I’ll shut up about political ironies soon, I promise, but I forgot about Blair claiming that it was “better to be right and lose than to be wrong and win.” Very Old Labour. SNORT! And then we have the Great Leader accusing MPs of being “out of touch” – this being the man who took… Continue reading Irony Blair
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More ironies
With apologies to any American readers out there, a couple more notes on my bemusement of the sheer zaniness of British politics: The Government pontificating on the need to listen to professionals when it comes to the police, while doing the exact opposite in the far more complicated field of medicine. Labour legislating to prevent… Continue reading More ironies
Loading the dice
Over at the Apollo Project, Peter links to an interesting article about selection in secondary education, and its inherent randomness. It isn’t clear in the article, but the local authority it refers to could well be Bromley, where I grew up and attended the Grammar. Either way, it certainly reflects my experience, where it did… Continue reading Loading the dice