Stuart Hayward

But will they have noticed?

Which is why the counter-revolution we're seeing is going to fail and get madder and madder as a result.

The things it's really about (loss of youth, needing to hand over power to the youngsters) are inherent in life, and no political change will fix them.

Check the lingerie sections of department stores.

... and that's just how it is in a universe with entropy.

Easier to be sanguine about that cost when it's not that huge a thing to pay, of course.

I increasingly suspect the Peter Capaldi's Dr Who had it right ("It's not even because it works, because it hardly ever does. I do what I do because it's right!")
Persuading others to follow that ethic is difficult and unreliable. At some level, there is a cost of doing right when others don't...

I need some fine wine good for a communion, You need to be nicer good general applied theology, how does one crowbar in My Favourite Game?

The product of the assignment is never the point, it's always just an excuse to think properly about something.
AI in education can create an impressive shell, but there's nothing living inside.

Old enough to be aware of their ageing and ceding of power to the generation below. Not old enough to have accepted it, let alone embraced it. Young enough to want to fight it and think it is a fight that can be won.

Exaggerated by the demographic bulge that has been working through the country for the last 70 years or so.

I'd say it's a force multiplier, potentially for good or ill. We see its abuse for power, because power is conspicuous.

Religion empowering the good to be strong tends to be much less visible, because good people are like that.

(Harder still- does it constrain bad people from being even worse?)

YouTube video by m Six: The Musical Performing "No Way" on 'This Morning'

Presumably preferable to cementing an alliance with the Spanish and much later thinking better of it...

youtu.be/x3Fu-1Eh1nM?...

Unfortunately, probably less common than it used to be. As everything has networked, it's all homogenised, and the niches for edge-case individuals have become less so.

The general downside of outsourcing/business unit-ing applied to politics.

Getting rid of vertical integration means that everyone can optimise their bit of the story, but hardly anyone is thinking "what's the consequence for the organisation as a whole?"

The election itself was called on 22 May.
Make of that what you will.

One of the things humans process really badly is delays between actions and consequences. The idea that bad stuff now is because of bad decisions a decade ago (let alone four decades ago) just doesn't compute.

A beautiful but sad story.

Cheating will always be an easier way to succeed than doing things properly. So the winners' enclosure is always at risk of containing cheats who have to lie about their cheating.

(I remember many PD sessions where pro cyclists were held up as role models.)

Not just for cyclists.

“For a few men, however, doing the right thing was always more valuable than any other reward. It is that we should take from this story and the thought of how and when we might have to emulate them, and how we can encourage others to do so too.”

#FridayFive for Team BSix (they know who they are)
1. So long, and thanks for all the fish: Neil Hannon
2. For all we know: The Magic Beans
3. Abandon ship: April Showers
4. It's the end of the world as we know it: REM
5. Here's where the story ends: Sundays

How to get into Oxbridge — by the state schools that do it best Use our searchable table to find the 90 schools that won the most places last year, as they reveal their secrets, such as urging pupils to go ‘super-curricular’

www.thetimes.com/article/edc1...

Irony is that anyone good enough at quantitative subjects to be competitive for a competitive uni could explain why this is a bad metric.

... But also, ageing means that you increasingly go where you don't want to go- and the ultimate, terminal journey is coming into view. That's not a nice prospect, but voting can do nothing about it.

A few aspects to that, I reckon. One is that if your voting history is Conservative+Blair (honorary Conservative), 2024 was the first time in 50 years that you didn't get the result you wanted. That's bound to be traumatic. (And does mean that your political memorial is the one all around you)...

One of the things teachers have to do is make ourselves redundant. To say to students, "you don't need me anymore, you can learn the next bits yourselves."
It's a privilege to say it, but gosh, it's a bittersweet one.
I want to know what happens next.

1. Take On Me- A-ha
2. Duel- Propaganda
3. Absolute Beginners- David Bowie
4. All's Well Now- Everything But The Girl
5. Rain on the Roof- Hugh Grant as Felix Buchanan (stretching it, but it's been a long week)
#FridayFive

Didn't that happen when Anonymous Number Ten Sources started briefing about how they were... erm McSweeney was... the one really in charge?

Fundis vs. realos. And a dash of British Exceptionalism.

kinda weird how we all just expected a coyote to know rocket science and then laughed at him when he failed

What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?

Although every physicist knows about Newton's First Law, most of us don't really believe it and forget to apply it unless we make a conscious effort.

If this is your mental map of the world, reality is bound to feel like a comedown.
(See also those whose fiscal map was formed in the Lawson boom.)

Sorry, couldn't help it!!
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Of all the poignant features of that Daniel Hannan Day essay, the wish for an uncontroversial National Independence Day celebration with fireworks is possibly the saddest.