Putting right what once went wrong.
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“I intend to send lots of your money to foreigners.”
As #COP31 begins, my message is clear: no country can tackle the climate crisis alone.
Britain will work with countries around the world to tackle the climate crisis, while leading a transition at home that brings down bills, creates jobs and protects our communities.
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I recently watched a documentary about the building of the Victoria Tube line in the 60s. The footage of ordinary people made you want to cry.
A report about the rising cost of living in Ireland from 1989, but that's not the interesting part.
Just look at the crowds, completely homogenous. This is the Ireland I grew up in, not a foreigner in sight.
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After 10 minutes of me tutoring Pythagoras, my kids have learned how to label the sides, I’ve done three examples of finding the Hypotenuse, and they’ve done three questions finding the Hypotenuse.
Recently been checking out other Maths tutors. Can’t believe how bad some of them are. Watched a video yesterday of a woman “teaching” Pythagoras. Waffling for ten minutes about areas. Really confusing. She charges £60 an hour.
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Hang.
⚖️ A 15-year-old boy from London has been sentenced to just over 7 years for two counts of rape & burglary
The boy broke into a house in Nuneaton & raped a woman then stole her car keys
15 years old. Absolutely despicable. He will likely be released before he's 20 & then what? Free to do it again
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Recently been checking out other Maths tutors. Can’t believe how bad some of them are. Watched a video yesterday of a woman “teaching” Pythagoras. Waffling for ten minutes about areas. Really confusing. She charges £60 an hour.
Alanis Morissette comes out as pansexual.
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Randomly came across a very interesting 1969 documentary on how they dug the Victoria Tube line. They started by digging a big hole under the intersection of Oxford Street and Regents Street. But the old footage of normal Londoners makes you want to cry.
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You just never know how immigration is going to impact our society. Now teenagers can’t get that crucial first step into the world of work.
We've gone from British teenagers serving coffee in high street cafes to grown Indian men working those jobs - an almost total replacement in five years.
This is not a good development. It must be reversed.
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Hang.
Killer who beat 67-year-old to death for telling child not to ride Lime Bike on the pavement is jailed for less than four years trib.al/liAbDhw
Hang.
🚨 NEW: Teen admits unprovoked Barry Island stabbing that left 17-year-old with amputated leg
• Idris Ahmed, 19, from Riverside in Cardiff, changed his plea to guilty at Newport Crown Court to grievous bodily harm with intent and possession of a knife
• The attack took place on a busy bank holiday on 25 May 2026 when the unnamed 17-year-old victim was at Barry Island beach with friends
• Ahmed struck the teenager without warning after the victim had acted as a peacemaker between two groups
• The boy was airlifted to hospital, underwent four surgeries and later required a through-knee amputation after oxygen failed to reach the lower half of his leg
• He is due to be sentenced on 27 November after pre-sentence reports are prepared for the young offenders institution
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I get why kids hate Maths. Since the exam reforms, you’ve got pupils who are barely going to scrape a level 5, being forced to do Higher GCSE. Years of being taught material they don’t understand. Feeling stupid. Working hard but getting nowhere.
Being out of your depth in a math class is a huge problem because your learning progress grinds to a halt.
It's not like you're on a train that left late from the station. It's like you're on a train that's not even moving.
The train might even start moving backwards. If you're so far out of your depth that you're just flailing around on the problems, then:
1. You're not absorbing much implicit review on the component skills you've previously learned.
2. As a result, you're forgetting them.
The only way to get the train moving forwards again is to drop down and work at a level that's appropriate for you. (Or, depending on circumstances, you may have to stay in the class and put in lots of time getting remedial support on those things outside of class.)
If you don't get back to practicing at the level you’re at, the situation compounds into a vicious cycle, getting worse and worse. Each class you take, you come in less and less prepared, getting more and more out of your depth.
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At my last school, I did a interview lesson and about 50% of the pupils didn’t have a pen. The very well paid managers were extremely incompetent, either for not knowing what was going on in their school or for continuing to allow it to happen.
It's a context thing again. The majority of pupils can come in equipped if we expect them to. It's not practical for a school of 1500 plus to provide multiple items throughout the day. Nor does it teach responsibility. In a primary, young pupils need support. Same with SEND
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28 previous convictions. Should have been hung years ago.
A motorist who mowed down a cyclist and dragged him for more than a mile to his death has been jailed for life.
itv.com/news/granada/2026-11…
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My parents would tell me, that back in the 60s, you could walk out of a job on the Friday, and start a new one on the Monday.
Circa 1996-2003, the job market was so healthy you could tell a boss to go fuck himself and be working somewhere else in a week or so. That's before minimum wage and EU employment red tape kicked in. It was better for workers to have the flexibility and choice and better for employers as the people working for them actually wanted to. That's what we need to get back to - not bailing our failing poundshops.
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