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Boris Johnson has appealed to European leaders to stop their “collective whinge-o-rama” after the election of Donald Trump as the next American President.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Who was the Labour PM who failed to close our public schools because he'd been to one of them and didn't quite have the stones?

(can't remember and would like to read up)

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Then along came Labour's Harold Wilson in 1964, a Yorkshire grammar [all: don't look] schoolboy and it looked as if things would never be the same again. For the next 33 years, every prime minister - Labour or Tory - was educated at a state school.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Who was the Labour PM who failed to close our public schools because he'd been to one of them and didn't quite have the stones?

(can't remember and would like to read up)

The government should “move away” from its target for three million apprenticeships, to avoid wasting £500 million a year on substandard training, according to experts from the Policy Exchange.

A new report from the right-wing think-tank claims that a significant proportion of the apprenticeship standards are inadequate, and raises concerns about the government’s focus on quantity over quality.jonathan-simons

Its authors, Tom Richmond, a sixth form college teacher, and Jonathan Simons (pictured right), the organisation’s head of education, called on the government to “move away from the three million target for apprenticeship starts being the sole metric of success of the apprenticeships programme”.

Instead, they said, the government should set “a new system goal which focusses on quality”.

tinyclanger2 wrote:Maybe indeed it wasn't a PM

tinyclanger2 wrote:Who was the Labour PM who failed to close our public schools because he'd been to one of them and didn't quite have the stones?

(can't remember and would like to read up)

Attlee fell short of abolishing private schools

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However, by his own admission, Attlee failed to appreciate that the decision to leave the private and public schools in place in the education system (they were to be abolished under the Education Act 1944) which he saw implemented in the first few months of his premiership, after the general election of 1945, meant that the intention to create a level playing field for all children and young adults, so far as learning was concerned, could not be achieved.

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A journalist broke down in tears as he spoke of his fears over the type of country the United States may become under a Donald Trump presidency.

Jonathan Capehart, an opinion writer for The Washington Post, was asked by Channel 4’s Jon Snow if as a gay, black man the current America is “his America” and whether he is worried the country may change under a Trump administration.

Capehart told Snow the question moved him “almost into silence” before his voice started quivering with emotion as he struggled to find his words.

PorFavor wrote:I'm worried that Theresa May will sell our soul (what's left of it) to get this fabled trade deal with the USA.

Ian Katz ‏@iankatz1000 11h11 hours ago

Quick reminder of countries Trump called before he phoned No 10: Egypt, Ireland, Mexico, Israel, Turkey, India, Japan, Australia #newsnight

Willow904 wrote:

tinyclanger2 wrote:Who was the Labour PM who failed to close our public schools because he'd been to one of them and didn't quite have the stones?

(can't remember and would like to read up)

Is this perhaps what you're referring to?

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Attlee fell short of abolishing private schools

Why has it come up btw?

Those who tell you the left has to somehow “reconnect” with people whose minds are full of white supremacy and misogyny must finish the sentence. By what means? By throwing our black brothers and sisters under a bus? Eighty years ago the poets and miners of the International Brigades did not march into battle saying: “Mind you, the fascists have got a point.”

The home secretary, Amber Rudd, did not look at evidence held by South Yorkshire police on its operation at Orgreave during the 1984 miners strike and the subsequent collapsed prosecutions against 95 men before she turned down an inquiry into the events, the Guardian has learned.

The Home Office has refused to say what documents Rudd and its officials considered, but South Yorkshire police said they had not sent the materials they held to the home secretary.

Campaigners said they felt let down and that Rudd had made a superficial decision “without bothering to look at the evidence”.

PorFavor wrote:I'm worried that Theresa May will sell our soul (what's left of it) to get this fabled trade deal with the USA.

RogerOThornhill wrote:Dear oh dear...

Nick Timothy
‏@NickJTimothy

Urgh, @jameskirkup, as a Tory I don't want any "reaching out" to Trump.

SpinningHugo wrote:Eltham North (Greenwich) result:
CON: 42.2% (+10.6)
LAB: 40.4% (+9.3)
LDEM: 8.8% (+5.5)
UKIP: 5.1% (-14.5)
GRN: 3.5% (-6.0)

A large number of stories in that result (a Tory gain from Labour).

1. Labour is doing (much) better in London than elsewhere.

2. The Ukip collapse is benefiting the Tories, who could be returning to their 80s heyday in terms of vote share.

3. the LD revival is small, but there

StephenDolan wrote:Morning all.

Via the recommended Cracked podcast (thanks again), there was a reference to an alternative method of predicting the winner of presidential elections.

'Retrospectively, the keys model accounts for the outcome of every American presidential election since 1860, much longer than any other prediction system. Prospectively, the Keys to the White House has correctly forecast the popular vote winner of all seven presidential elections from 1984 to 2012, usually months or even years prior to Election Day'

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Voter sues Donald Trump for $1 billion due to 'severe emotional distress' caused by presidential campaign
Louis Tafuto says Donald Trump is 'wholly untruthful and therefore unqualified and incapable of taking an oath of office'

AnatolyKasparov wrote:Well given that it was a close election, the argument another Dem candidate might have got them over the line isn't a totally absurd one.

His first song to pierce the public consciousness was “Suzanne,” which became a minor hit for Judy Collins in 1966 and was later performed by Simone and others. The song, written about one of Mr. Cohen’s many girlfriends, is on one level a simple love song:

And you want to travel with her, and you want to travel blind
And you know that she will trust you
For you’ve touched her perfect body with your mind

JonnyT1234 wrote:Today's prize for most truly idiotic opinion article goes too... can you guess?

No, David Cameron’s EU referendum wasn’t a mistake – and Brexit didn't come from a campaign of lies either - The Independent
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As it turned out, he had a choice between cutting his throat and slitting his wrist: he could lose the election in 2015 and be thrown out of office or he could lose the referendum a year later and be thrown out of office.