Welcome to Pant Watch. Pant Watch exists to chronicle the dying days of the Blair administration. Technically, we are now at P-8, P-1 being the day that Steve Bell published this cartoon showing Blair wearing John Major’s pants of power. To be sure, Bell has portrayed Blair as a pant-wearer before, most memorably here, but… Continue reading Pant Watch: the Grand Coalition
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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