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Yes, they like to pick students from Eton. I'm afraid despite what they say, I have no confidence that there is a level playing field when it comes to getting into Oxbridge. Although I also agree with those saying Johnson is a clever man. But I think his intelligence is very much emotional...

Yes I did - apologies. I wasn't really joining in the discussion on the thread rather than giving my opinion about the issue at hand. As I said I wasn't talking about on this thread, but more widely on twitter etc. Also I'm not saying all Brexiteers would support Cummings, but I do think most...

I'm reading this at the moment: It's mostly focused on Trump in America, but has some excellent parallels to here as well. The chapter I'm currently on talks about when tolerance for the opposition and willingness to follow unwritten conventions decrease, and forbearance disappears. It's...

I don't think it does any harm and each to their own, but last night was the first time I gave it a miss, partly after a friend of mine who is a doctor shared the above Guardian article. I feel it's gone a long way from what it started as - inspired by the footage of people doing it in Italian...

I fancy the wheels to come off. They weren't great against Switzerland and beating Scotland hardly means anything.

Regarding the google meet stuff - we're told cameras off. Personally I'd value being able to teach my sixth formers face to face a lot more, but I think they would probably prefer not to. A lot of pedagogy on online teaching says webcams are a distraction and voice only is better. However...

Just remembered I resolved a while back to stay out of these threads. Good day all!

I think regarding bigotry it depends how you define it. If you're talking specifically about religious intolerance, then I don't think there's a huge amount of that in the Glasgow rivalry. I don't think you'd meet many Celtic or Rangers fans who have any issue with Catholics or Protestants - in...

Wasn't going to get dragged into this, but there we go. Firstly, schools probably will reopen when told to. As an NEU member, I've received emails for primary school teachers with checklists and guidelines related to reopening, and secondary and sixth form ones are to follow. This idea that the...

Would be interesting what case Liverpool would have? I would have thought that the main angle in court would be loss of income. I would imagine it would be quite hard for Liverpool to prove a significant loss of income through them not winning the league. But I am not a sports lawyer, so who...

Ok, well I am actually a public sector worker so definitely speaking for myself. Just seems a strange fight to pick (the original article that is) when such a huge percentage of the public will have taken money from the government by the time this is all over.

Aren't we pretty much all public sector employees at the moment?

You can look closer to home - pretty much the same system is used in Scotland, Wales and the London Assembly. Funny how no-one creating a new institution from scratch thinks FPTP is a good idea.

This. As an avid supporter of PR, I get so frustrated with people who are opposed to it, without any sort of understanding of how it truly works. The German AMS system also maintains constituency representation, and still ensures the larger parties have enough seats for workable coalitions to...

When I reported my BMX stolen about 12 years ago at the police station, the conversation went: "Here is a card saying you've reported it stolen, that should work for your insurance". "Ah I don't think it's insured". "Oh. Why are you here then?".

This is effectively the situation with my dad. Season ticket holder since 1993 (might have missed Year 1 at Gillingham), but due to circumstances has moved back to Ireland - but chose to keep his ST to continue supporting the club, use when he can, and because he will be moving back here. When...

They refused to allow my dad to do that a couple of years ago - as he lives in Ireland and can't make every game.

Fair enough. I read it as trying to make out that a very significant number of people want to do this, and you should only not if you can't, or if you "don't want to" (you selfish *******).

Something like "it's your money so we presume you want it back - however let us know if you want us to keep it". Don't worry I won't be losing sleep over it but I don't like being made to feel a little like I should be gifting the club £140 given the circumstances the Albion are now in. And...