Monday 30th July 2018
Posted: Mon 30 Jul, 2018 6:31 am
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"" She’s been told how Net Academies successfully runs four academies in Harlow, Essex. Two of Net’s seven academies in Warwickshire and Reading have been ranked “inadequate”, a third “requires improvement”. According to the latest Education Policy Institute report, Net Academy Trust is the sixth-worst primary school group in England, falling below even the collapsed Wakefield City Academies Trust.HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... emy-trusts
It’s worse than Carillion: our outsourced schools are leaving parents frozen out
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... e-in-china" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;the best story of the morning is undoubtedly Jeremy Hunt, the new foreign secretary, telling his hosts at a meeting during his tour of China that his wife is Japanese - when in fact she’s Chinese.
That's nothing, I managed to lock my self in my bedroom a couple of months ago. The door closed behind me and then the handle mechanism broke! I had to get the fire brigade out.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all. Managed to lock myself out of the house yesterday while putting the recycling bins out - the door slammed behind me. Fortunately I'm still fairly agile and managed to clamber over the fence once the neighbour supplied a chair...
They'll probably put Grayling in charge.will thorpe
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It's not just that we face the possibility of emergency stockpiling and distribution of food, medicines and fuel, it's the fact that the operation will be overseen by the same bunch of wankers who got us into this situation in the first place
gilsey wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... e-in-china" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;the best story of the morning is undoubtedly Jeremy Hunt, the new foreign secretary, telling his hosts at a meeting during his tour of China that his wife is Japanese - when in fact she’s Chinese.
Being less competent than B Johnson is quite an achievement.
Anglo-Chinese relations are bound to suffer - in the Hunt household, if nowhere else.
It is quite something to follow Boris Johnson in a ministerial role and still look gaffe-prone on your first major trip. (Politics Live, Guardian)
This has been happening on and off for some time now at my local Tesco. Huge sections, especially the freezers, are just empty and not restocked for several days. And all the supermarket chains are claiming there is nothing particular going on. Yeah, pull the other one! What aren't they telling us? Until I spotted this Mirror story I thought it was a local problem - our local Tesco has always been too small with no other similar sized supermarkets in the area and has been getting extremely crowded lately - so it was interesting to find this is a more widespread problem. Some foods have been affected by the CO2 shortage, but there doesn't seem to be a direct correlation between that and the empty shelves (there's plenty of fizzy drinks, for instance, but sometimes no ice cream at all or another time no frozen meat, processed or otherwise). It's odd it's not being discussed more, given it seems to be happening in a lot of places.Furious Sainsbury's, Morrisons, Asda and Tesco shoppers share pictures of empty supermarket shelves
Photographs of shelves have been shared online, as people appear baffled as to what's happening
I mean, seriously.........HOW????gilsey wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... e-in-china" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;the best story of the morning is undoubtedly Jeremy Hunt, the new foreign secretary, telling his hosts at a meeting during his tour of China that his wife is Japanese - when in fact she’s Chinese.
Being less competent than B Johnson is quite an achievement.
Someone asked me how old I was a few years ago, a question I haven't regularly been asked for a very long time. My mind just went completely blank for a moment before scrabbling around for an answer in a blind panic. I was only one year out, though. Not an entire country.AnatolyKasparov wrote:I mean, seriously.........HOW????gilsey wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... e-in-china" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;the best story of the morning is undoubtedly Jeremy Hunt, the new foreign secretary, telling his hosts at a meeting during his tour of China that his wife is Japanese - when in fact she’s Chinese.
Being less competent than B Johnson is quite an achievement.
I have had that problem for a while, although it's been easier this year as I'm about to hit a big number.Willow904 wrote:Someone asked me how old I was a few years ago, a question I haven't regularly been asked for a very long time. My mind just went completely blank for a moment before scrabbling around for an answer in a blind panic. I was only one year out, though. Not an entire country.
I'm torn between worrying and not worrying on the back of that "reassurance".No 10 rejects claims government planning to call in army in event of no deal Brexit
I’m just back from the Number 10 lobby briefing. There was quite a lot on Brexit, although generally it did not add much to our sum of knowledge about what the government is up to. But the prime minister’s spokesman was keen to quash one of the more eye-catching stories in the Sunday papers.
