John Oxley has good news for Liberal England readers: the Conservatives are heading for electoral evisceration.
"The marks of restraint are clear on the child’s arm, the bruises that outline a ‘hold’. In normal, everyday language, this means that a member of the teaching staff in a school will have laid their hands on a child who they felt needed to be restrained. In some, but not all cases, that can leave visible injuries. In most cases the memory will stay with them, a psychological mark that will never fade away." Katharine Quarmby fears corporal punishment is returning to classrooms in the guise of restraint and seclusion.
"Take the phrase ‘ghost children’, for example. It seems to have been coined by Robert Halfon, MP in response to Centre for Social Justice figures on pupil absence. Now, it has a life of its own spooking the public and politicians alike." Gemma Moss asks if the concept warrants the attention it is getting.
James Auton defends Britpop against critics who are too cool for school.
"But there, in a Northamptonshire cowfield ("Beware of the bull") that is forever England, reality seemed an awfully long way away. The field sloped down to a dark, dank corner where, secreted by an overgrown thicket, quite hidden from the world, real or otherwise, sat a quiet and algae green pond. We scrambled over some barbed wire and through a tangle of willow and found, with a deep sense of satisfaction, the source of our river." Eric Wark discovers the source of the Great Ouse, which flows into The Wash below King's Lynn.
7 comments:
The 'defence of Britpop' links to the piece about housing policy. Or the argument is too subtle for me.
Try it now.
Tories will do better than expected because their voters will not run Sunak over. Lib Dems and Labour will only win where they work to win.
The Conservative leadership election campaign was strange. Rishi Sunak lost it first time to a lunatic.
In the Leicester City Council elections, Tories (from zero) won 17 seats.
Hello anonymous, I have plenty to say about Britpop, camping next to the boo radleys at Glastonbury, seeing Suede play their last gig with Bernard Butler, watching Gene up close in Portsmouth's Wedgewood Rooms, meeting Oasis in the Marquee the night before Shakermaker went into the top 20. I thought I'd keep that out of my housing blog lest my arguments became too diffuse.
Matt, have you explored the possibility of everyone living in a very big house in the country?
Oh, is this the way they say the future's meant to feel?
Or just twenty thousand people standing in a field?
I think that combines Britpop and housing in a single sentiment.
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