Tag Archives: Education

It’s official! Our children are even cleverer than last year

By scrubber | Published: August 19, 2010
Firstly, apologies for the paucity of posts lately. I’ve been away a while, and the back-up team seems to have gone AWOL as well. Anyway, I popped home today for lunch and caught the local BBC News. The piece I saw was the usual short clip about how more A levels have been passed at higher [...]
Posted in Broken Britain, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Nick Clegg, Political Stupidity | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Sport! Who needs it?

By scrubber | Published: June 28, 2010
I hadn’t intended to write about football today, of all days. Frankly, I’d rather forget the appalling display I and about 20 million other people in the UK witnessed yesterday, but it’s hard to avoid. I’m really a rugby man, and I’d be quite happy to go back to reading the humourous texts flooding into [...]
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Gordon Brown ignores ‘heckling’ father

By DiamondGeezer | Published: April 8, 2010
As reported in the Telegraph and in other national newspapers/broadcasts today, Gordon Brown was challenged by a father over why his children cannot get in to the schools they would like. I would highly recommend watching the video on the Telegraph article. Little amuses me more than seeing politicians (servants of the people?) [...]
Posted in Education, General Election, Gordon Brown, Tony Blair | Also tagged , , , | 1 Comment

David Cameron; 10/10 for presentation skills

By scrubber | Published: March 16, 2010
Along with about 1.7 million viewers, I watched David Cameron interviewed by Sir Trevor MacDonald last Sunday (14 March 2010). Apparently, Gordon Brown’s interview blub-fest with Piers Morgan on the same network last month achieved an audience of 4.2 million. I don’t know if the difference can be accounted for by the car-crash effect, where ghouls [...]
Posted in David Cameron, Economy, Education, General Election, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

Free laptops! Get your free laptop here!

By scrubber | Published: February 16, 2010
Well, well, well. Just as I predicted over a month ago, The Prime Mentalist’s vote-buying scheme to give free laptops to pupils from poor backgrounds at a cost of over £300m is wide open to fraud. It seems my second post of a few days later pointing out a fantastic ebay spoof has come horribly [...]
Posted in Education, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, New Labour, Quangoes, Taxpayers' Money | Also tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Gordon Brown just doesn’t get it…

By scrubber | Published: January 11, 2010
The Grauniad just tweeted this, and intrigued by the tweet, read the article. Just what, exactly, is this man on? Apparently: ‘In what aides described as a sign of his commitment to “aspiration”, the prime minister said he wanted every household to have broadband access to the internet.’ I’m at a loss as to how providing “270,000 low [...]
Posted in Corruption, Economy, Education, Gordon Brown, Ministerial incompetence, Nanny State, Quangoes, Taxation, Taxpayers' Money, Technology | Also tagged , , , , , | 4 Comments

It’s all Chinese to me..

By DiamondGeezer | Published: January 6, 2010
Continuing yesterday’s theme of education (, education, education), I thought I would drop in this Telegraph article on Mr. Balls’ announcement that every child should learn to speak Mandarin at school. Wikio Wikio
Posted in Education, Ministerial incompetence | Also tagged | 3 Comments

Toddler as Second Lord of the Treasury?

By DiamondGeezer | Published: January 5, 2010
As was this morning reported in The Telegraph, the government has decided to teach children from the age of 5 how to manage their finances and to avoid debt. Excuse me? This government is preaching to the populace on debt avoidance? Wikio Wikio
Posted in Economy, Gordon Brown | Tagged | 2 Comments