Daily Archives: Fri Aug 10 2007

no, really?

Many schools spend too long drilling children to pass national tests instead of giving them a proper education, the government’s exams watchdog has warned. bbc Wonder when all those nice inspectors will be calling on those children’s parents then? Further … Continue reading

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Letters Home

Letters Home is a series of half our programmes on Radio 4 at 9.30am in which immigrants offer their impressions of Britain. I bumped in to one the other week and found it fascinating, and have just read the feature … Continue reading

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Last day of freedom.

I’m going back to work on Monday – working from home, catching up with stuff to begin with, then back in the office three days. We’ll cover Friday when we get there. I’m not sure I’m ready to go back, … Continue reading

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Midnight Caller

I trod on one the other night.

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