@landatthebottom I don't believe this because Bath Spa Uni is a combination of Newton Park Teacher Training College (Anita Roddick studied there), Bath College of Home Economics (Mary Berry studied there) and Corsham Art College. It just intuitively sounds wrong knowing people who went there.
@koshercockney Prison cells in England and Wales are neither dark nor dank. Get real. The women will be in Holloway presumably and the guy in some Cat B prison.
@ToryWipeout Well Starmer is absolutely ace at pompous bullshit so they probably thought they would give him a taste of his own medicine, or possibly thought it was the only language he would understand.
@karinpratt999@feistywomankent I used to sit through PIP and welfare fraud interviews on a regular basis so don't pull that fantasy. The local police mentioned they didn't see me any longer so I said I was only doing big crime, nothing less than £100,000 was worth me leaving the house for.
@s_everson@randomdorman Sadly, these days, the problem in primary schools is persuading parents to send their children to school in the first place and then getting children to walk past the school gate.
In secondary education it's all about crowd control.
@SamanthaTaghoy Lola McEvoy I think it is. Evidently she is responsible for industrial strategy (see Wikipedia) and if she's not going to do that without subsidising private businesses with tax breaks she's going to have a difficult time of it.
@s_everson@randomdorman Ha ha. I was at University with Kenneth Baker's main SPAD, a guy called Tony Kerpel! At least Kenneth Baker was well intentioned although he got taken in by weird academics who were keen on the Aztecs. Gareth Williamson is at the Phillipson level.
@s_everson@randomdorman One of the "achievements"(?) of the current government was to scrap a scheme aimed at promoting Latin teaching in state schools https://t.co/NFDp8NqH4w
@Hepworthclare That's simply disingenuous because Labour stitched up so many defence projects before they left office with unbreakable contract provisions whereby it was more expensive to cancel a contract than complete it.
@s_everson@randomdorman So why is it a problem if non-state schools offer these elitist languages you object to? Plenty of Greeks live in North London for example where there is even a London Greek radio station?
@DavidHeadViews The Aircraft Carriers are all down to Gordon Brown because it was a job creation project for his constituency. Like Geoff Hoon ("Buff" Hoon as he was known) with his fancy ideas about the destroyer power systems.