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Media in shock as system doesn’t achieve something it wasn’t intended to achieve
There’s been a mass outbreak of gentle head-shaking over the last couple of days, as media outlets have reported the findings of a study showing that Brighton’s lottery system for secondary schools has...
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Naming of parts
An idle Twitter conversation today with the redoubtable Dr Petra Boynton(@DrPetra) has me sliding back on to one of my favourite self-righteous hobby-horses: the apparent inability of sexually active...
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CiF trolls: a taxonomy
Like many whey-faced liberals incapable of bench-pressing a budgie, I spend a lot of time with the paper version of the Guardian. I read it, I stroke it, I take it to bed. We all do, right? Right. But...
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Sack Kay Burley! No really, just sack her
[This is my entry for Bright Green Scot's Dick of the Year contest; see the BGS site for other candidates and to cast your vote FOR KAY BURLEY.] ‘What are you protesting for? You might as well go...
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Mass CiF trespass: a proposal
Emboldened by the response to my long, whiny piece about CiF trolls (and befuddled by suet and booze), I’d like to propose that we make Monday 10 January the day of the first mass Comment is Free...
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Here is a list. You might be on it
Earlier this week, the people who live in my house got together to compile a shortlist of People and Things. We did this on the basis of What We Could See At The Time and also What Was In Our Heads...
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Going home for Christmas
The prickling sensation that something was wrong started when I got off the train – seven months’ pregnant, lugging my big bag, waddling through the ticket barrier at the familiar suburban station. I...
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A life on your knees
Today’s unveiling of a memorial to the ‘Bevin Boys’ – conscripted men who were sent down the mines during the Second World War – got me thinking about my grandfather Colwyn, who died about 20 years ago...
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