Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
Congratulations to Keir Starmer's old school, Reigate Grammar School - Times Independent School of the Year.
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,920
victor matcham wrote:NOT TRUE,
What is not true?
The majority of call centre calls I get seem to originate in India going by their scam content.
BTW. Most manufacturing companies that still exist have fewer employees in comparison to years ago, machines and computers rule the factory floor
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,088
victor matcham wrote:NOT TRUE,
Well, I thought I'd got away with that little joke, VM, but you caught me out there.
I own up, I never met a German and a Greek in Peking.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,259
“We are continuing to work closely with the small number of staff affected to provide support throughout this process.
Over 10% of the workforce? Not that small a number
Arte et Marte
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
"the impact of falling birth rates".
Yet we are building housing over farmland all over the district ?
Arthur likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Arthur- Registered: 18 Nov 2020
- Posts: 452
Think we’re building for London Boroughs shipping out their clients!
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
In Deal it's 'Everybody out '!
https://x.com/kelvmackenzie/status/1928055901052670335
Wheras in Sandwich, in spite of a head who "impressed with her enthusiasm, passion and commitment all of which is underpinned by a clear understanding of the challenges that face our young people in the 21st century.”
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/new-head-teacher-at-sandwich-23737/
Our Tracy takes an early, if gold plated and index linked, bath:-
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/how-new-head-is-turning-around-troubled-school-324686/
Our coastal communities (dread phrase) continue to underperform:-
https://www.educationopportunities.co.uk/news/new-report-shows-coastal-and-rural-young-people-missing-out-on-higher-education/"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
'While 40 years ago, London was an education disaster zone, today it is the highest-achieving part of the country and the lowest levels of achievement are found in shire and coastal areas'
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14768293/White-working-class-pupils-secondary-schools.html"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
'A groundbreaking new academy offering “the best facilities in the country” for budding scientists is set to launch next year'.
Brilliant news. We really need more of this.
Elitist? I bloody well hope so!
Second place IS first of the losers.
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sandwich/news/there-s-nothing-like-it-groundbreaking-new-academy-to-lau-330945/Arthur likes this
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,282
19.2% of children in UK secondary schools, 23.4% in UK primary schools, and 30.2% of children in nursery do not speak English as their first language.
--2024/25 data
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
"We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
