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    Jeremy Corbyn's Glastonbury Debut Confirmed

    He's not crashing anything, he's on in the Leftfield, which has always has political stuff on there in the afternoon. If you look at the bill, on both days it's political stuff, not just him. Glastonbury is not, and never has been, JUST a music festival.
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    Sorry for the over-emotional post, but I'm about to be reunited with the love of my life.

    I have no idea. I have a turntable in the box though!
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    Sorry for the over-emotional post, but I'm about to be reunited with the love of my life.

    LOL, would be difficult with no railways on the island! Anyway, it's arrived.
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    Sorry for the over-emotional post, but I'm about to be reunited with the love of my life.

    A lot. :) As to "sort of stuff", it's very diverse, goes right back to the 50s and was uip =to date when I left the UK 7 years ago. I DJ'd in both mainstream and alternative clubs for many years. You can see most of it here: https://www.discogs.com/user/ForkMe/collection although it's about...
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    Sorry for the over-emotional post, but I'm about to be reunited with the love of my life.

    We've been apart for 7 years since I left the UK and moved to Cyprus. It's been a long trip by boat, but I've just had the phone call. In half an hour my record collection will be here!
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    Jeremy Corbyn's Glastonbury Debut Confirmed

    Really, a party leader actually getting out there and talking to young people smacks of desperation? Seems ;like a good idea to me.
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    Top Gear is back

    I used to love "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush", but it all went downhill from there...
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    How much is the Referendum Campaign influencing you?

    I agree, I don't think we should be having this referendum at all. I voted to stay, I'm not an economist, I don't have the expertise to say for sure whether we're better off in our out, however, from where I'm sitting "out" seems like a huge gamble, particularly for the younger generation.
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    Where have NSC posters been in the world?

    Don't recognise the name 007 bar. Police violence still happens here although it's finally starting to get some attention in the mainstream press. When it happens it can be a lot worse than a beating with a phone book as well. Finally, two cops have been found guilty of a beating in a police...
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    Where have NSC posters been in the world?

    Technically, the airport and ports in the North are "closed" according to the law of the republic and are therefore "illegal points of entry". In reality though, they now let people through anyway if they're EU citizens. I've been to Turkey and back through Ercan with no problem. I have a page...
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    Where have NSC posters been in the world?

    According to them I've done 22, partly because they count Eurpean and Asian Turkey as one each. They also count Northern Cyprus, and also count the four countries of the UK as separate entities.
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    Where have NSC posters been in the world?

    Currently live in Cyprus but been to: France, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Vatican, Greece, Turkey, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Poland, Serbia, Lebanon, Thailand, UAE, USA. I've also been to the "British Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekalia", I've been in the UN buffer...
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    Firstly, I didn't say teacher's are always right, if you're going to wade in, why don't you try having a go for something I actually said, rather than something you wish I said? As to the rest of your post, it's complete nonsense. To be good at most things you need to have studied them one...
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    No, it isn't like that at all. I notice you've completely ignored the question about qualifications. Research is not something anyone can do, for it to be valid you have to understand the difference between valid and unreliable studies, and yes, you do need some knowledge of the field you're...
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    Really? In what field? What are your qualifications? What actual classroom experience have you got?
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    Why do you keep repeating the same thing over and over? I don't care HOW many peer reviewed journals the book uses, the book is making a study of those journals. The link I posted is also a review putting together peer reviewed studies, but that review is, itself, also peer reviewed. Anyone...
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    There's a few points here. Firstly, I'll take a peer reviewed paper over a book any day. What exactly are YOUR qualifications to say the book is definitely right and everyone else is wrong? Secondly, why discount actual experience? The smallest class I have ever taught is 2, the largest 32, and...
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    By the way, here's a genuine peer assessed and published study that suggests class size DOES matter. Again, it's an analysis of all the research done to date, rather than just one piece of research...
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    So you tell me, however, your analysis of it runs contrary to my 20 years experience actually doing the job. I'm not going to just take the book's word for it, I want to see the actual studies. All we have in that book is one person's analysis of them. Who's thew author? What qualifications does...
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    Has the High Court abolished school term time?

    Are you? I doubt that very much, and if you are, I'd like to see a link to the study, because I;m speaking from a position of 20 years of teaching and experience of both very small and very large classes.

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