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If politicos had the faintest idea and I had any residual faith of genuinity I might come to a different view,indeed there was a brief time of moving in the right direction as far as I was concerned,barring the ever pernicious and undermining DWP,which must go as a first step IMHO

“One of the side-effects of structurally-higher job insecurity is a reduced willingness to add to that uncertainty by moving job,” he said."

Blair says the problem with the negotiation is not that the government does not have skilled negotiators. He says Dominic Raab, the relatively new Brexit secretary, seems able and highly intelligent.

The Pope's Catholic, you know.

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Grayling offers MPs 'categorical assurance' that planes will not be grounded after Brexit (Politics Live, Guardian)

Blair's definitely lost the plot.

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https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/11/ofsted-to-ditch-using-exam-results-as-mark-of-success-amanda-spielma


Ofsted inspectors to stop using exam results as mark of success
Watchdog chief announces major shift, suggesting schools are too focused on test scores

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/oct/11/ofsted-to-ditch-using-exam-results-as-mark-of-success-amanda-spielman
Ofsted inspectors to stop using exam results as mark of success
Watchdog chief announces major shift, suggesting schools are too focused on test scores

Certainly for History there is no such person - the vast majority of academics /historians specialise in a particular area and/or time period and hence are able to only skim the surface with everything else

Labour has criticised the government after it emerged just four more days of parliamentary business has been scheduled, leading to questions about what the government plans to bring the the House of Commons in the coming weeks. Normally, in the business statement on a Thursday, Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the Commons, announces the business for the week ahead, and provisional business for the week after that.

Today, announcing the agenda just until Thursday next week, Leadsom told MPs that no more days could be scheduled because “a week changes a lot.” (Politics Live, Guardian - my emphasis)

I wonder how that came about?
That is a purely rhetorical question...
I have issues with Spielman talking about teachers being 'experts' in their subject. Certainly for History there is no such person - the vast majority of academics /historians specialise in a particular area and/or time period and hence are able to only skim the surface with everything else.

This is very amusing...especially the comments through the speech.

https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/ ... 0707011584

Morning all.





Shocked etc...

Work has begun to turn a motorway in south east England into a “parking lot” for lorries as part of a plan to prevent traffic chaos in the event of a no-deal Brexit, a senior MP said Thursday.
..Local MP Tom Tugendhat, the Conservative chair of the foreign affairs committee, expressed fury at the secrecy surrounding the project. Speaking in the House of Commons on Thursday morning he said: “It’s come to a pretty pass when [an MP] finds out that works have begun on a motorway to turn that motorway into a parking lot without consultation either with the local community or with surrounding [MPs].”

I’m wondering if there is such a thing as anti-nominativedetermanism?

I learn something new every day . As you missed it, the point is that the chief economist at the BoE makes an additional argument against the DWP's insistence that employed people on low incomes can always earn more .

My proposition for DWP staff is that any of them who receive state aid such as child benefit should have their salaries reduced if they don't earn more within say two months .

I wasn't in any way meaning to imply that you thought this was news, frog.Haldane thinking he was saying something profound, was my point.

In other news, is American Football really coming to the UK ?

Bread, a very little bread, and more circuses

Police still not investigating Leave campaigns, citing ‘political sensitivities’

https://opendemocracy.net/uk/brexitinc/james-cusick-adam-ramsay/met-police-stall-brexit-campaign-investigations-claiming-polit

Chris Grayling's name has been popping up a lot recently with regard to "Brexit" so, if anyone wasn't worried before . . .

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-plan-to-use-m26-motorway-as-parking-lot-port-dover-if-no-brexit-deal/amp/

Transport Committee
Freight and Brexit inquiry - publications
Inquiry status: open
The deadline for written evidence submissions was Friday 8 June 2018.

https://www.parliament.uk/business/comm ... lications/

Chris Grayling's name has been popping up a lot recently with regard to "Brexit" so, if anyone wasn't worried before . . .

Sam Gyimah, the higher education minister, insisted the plan was good value for money, and “an opportunity for the government to guarantee money upfront today rather than fluctuating an uncertain payments over a longer period of time”.

Johnny Mercer, said UC was “politically undeliverable” in his Devon constituency, and called for a planned increase in income tax thresholds to be scrapped in order to make the benefit more generous.

That would be a start.