Downing Street said there were “no plans” to call in the army in the event of a no deal Brexit. (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)
Nope. I added one. No idea why.AnatolyKasparov wrote:One year younger, presumably?
[youtube]HP9Ge9MqTgE[/youtube]PorFavor wrote:I'm torn between worrying and not worrying on the back of that "reassurance".No 10 rejects claims government planning to call in army in event of no deal Brexit
I’m just back from the Number 10 lobby briefing. There was quite a lot on Brexit, although generally it did not add much to our sum of knowledge about what the government is up to. But the prime minister’s spokesman was keen to quash one of the more eye-catching stories in the Sunday papers.
Downing Street said there were “no plans” to call in the army in the event of a no deal Brexit. (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)
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Oh - and, after due thought and consideration, worrying wins!
I assume mea culpas will be forthcoming from Luciana Berger and othersCrémantCommunarde
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For clarity, the person calling themselves Peter Arif on Facebook who was posting vile AS statuses on his page is a "no trace" as a member of the Party. Complaints have just emailed me to confirm that he can't be found on the database anywhere.
10:12 AM - 30 Jul 2018
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We're getting a bit bored promoting tripe, if we're honest. Are there any other deeply unpopular products we should think about marketing?
We were thinking maybe Tony Blair, the LibDems or syphilis.
00:26 - 30 Jul 2018
We can only politely ask them.refitman wrote:I assume mea culpas will be forthcoming from Luciana Berger and othersCrémantCommunarde
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For clarity, the person calling themselves Peter Arif on Facebook who was posting vile AS statuses on his page is a "no trace" as a member of the Party. Complaints have just emailed me to confirm that he can't be found on the database anywhere.
10:12 AM - 30 Jul 2018
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The IEA protects its donors' privacy cos 1) it believes ideas shld stand on their own merits, not be seen as good/bad cos of who argues thm 2) some funders want to do their works of philanthropy without acclaim 3) the Left seeks to smear & abuse those it cannot defeat in argument
8:29 AM - 30 Jul 2018
I hope someone's counting the teaspoons. And much else.Boris Johnson appears to have accepted that “leave means leave” as removal vehicles were spotted outside the grace and favour home he lived in as foreign secretary the Press Association reports. (Politics Live, Guardian)
Interesting that one of the assessment world's leading lights - Prof Rob Coe who heads up the Centre for Evaluation and Monitoring at Durham decided against bidding.In response to a Tes freedom of information request, the Department for Education said that on 11 December 2017 – shortly after the publication of an invitation to tender for the contract – it held a supplier briefing, which was attended by 13 organisations.
The supplier briefing was held “in order to highlight the main features of the specification and to answer any questions”.
But in the contract award published last week, it was confirmed that just one tender for the contract was received.
I'm relieved to know I'm not the only onerefitman wrote:That's nothing, I managed to lock my self in my bedroom a couple of months ago. The door closed behind me and then the handle mechanism broke! I had to get the fire brigade out.RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all. Managed to lock myself out of the house yesterday while putting the recycling bins out - the door slammed behind me. Fortunately I'm still fairly agile and managed to clamber over the fence once the neighbour supplied a chair...
This seems pretty desperate and pathetic.Tory party's knock-off Love Island water bottles fail to fizz
Latest Conservative campaign to attract young voters could infringe ITV’s trademark (Guardian)
Theresa May's party announced on Monday afternoon it had produced special “Love Island water bottles” in the style of those used by contestants on the dating reality TV show, offering them as a competition prize. Unlike the merchandise used by stars of the ITV2 series, which feature contestants’ names, the Tory versions carry slogans such as: “Don’t let Corbyn mug you off”.
Mr citizen did a short, brilliant, impromptu skit regarding this bizarre mistake for me when I asked the question less than an hour agoAnatolyKasparov wrote:I mean, seriously.........HOW????gilsey wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... e-in-china" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;the best story of the morning is undoubtedly Jeremy Hunt, the new foreign secretary, telling his hosts at a meeting during his tour of China that his wife is Japanese - when in fact she’s Chinese.
Being less competent than B Johnson is quite an achievement.