…powered by empathy & Schadenfreude
It seems Michael Gove is taking credit for a LibDem policy, the Pupil Premium. I wrote the email below on 14 June in response to a request from the local LibDem party leader for someone to host a Zoom session Continue reading Failure to get the message across
Not that he needs it right now to do his job, but when will Cummings get his peerage? Recent link (my description): Dismantling government
I want to buy a book on world slavery. History lessons until high school were fascinating, especially when taught by a teacher I had my first ever crush on. The English Mediaeval period quickly became my favourite, the feudal system Continue reading Slavery (book)
I felt the need to post this in my local Facebook group: I’ve lived here for ‘only’ 13 years; in that time I’ve I’ve only once had to pick up dog poo* from our front garden or the path outside. Continue reading Mess
On Wednesday I asked on our primary school’s school/PTA Facebook page if there was a plan to have video lessons now there’s no realistic prospect of a return to school before September. Instead of publicly engaging they replied via a Continue reading Primary schooling?
There’s an important distinction to be made between slavery and racism. Throughout recorded history nations have both subjugated other nations and used slaves to work in fields, manufacturing enterprises, homes and to build major infrastructure projects like monuments, walls… Perhaps Continue reading Slavery
There’s no point in asking, you’ll get no reply Oh just remember I don’t decide I got no reason it’s all too much You’ll always find us out to lunch – The Sex Pistols, July 1977 Yesterday I responded to Continue reading Pretty vacant
“Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those Continue reading Progress
I (perhaps we as a family) needed a distraction from the frustrations of politics and from the mental anguish of coping with the restrictions imposed/self-imposed during the current coronavirus pandemic, so I ordered the Harry Potter Trivial Pursuit game. An Continue reading Distraction (almost zero politics)
Here are 2 comments of mine in the village Facebook page, responding first to the dilution of the government’s lockdown message, and then (indirectly for obvious reasons) to a couple of arseholes stating that care homes and the old should Continue reading Morally bankrupt