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tinyclanger2 wrote:Evening.

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:This has really annoyed me, from Matthew Parris, praised by Ian Birrell and Steve Richards.

MPs must be brave and tell us we were wrong

It's in the Times so I can't read it.

Misinformed and manipulated perhaps, but to say the electorate was wrong shows these guys understand nothing at all.

I’m increasingly convinced that there will be a second referendum. The Sherlock Holmes principle is always a good one: you eliminate the impossible and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the solution. The second referendum has always been highly improbable but everything else is looking impossible. There’s just no deal that the Europeans can do that can get through the House of Commons. And no deal is so catastrophic that you have to hope that no sane parliament would allow it. So the one thing left is a second referendum.

HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... iversities



Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities

The furore over the Queen’s Christmas message was so much and fury
Queen Elizabeth II poses with the offending instrument in the background after recording her Christmas message at Buckingham Palace.

- Catherine Bennett
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New BBC Radio 4 series shows bewilderment at Brexit outside the UK

Neil MacGregor wrote:“Because the rest of the world sees the EU as such a positive force, our language about it as the enemy, our comparing it with Nazi Germany, is not only seen as incomprehensible but also unacceptable,” he said.

“Following the debate from Germany, it became so obvious that what was being said in the UK was incomprehensible. Either it was historically untrue or else it was a misreading of the EU as it actually is,” he said.

“There is growing bewilderment at the language used, at the desire to cast the EU as the enemy, which brave little Britain alone was resisting.”

The decision to hold a referendum on EU membership was seen as a perversion of parliamentary democracy, said MacGregor, especially in Germany.

“One of the things that bewilders them is that a democracy that had so invested in being absolutely clear that authority rests in parliament should surrender and confuse that in a referendum. That seemed to them to be an abandonment of the most important political achievement of the United Kingdom.”

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Tory education reforms are giving private school pupils a huge additional advantage in the hunt for university places and jobs by allowing them to sit easier GCSEs than the more rigorous exams that are being forced upon state schools, new official figures suggest.

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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... iversities



Exam reforms boost private pupils in race for universities

Policy incoherence? I'm shocked etc...

The irony is of course that the DfE and its cheerleaders are all for schools having more freedom as it is supposed to make schools better...but let them choose what exams their pupils sit? No way...

citizenJA wrote:

The furore over the Queen’s Christmas message was so much and fury
Queen Elizabeth II poses with the offending instrument in the background after recording her Christmas message at Buckingham Palace.

- Catherine Bennett
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Anyone make anything out of Bennett's article? I had little success figuring out the point of her piece.

...£40,668-per year Eton College...
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HindleA wrote:I preferred Stanley Baxter as Queen