Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

"Also, nice to hear this government seceding its responsibility for management of the economy to the BANK of England. Mind any good news will be put down to Porky and his "policies"!"

LOL... Carney is the only Governor to do exactly as he's told. Now he'll do as he's told and try and convince us it was his idea.... Could a puppet have anymore strings???

LONDON, June 9 (Reuters) - Britain's top school inspector said on Monday that an investigation into an alleged plot by extremist Muslims to take over the running of some schools in the city of Birmingham had found that a culture of "fear and intimidation" existed. In March, an official investigation was sparked by an anonymous, unverified letter which claimed there was a plot to force some state schools in Birmingham with majority-Muslim pupils to adopt a more Islamic culture by installing school governors and teaching staff who would support a conservative Islamic religious agenda. "Some of our findings are deeply worrying, and in some ways quite shocking," said Michael Wilshaw, head of the Ofsted schools inspectorate. "In the most serious cases, a culture of fear and intimidation has taken grip." He added that some schools had not taken their responsibility to protect children against religious extremism seriously enough, and that in one case a guest speaker with known extremist views had been invited to speak to pupils. David Hughes, Vice-Chairman of Park View Educational Trust which runs some of the schools implicated, rejected the conclusions of the report, saying the Ofsted inspections had been carried out in a climate of suspicion. He said the schools did not tolerate or promote extremism of any kind.

Shortie,

I thought the Bank was independent!

Nice to know its in cahoots with the government!

MMMMMH!


Some of the suggestions must be true!

Goldfinger

I still haven't started trading yet , just been scanning trading tips . Your 2-2 system, is it called that because its 2% of trading portfolio per trade and a 2% stop loss per trade ?

Been reading a book called Bets and the City Sally Nicoll's spread betting diary , is about a first time trader who takes bad advice from friends as well as getting pro advice from experts like John Piper ,Greg Secker and John Bartlett.

One for Goldfinger?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/disabled-mum-died-alone-penniless-3662850

This afternoon

Populus’s twice-weekly online poll – that had topline figures of CON 35%, LAB 36%, LDEM 9%, UKIP 14%

so you guys bitch about carney and no doubt you bitched about meryn king and ben bernanke, though perhaps you have yet to get your claws out for janet yellen
all pretty pathetic and predictable really, though no doubt you thought gordy brown did a fantastic job

religious schools
if a school is private and privately funded, then provided the ethos is not subversive, then i don't think there can or should be any objection
however, where it is taxpayer funded, i don't think ANY school should have a clear specific religion bias and that includes anglican or catholic as well

All religious schools are taxpayer funded. They are funded by virtue of having charitable status whereas they should be regarded as businesses. I don't want my taxes to be spent on the propagation of fairy stories,

not true ..... for starters, and like it or not, i think you'll find most if not all public schools are registered as charities .... that being so, and you can't just manipulate the rules to suit your own beliefs, then they have to conform to some pretty stringent rules

The difference is that most faith based schools are exclusive to pupils of that faith. That prohibition alone should merit charitable status being removed.

Again, not true, most faith based schools take other beliefs.

Only in theory. The school that I went to was a Catholic Jesuit grammar school and is now a compresenhive. A number of years ago, I tried to get one of my children in there. I was told that I needed a letter from my priest, a certificate of baptism and first communion. I said that in my day there were non Catholics at the school. I was told that now only applies if they do not have enough Catholics applying, which is never the case.

You went to a Catholic school did you H/S? no wonder you can't stand religion.

I went to a catholic school too, and whilst I don't subscribe, I see nothing wrong with it.

Indeed most catholic schools are over subscribed to hell and gone.

Not like the one I went to then Max, mine was more like indoctrination rather then education. Needless to say I rejected it when I could.

I see nothing wrong with faith schools, but I don't want any public money support. You want religious education, then pay the full cost and no subsidy, support and no charitable status.

which bit don't you read let alone understand of 42130?

I am not sure if I like public and other private schools being charities or not, but I definitely don't want it to apply to religion which I regard as harmful. It is about the intention. The intention of one is to provide excellent education. The other is to further the purposes and indoctrination of a religion. And I see no reason not to be able to put ck and choose who gets charitable status. The charity commission could have new rules that say no religious charities at all, including churches etc.

hays - in your own way, you are every bit as "fundamentalist" and intolerant as the religions you so decry and deplore ..... what you fail to grasp is that most religions set out little more than philosophies for life, propounding sensible and basic guidelines on how we should lead our lives ..... what's so wrong about that?

that most attach those guidelines to a higher being is almost irrelevant

i accept that the above is a very simplistic statement, but it's good enough