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Actor, writer, licenced lay minister in the Church of England.

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@ewenmind @KushalBuke Alligator Loki stayed an alligator and Throg stayed Throg, so yes.

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@LouiseLemonTree @LBC Plus you are working in a shop whose function is to make people feel better. I really enjoyed my time as a Boots Christmas temp.

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@GKunstwerk @BMcGrewvy @Historycourses I think it’s more like ‘Jesus showed them the way and they repented… and yeah, they’re still idiots.’

And Paul’s ability to have a massive row with *everybody* is a sight to behold.

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@CentralHogwarts To be fair to Petunia, the Wizarding World got her sister murdered and her nephew orphaned.

Her motives for not wanting Harry to go to Hogwarts were mixed, to say the least.

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@Layo_FH If you can sort out people making pavements unusable for the disabled by dumping their Lime bikes, fine.

I’m relatively able bodied, but last week in Central London we pedestrians were having to take turns passing along the pavement. The Lime bikes left barely any room.

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@portraitinflesh @jk_rowling The answer is probably’We have this great spell to repair your eyesight but it involves replacing them both with magical eyes’.

And the wizard responds ‘Err… I hear the muggles have these things they call ‘glasses’?’

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@NataliiSpeaks But they clearly need some kind of border control because they’ve got dead people trying to cross the bridge when they’ll sink through it and live people getting cursed and needing to be directed to a cure.

It’s more ‘officers, go rescue Héctor again’ than anything.

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@UbahRubaTuba @mrgracemugabe No, that’s a myth. It’s 9 to 29%, not a majority. Most JDs have been abused, but most abused kids don’t become JDs.

Harry was under a protective spell while he lived at the Dursley’s, so it may be the spell meant he always knew at some level that he was loved and protected.

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@walloper2025 IBM Selectric 1 costs about ten times as much?

‘It will blow the Props budget’ is usually the explanation when props aren’t period accurate.

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@monkeyarchetype @peppertcny Well between those two scenes Tony realised his dad was on a Hydra assassination list.

Realising your Dad was delighted you were off to boarding school hits different when you finally get that he was delighted you’d be *safe*.

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@AliTimesTwo @Trivium21c Yes, this is why I’m taking such exception to ‘a rise of $2000 a year isn’t a significant rise’. The cohort studied averages mid twenties. That’s the beginning of a career.

A steady job with prospects is life changing if the background is min wage.

But we do need more research

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@Trivium21c @AliTimesTwo No, based on *your interpretation * of the data.

Which is displaying a lot of ‘I don’t like one set of results, so I will find reasons that rise isn’t really a rise.’

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@Trivium21c @AliTimesTwo Well if you don’t want to show that you think those born into disadvantage are destined to stay there, you really shouldn’t a) select your preferred research results and b) interpret a rise as staying stable.

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@Trivium21c @AliTimesTwo Yup. And then we found you are quoting from one study that gives results you agree with.

When tasked with the other study, a 12% increase by someone’s mid twenties now isn’t enough. Generally, such an increase would not be considered levelling out, especially early in a career.

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@Trivium21c @AliTimesTwo You implied it when you said $40 extra a week in your mid 20s just wasn’t good enough. It needs to be life changing.

So how much is good enough?

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@Trivium21c @AliTimesTwo You think $2000 is a small increase? In percentage terms, one report I read stated it was 12% above district school peers.

So there’s one ‘no difference’, one ‘some improvement’. In a non partisan world, that sounds like the experiment is doing no harm and might do some good.

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@Trivium21c @AliTimesTwo And the Florida study?

And how does this replicate in the English system, which is funded differently?

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@katielockett @man1cm1ner @joon_of @Miss_Snuffy You can pick out of Brent places and have the other four in Brent.

Have you considered being a school governor? They need people to do this who’ll hold schools to account (and you’ll learn a lot about admissions policies).

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@joon_of @man1cm1ner @Miss_Snuffy As I understand, the council only considers first choice if a child is on the ‘admit’ list for two or more schools.

So if a child lives near enough to Michaela to get a place, but their first choice school is full, they will get a place over a ‘first choice’ kid further away.

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@fran3kly @mindofprospect 40% of children don’t manage a 4 in English or Maths. This year an average of 32.7% of the overall entries in GCSEs were graded 3 or below.

Which is why a lot of FE college trade courses will specify a grade 3, a grade 2… and why I’m more optimistic than you.