around academies. Take E Act. Widely reported months ago that they were losing 10 schools to other sponsors. Given that they operated in 7 regions with only 34 schools, you would have though...

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The head of the civil service dept responsible for such planning said they had been specifically instructed not to plan for such a contingency by the government. But my worry is beyond that procedural basis - which I'm sure the relevant bods will knock up, even if it doesn't currently exist. Camero...

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We may well be entering into very uncharted waters after tomorrow. And I wish I had a speck of trust that the politicians who will be in charge of finding a course through them had the right skills, understanding and values to be up to it ... but I haven't got any in Cameron and his hench people. T...

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Guido Fawkes ‏@GuidoFawkes · 3m David Cameron: “after the events I have been facing over the last few days, assassination would be a welcome release” http://order-order.com/2014/09/17/quote-of-the-day-921/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; … :lol: Can he see the HM Bateman ca...

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Very true. I think by the time be became to be PM, he'd forgotten all his radicalism in favour of a sort of managerial, Blair-like style which just didn't suit him. There's a school of thought in personnel development that people shouldn't actually spend too much time developing the areas of their ...

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We would hope that if the No vote wins, Cameron would go down on his knees and thank Gordon Brown in particular, not to mention Darling, Ed, and the countless Labour No supporters who've been out on the doorsteps in Scotland - not that we've seen much of that on the TV. There is as much chance of t...

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Blimey, just looked at the latest Rog & Rusty bustup and the Tory 'turfer has managed to reach a whole new low, comparing the NHS to "death camps". How does he get away with it, never even premodded despite writing the foulest posts? IDS must have given him a copy of the negatives. I ...

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I see that David Prior is doing his bit for his political masters...

Poor NHS care kills up to 10,000 people a year, CQC chief claims

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014 ... mentpage=2

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The worst possible result is going to be a 50.1 in favour or against. The fallout from this might well go on for generations.

Wonder why they went for a simple majority and not a 2/3rds or something like that to make a more convincing result given its importance?

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Wow - what a waste of money. Just reading the London Assembly report on education... The Mayor’s Academies Limited (MAL) was established in 2010 to act as a co-sponsor for academies with the Academies Enterprise Trust (AET). The two companies formed the London Academies Enterprise Trust (LAET) in 20...

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Talking of London, what exactly is the point of Munira Mirza? She seems to be the Deputy Mayor for Education and Culture yet because Boris has no responsibility for schools seems to have nothing to do. https://www.london.gov.uk/mayor-assembly/mayor/mayoral-team/munira-mirza Funny how the people in &...

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If Labour implement Blunkett's plans those nice shiny new regional Commissioners that are only interested in academies and how to get more of them will disappear. Regional commissioners branded a 'nonsense' http://news.tes.co.uk/b/news/2014/09/16/deployment-of-regional-commissioners-branded-a-quot-n...

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Back a few months ago when the furore over the Trojan Horse things was going on there was this exchange in the HoL: Asked by Baroness Jones of Whitchurch To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the statement by Lord Nash on 9 June (HL Deb, col 167), whether the investigation by the Permanent Sec...

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Oh...

Rotherham PCC Shaun Wright resigns following abuse scandal. More details to follow…

What took him so long I wonder?

Unless there's something coming out that we haven't yet heard about.

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Oh, and this...not the only example. Leeds Jewish Free School A secondary school for 11-18 year olds in Leeds. The school, which opened in 2013, was established by an existing maintained school. It will serve 175 pupils when full. In order to deliver a high quality education in a small school, Leeds...

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Something I knew but hadn't checked on the proportion, is that the New Schools network don't help every Free School which I guess is obvious as some like ARK will know precisely what to do without needing to pay the NSN for their 'assistance'. This from the latest set of accounts: ..........Schools....

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Well that was inevitable I guess - clearly wasn't going to remain on its own for long given what's happened. Exclusive: Kings Science Academy to join Bradford’s Dixons academy chain http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/education/exclusive-kings-science-academy-to-join-bradford-s-dixons-ac...

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This has been on Facebook lately so I thought I'd bring it across if anyone's interested. Mine are (lacking jazz since it made it easier to get to 15)... Albion Band - Rise Up Like The Sun Dave Edmunds - Get It David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action Guy Clark - Old No 1...

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a vote that could associate his premiership with the destruction of a 307-year-old union.

I can see an HM Bateman-stylee cartoon being drawn especially in Cameron's honour for Saturday morning's papers.

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It does make you think doesn't it, I can't for the best part read btl over there, it's endless reams of the same stuff being repeated, saying that I am finding it hard to see that Dave can survive a Yes vote, not that I want it to come to that.. Want him beaten next May, with Scottish votes include...

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Wales raises 18 billion in taxes and spend 34 They're hardly unique in spending more than they raise (certainly not in this Parliament, anyway) but that's quite a differential! No it's hardly unique, but there's a little of hyperbole about stirrings of Welsh nationalism, part generated by the media...

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Morning all. I went missing after my return on Saturday night - 24 hour stomach bug which saw me between bedroom and bathroom. First food seems to be OK... It'd be nice when the vote's over so we can get back to normal. I'm sure there are lots of stories that have gone missing over past couple of we...

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@refitman

Excellent.

Thanks.

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Anyone fancy tweeting the date and Hansard reference to when Burnham did say sorry about Mid Staffs to this liar? And that Burnham only took office at the DoH after Mid Staffs. Thomas Pilchard ‏@LawnmowerThomas Being a socialist means never having to say sorry #Labour #Shameless https://twitter.com/...

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And from a education conference last weekend... Laura McInerney @miss_mcinerney · Sep 6 .@samfr reveals the Ebacc was prepped to give something to announce on the Andrew Marr show & name decided on a whim #rED14 and Nick Linford @NickLinford · Sep 6 "First year of free schools there wasn't ...

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Sorry, this might have been posted before - I'll take a look through last week's threads tomorrow. Exclusive: Inquiry call over Bradford academy chairman mystery http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/education/exclusive-inquiry-call-over-bradford-academy-chairman-mystery-1-6835361 MPS and ...

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Oh hello. I've returned from foreign parts. Anything happen while I was gone? Welcome back Roger! How was Sicily? Any independence referenda there? No, none that I saw. It was hot and very tiring. Some of the places I want to weren't exactly close to a train station.* Yesterdays trek was up a hill ...

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