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Looking forward to 'reports' when you have time !PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Good Morfternoon from Xiamen, China where it's 7.00 am
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Apparently this is the 19th studio school to close.THE Isle of Wight Studio School will close next year due to a lack of demand.
Bosses said the school, which opened four years ago at Grange Road, East Cowes, was not financially viable in the long term.
The school for 14 to 19 year olds, run by the Inspire Academy Trust, was aimed at increasing local employment.
In addition to academic subjects, students were offered vocational qualifications and work placements with Isle of Wight employers.
However, the idea has failed to find favour with Isle of Wight families and the school is currently running at around 40 per cent capacity, with 49 students in Year 10 and 71 in Year 11.
High profile failures and public spending squeeze = keep services in house.Downing Street said the plans illustrated that Mr Cameron was prepared to go far further than any recent prime minister – including Tony Blair – on public sector reform.
The only exemptions will be the judiciary and the security services. All other public services will be expected to open up to private competition under the plans, which the Government hopes will slash bureaucracy, improve the quality of public services and save money.
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This isn't racism creeping out of the woodwork. It is a direct reflection of recent Daily Mail columns by Stephen Glover & Amanda Platell arguing that @afuahirsch & Stormzy should show 'gratitude' instead of questioning/criticising the status quo.
I really liked this one too --RogerOThornhill wrote:Interesting thread about Capita.
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17 and 18 are really key. All about managing risk and the last thing a government needs is a company failure and then to find out that they didn't have a clue as to how big a problem it is.
Also, Roger, one has to wonder what orders those people in the HO would NOT follow.RogerOThornhill wrote:Another threatened deportation...
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How is Amber Rudd still in a job?
Thanks.frog222 wrote:Looking forward to 'reports' when you have time !PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Good Morfternoon from Xiamen, China where it's 7.00 am
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(Havent checked the time difference, was looking for a couple of links for TBG. EDIT -- read in haste, now waking up !!!! )
On military grade nerve agent proliferation
an-alternative-explanation-to-the-skripal-mystery.
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Gareth Porter is one of the handful of really good journos.
Proliferation of more 'conventional' chem weapons --
yes-the-syrian-rebels-do-have-access-to-chemical-weapons.
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(Haven't looked at that site for years, but it was particularly good way back on the GFC.)
I'm not putting my hand in the fire on the ' Douma gassing', but so far as we can work out the USUKFR intel is all conveniently secret.
What is impressive is the readiness of the mainstream media to accept videos as absolute proof .
Hollywood rules
Continues with a small list of potential (but not necessarily sensible) candidates.However shiny the prize, the party is cautious.
“Sensible Tories know they’re not likely to win against Sadiq, who is a charismatic incumbent with both a popular fares policy that’s easing the burden of living in London and a strong record of taking on government by calling for ministers to open up the purse strings and invest in the capital,”
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Rees-Mogg says the idea of Brexit deal which penalises fishing is akin to Windrush scandal - trampling on individuals for the supposed common good. This is, he says again, socialism. This is something of a personal take on Windrush.
Baidu bot is a frequent visitor to FTN, so I knew this website was searchable in China but I'd never really thought about someone in China actually reading it. It may just be our own PaulfromYorkshire, but it's still a reminder of just how remarkable the World Wide Web truly is. Bringing people together. The internet may have been corrupted by social media, fake news and the dark web, but it still has many amazing and positive contributions to make to global understanding and co-operation. Like Open Science, for instance. It's by no means all bad.PaulfromYorkshire wrote:Good Morfternoon from Xiamen, China where it's 7.00 am
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Somebody beam me up please . Who sold a large percentage of the UK fishing quotas to forriners?RogerOThornhill wrote:Talking of sensible Tories, JRM proving once again that's about as close to being that as I am of being Pope...
