...in-person teaching this term. The other 24 say they have opted for a ‘blended’ approach which will include students ‘attending’ lectures online. The Times has the story. The universities of...
...still pretended to tolerate dissent. Being consistently ‘orthogonal to the orthodoxy’ (hat tip Sunetra Gupta), I can’t afford professional cancellation, hence retention of the invisibility cloak. In a way, the...
...real-time online learning. Eighty-one per cent told the Office for National Statistics (ONS) that their school had done so, compared with 93% in the least deprived areas. The ONS said...
...their emotional well-being. As early as autumn 2020, U.K.’s Ofsted had identified: A 42% rise in self-harm and eating disorders An ‘explosion’ of children with disabling tic disorders Record numbers of...
...feminine ‘e’ and plural ‘s’ to masculine words to neutralise them. For example, turning ‘cher lecteur’ (dear reader) into ‘cheres lecteurices’. Other gender neutral pronouns include ‘ol’, ‘ul’, ‘yul’ and...
...actually makes a great deal of sense. For the vast majority of children, picking a skill (plumbing, flower arranging, cooking, waiting on tables, etc.), focusing on it, and getting very...
...also slightly separate. It is mischievous, practical, satirical and defensive… a blend of the sacred and the profane, the grand and the irreverent (pp 45, 54). Sewell is not just...
...Labour tax rise on 'non-doms', far from raising more cash, will cost money instead. The Government is on a steep learning curve that punishing taxes don’t work, says Matthew Lynn....
...saying ‘men aren’t women’ are running around like modern-day Miltons, shouting ‘Free Gary!’ on a loop. Folk who say ‘Well, free speech has consequences’ in a cavalier way whenever an...
...sandal-wearing dictators? More to come on this, I’m sure. Stop Press: Oxfordshire County Council has put out a statement to address concerns and ‘misunderstandings’ about the plans. Read it here....
