Wait, he isn't already? He's the only one of the 72 I've heard of / hear from

Yes, combined with the bleed from commerce world where user = customer = one who chose this product, which doesn't hold in the case of education but it's convenient for lots of ppl to pretend it does

100% this. When assessing any AI/Edtech solution you should check if the pitch implicitly assumes users that want to learn

Is that during covid/Ukraine there was a sense of temporary crisis after which things will improve whereas today it's harder to believe that?

Before the culture wars ruined everything a terf was just a smiling boy, terrapin surfing

The Imprisoner's Dilemma How to deter low level crime

Petty crime is soaring and prison's expensive and full si we should bring back the stocks.

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So don't go and see him because he's a nazi. But also don't go and see him because he's a whiny, tiresome arsehole.

Also that while it's right we celebrate artists we've lost (Amy Winehouse had just died) we should also celebrate those who are still alive and making music.

He talked for ages. Among many other things he said he tried to take away Taylor swifts VMA because he was upset the private jet that took him to the awards didn't have his favourite drink

I saw Kanye play the big chill in 2011 and he was rubbish

I'd love to be proved wrong about the expense and difficulty of a complete transition to clean energy. What's your understanding of how much this costs and how long it takes?

My statement's only flawed if you handwave away the trillions of pounds needed to build out grid scale storage and electrify all transport and heating.

Walk outside, look at how many petrol/diesel vehicles there are Vs electric ones. Just that switch is really really expensive and that's just one of the reasons we'll still be importing oil and gas for years to come.

Intermittentcy of renewables requires fossil fuel back up and before we electrify every vehicle and heat source we need fossil fuels to avoid freezing and starving.

Legal not Commercial Regulate the market for some drugs

I agree, although I think it's scary to unleash the free market on drug use given that the biggest profit centre would be the heaviest users. Better to legalise via a state monopoly.

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If the govt wants a supply side reform that delivers a big boost to tourism they should legalise ecstasy

Legal not Commercial Regulate the market for some drugs

3 million Britons use drugs and apart from a minority with really serious addictions we're not trying to stop them. Meanwhile the state is desperately short of money. There's a better approach to this problem

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He went after her like she was made out of ham

Fuming when the cult centre develops

"Commercialisation's ruining it. 20 years ago you'd never have gone on pilgrimage to that"

Would absolutely love to get a pint with a twelfth century ceric whose beef with Beckett is that he was showboating

"Unfortunately for them, people persisted in enjoying their music" 🎩

That's a really good point. I think it's the pincer of low productivity meaning most wages stagnate apart from the ones raised by law

Little power BI tip: if you've got a measure for say attendance you usually show to 1dp eg 94.5% but want to show 100% instead of 100.0%

In measure tools set formatting to dynamic and put this in the formula bar:

IF(SELECTEDMEASURE()=1,"0%","0.0%")

Incredible to think a part of wedding planning would be sitting down at the registry office to twiddle a dial between "our love will never die"/"I'm all in, not sure about them"/ "two sluts taking each day as it comes"

I really enjoyed it. Turns out we kinda sorta fought a war in Yemen in the 60s - who knew?

Do the fiscal rules factor in demographics? We're struggling to pay for today's old people, but in the imagined future when debt's falling there'll be even more of them relative to the workforce

You can have a play yourself here:
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All 10 of the most improved are special schools.

It's great to see their pupils' getting better grades and a welcome reminder that being outside mainstream education and put on the scrapheap are not the same thing!

Most improved schools in Attainment 8 in 2025

Something we can do in lieu of P8 to recognise progress is look at the most improved A8 between 2024 and 2025.

Massive shout out to table toppers Church Lawton School here who went from 20.4 last year to 39.9.