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Rees-Mogg says the idea of Brexit deal which penalises fishing is akin to Windrush scandal - trampling on individuals for the supposed common good. This is, he says again, socialism. This is something of a personal take on Windrush.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... ret-obrien'I felt like dirt': disabled Canadian woman told to leave UK after 47 years
Margaret O’Brien’s treatment by Home Office suggests scandal goes beyond Windrush generation
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I'm not saying it absolutely couldn't happen - especially in today's febrile climate - but there are many powerful people determined that he should *not* be PM. Ever.Willow904 wrote:Jacob Rees-Mogg went a bit quiet for a while but he seems to be cranking up again at the moment. Are we heading towards a leadership challenge? I mean, sometimes I think the likes of Rees-Mogg are mostly for show and underneath are working quietly simply to protect their own privilege and wealth. But then other times I find myself wondering if they actually believe the abject bollocks they come out with and then I get really nervous because then I realise they might actually believe themselves capable of running a country and might even be able to persuade others of this too. Please tell me no one would be fool enough to make Jacob Rees-Mogg PM. I mean, it couldn't happen, right? Most Tories are at least half human, aren't they?
I think the wording keeps changing on the gov.UK immigration websites, little changes that aren't officially labelled updatesPorFavor wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... ret-obrien'I felt like dirt': disabled Canadian woman told to leave UK after 47 years
Margaret O’Brien’s treatment by Home Office suggests scandal goes beyond Windrush generation
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Nothing like a bit of constructive criticism.Speaking in Parliament, at an event organised by the Open Europe think tank, Mr Rees-Mogg mocked the idea as “completely cretinous”, also calling it “impractical, bureaucratic”.
No 10 has not confirmed that Ms May prefers the partnership plan to a so-called “customs arrangement” – based on new technology and trusted status for smaller traders.
badly trolled by Tory governmentRees-Mogg claims Home Office 'socialism' to blame for Windrush injustices - Politics live
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After two years of mandatory sign-ins at a Home Office location far from home, an indefinite leave to remain stamp in an expired Canadian passport noticed by a case worker in the Refugee and Migrant Centre was apparently the thing letting her stay and her disability benefits restored. She's worked and lived in the UK for decades, came to the UK in 1971, prior legislative acts applied to her inappropriately. She'd official documentation enough already proving this. Haphazard and inconsistent rules applied or not is crazy-making. You'll never know.PorFavor wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/201 ... ret-obrien'I felt like dirt': disabled Canadian woman told to leave UK after 47 years
Margaret O’Brien’s treatment by Home Office suggests scandal goes beyond Windrush generation
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JEREMY Corbyn took more than three hours to congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their third royal baby child - a boy - at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, sparking frustration across social media.
How low can he go?tinybgoat wrote:https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/95 ... bridge/amp
"Jeremy Corbyn SILENT for HOURS after Kate and William welcome royal baby"JEREMY Corbyn took more than three hours to congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their third royal baby child - a boy - at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, sparking frustration across social media.
I quietly ponder a lot before saying something too.tinybgoat wrote:https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/95 ... bridge/amp
"Jeremy Corbyn SILENT for HOURS after Kate and William welcome royal baby"JEREMY Corbyn took more than three hours to congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their third royal baby child - a boy - at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, sparking frustration across social media.
How low can the Express go, more likePaulfromYorkshire wrote:How low can he go?tinybgoat wrote:https://www.express.co.uk/news/royal/95 ... bridge/amp
"Jeremy Corbyn SILENT for HOURS after Kate and William welcome royal baby"JEREMY Corbyn took more than three hours to congratulate the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge on the birth of their third royal baby child - a boy - at the Lindo Wing of St Mary’s Hospital, sparking frustration across social media.
Tower Hamlets council complained about an article on the front page of the newspaper’s 30 August edition – the third front page dedicated to the story that week – in which the newspaper had implied a judge had ruled against the council by ordering that the then five-year-old girl be removed from the Muslim household and placed with her grandmother. In fact, it was the council that had requested the girl be placed with her grandmother.
Under the headline: “Ipso upholds complaint against Times”, the paper says in Wednesday’s edition that Ipso has ruled the article breached rule one of the editor’s code, which concerns accuracy.
The Ipso ruling, which was published in full on page two, called the 30 August article a “distortion” of the issue.