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Ha ha, yes. As in Paul Dehn's version about 60 years ago:- Ring a ring of neutrons, A pocketful of positrons. A fission! A fission! We all fall down.

One difficulty of course is that children hear views being expressed by their parents and other members of their family. If the result of being encouraged to think critically in class leads to a conflict with their parents' views, what will happen? The child may not wish to recognise that...

Yes, there's a question about how long does it remain sensible to continue saying "I won't ever vote Lib-Dem again" (or Labour. or Conservative) when the event that turned somebody against them is several years back and most of the people responsible for the decision are no longer in politics...

Four years ago we chose agent B because my daughter said that, when selling her house, she'd first tried agent A, who didn't manage to sell it, and after she'd switched to agent B she found they provided feedback about what viewers had said, whereas agent A hadn't. Agent B had about six offices...

I agree with several of the earlier posts. In addition, coalitions in the past have worked out badly for one of the partners. The Lib Dems were almost wiped out after 2010-15. The coalition government of 1931 onwards became mainly Conservative in practice. The coalition of 1940-45 ended...

It's a silly and unnecessary name. I doubt whether the majority of passengers know or care that someone has decided that the train should have a name or what it is. Announcing that the next train was an SWR Juniper or Desiro would be equally pointless. It's faintly possible that the use of...

We had an email last week from Mrs Mavis, who had won a vast sum in $ and decided to give most of it away. We were one of five lucky recipients she had selected. Just press the link to accept. Yesterday there was a phone call from a woman with a good English accent who said she was from...

One thing that amazes me is that some news organisations employ people to pore over photos in the hope of finding evidence that will enable them to say "Look, this photo has been manipulated. Her hand isn't in line with her jumper. Her zip doesn't line up with her buttons." And then...

I think this is a very significant factor. We not only see it in relation to politics, but also in all kinds of personal matters, where people have the opportunity to be unpleasant about those whose views they don't agree with. It all adds up to a growth of intolerance and, sometimes...

Do you have any evidence for that allegation? Much more realistic than Gloster's post. They are like ducks proceeding down a narrowing decoy tunnel, hoping for an exit, but in the end there'll be nowhere else to go.

Each filled pothole will be required to have a label stating "The repair of this pothole was financed with money saved by cancelling the extension of HS2". Perhaps the tar that's used will be specially coloured blue to remind you, as you drive over it, how you should vote.

There is a solution to the issue raised by the OP, which is seat regulation so that no-one travels without a seat reservation. But does the possible danger from luggage blocking the exit justify such a change in rail travel arrangements? It reminds me of the calls for seat belts on trains...

Around 1991 the word "turbo" was quite widely used to denote something fast, up-to-date, efficient, or generally to try to convey the impression that it represented a Great Step Forward.

"...By its population in general" may perhaps be too harsh, but there is little doubt that many Germans knew the sort of things that were going on, even if after the war they claimed not to. In a book "The Scourge of the Swastika" by Lord Russell of Liverpool, published in about 1955, he...

I'd assume that they changed to a different supplier for their "own brand" eggs, who has a different breed of hen.

Yes, of course it will. You could have made that point explicitly, as you have now done above. The way you put it in the original post doesn't make that point. You chose to contrast allegedly Conservative-voting Express-buying pensioners with exhausted working people unable to make it to the...

That's a fairly extreme piece of stereotyping. All pensioners vote Conservative. Pensioners aren't among those who find it hard to make ends meet. It's potentially insulting to pensioners who might have different view from those you've ascribed to them. Are you trying to brainwash people...

A view supported by the fact that the announcement comes from the HR Director, who would have been involved in discussions about the immediate departure of such a senior figure.

I think this is one of the most important factors. Other posts have referred to privatisation, the sale of social housing, changes to trade union law, etc., for all of which there was some justification, though as others have said they may have taken place too quickly or without sufficient...

I'm glad you said that. I was teaching in a secondary school in 1974, at the time of the 3-day week. Some children then qualified for free meals because of the reduction in their parents' income. I asked some of them if they felt the situation caused them any difficulty. It was obvious that...