I’m glad I don’t live in Bournemouth any more…
…because of people like this. It doesn’t even matter whether it really happened or not, the fact is, if there’s one place where some selfish middle-aged git might block an…
The bit the Tories left out about teaching in Singapore
Amused, in a despairingly cynical way, to see that the best the Tories can come up with as an educational policy is to give teachers the power to seize iPods.…
Michael Phelps: why I’m not disappointed
From Reason.com, What Michael Phelps Should Have Said. The article is what I would like to have said, only Radley Balko’s said it better. I’m not given to having sporting…
Hooray for Siteground
You might have noticed that my site was down over the weekend (database issues), and for rather dull reasons, I couldn’t generate a support ticket to my webhost, Siteground, until…
Is this the most articulate woman in the world?
No not you, the one in the middle. I took this at the RAD staff party last night, and promised rashly to publish it today, but look, here it is.…
The Ayn Rand cult
One of the decisions I regret most in life is opting to take Ayn Rand’s novel The Fountainhead to Crete with me as holiday reading a few years ago. I’d…