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.

talking of education, the prog last night was very interesting ......
5 chinese teachers were seconded for a month to a high-performing comprehensive
the year was then split in two, with one half staying with the current system and the other being taught "chinese method"

the chinese method was strong on discipline - good - but was incredibly old-fashioned in the teaching method - teacher at the front preaches at the children and tells them what to memorise; questioning more than discouraged

this chinese system (12 hours a day in china) clearly produces great exam results, but totally stifles encouragement or the ability to think

however, another good side of the chinese system was the emphasis on physical exercise and sporting as well as classroom competition

Heath went togrammar school ramsgate, father carpenter, mother a maid. Then Oxford via county scholarship, war, civil service, MP.

hay I copied it from the press .

and I do not believe the scandal about ted rubbish some woman wanting attention and a brown envelope a liar and a lady of the night

rather like roy jenkins's background then

hay my view blair and yankee bot friend are war criminals and should be hung
they are guilty . had thousands killed for their lies weapons of mass destruction
non ever found . lies lies lies

It is interests me is how Cameron and Cameron can dish out cash to old boys in the city by selling the tax- payers’ property at a knock down price and hand out tax benefits to his paymasters and cronies, but not find money to tide over Kids Company.

The one thing that Cameron and his sycophantic neo-conservative followers have, is an abundance of Moral turpitude

excuse me, but Kids Company looks very suspect on examination

i must confess, it would be wonderful if just once in while you could get off that soapbox of yours ..... you are just so incredibly predictable, repetitive and boring

Manuel,

That is part of your problems.

What you absorb or introject in childhood comes on to haunt you and others laterl in life!

That is why you are what you are and others shouldn't be too hard on you!

so what made you into such a predictable, boring and repetitive drone then?

Dealing with the likes of you!

Oh, dear that will upset Fred

fred she along with her cronies have been milking the cow.
are you just thick piece of shit stuck in the toilet

i think you mean that you find that you're out of touch with most of the rest of the world, and your ossified brain can no longer cope, so it just spews out the same long outdated dogma day after day after day

Say it like it is TANKER , who is going to pull the chain and flash him away

Camila Batmanghelidjh ceo of charity pay £ 90000 plus 30k for meals travel
the charity was for her not children

The government recently gave them a grant of £3m. It might have been better to replace the management.

CB was surely given the heave-ho but there's more than that to it i think

she as milked it dry with her friends and screwed the real workers in the company .
filling her own pockets they could of employed 5 teachers on her salary
charge her go and look at the accounts

she was paid twice as much as a mp

Just saw her on BBC. She blames the Civil Service. Her organisation was based on pseudoscience about biological roots to children's behaviour.