If that was true then keeping them all imprisoned would make sense, but what evidence do you have that they are all "ticking time bombs that can't be rehabilitated"?

If people on a poker site are interested in a notable poker player's views at all:-

What aspect is propaganda? That there is a chance that people jailed for planning terrorist attacks may commit terrorist attacks once freed?

Blaming this all on Labour, implying you were opposed to releasing these ****s mid-sentence when you'd never mentioned it before last Friday, using it as a campaigning tool when the chances of being killed by one of these ****s is very, very low, blaming it on austerity, blaming it on UK foreign policy etc.

This is very sad

Should the worst happen, I hope we can get a follow up vid from C4 in a decade with however many of these imbeciles have managed to survive.

As a society you need to encourage more Muslim reformers to speak out. As a society you must have a civil honest dialogue.

Pisa international education results are out:

Scotland






A couple of years ago the education minister admitted the results were disappointing and that improvement was needed. This time he's gone for full on bullshit

Is there an easy crib notes for this story?? The internet isn't helping much

With regards to what the Pisa tests are? They're international comparisons that come out every 2 years. In Scotland it was clear education results were slipping badly so the SNP govt removed most of the data used in education at a national level meaning that progress, or to be more precise, lack of progress and dropping of standards, couldn't be measured with previous years. Pisa tests are still an area where we have data though. Below is a report today on the UK wide results.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-50563833

https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-for-him-right

If it's a direct comparison betwen men corbyn is a better man than johnson. But it's not about the individual people involved. Corbyn is meaningless, it's the policies that matter and they are far far better for the country than the tory policies.

Very much so.

Nice to see the idea that politics is about policies not personal attacks making a tiny step forward. We have to stick with it for the long game though and try to keep people talking politics making it about policies far more of the time - it's the only ground where we have an advantage.

What do people put the improvement in reading down to when we are ranked the same for everything else?

Personally, much as I think he's something of a dilettante generally, I have say it looks like Gove's intervention to force teachers to use synthetic phonics rather than teaching based on their personal theories was the right move.

^ Phonics may improve the speed of learning basic reading but it kills long term reading for pleasure (perhaps this is the point). It is a major negative overall. Compulsory national phonics tests for children aged 6 and 7, they shouldn't even be formally learning anything at this age. Most people with a thinking mind and children around this age will say the same I expect.

These are some of the 'nonsense/pseudo words', this is the technical term, children are expected to "learn":

Stroft
Terg
Blurst
Voo
Steck
Hild
Quemp
Geck

Not only are words removed from their contexts, which is what gives words meaning, entirely new words which have no possible context at all are invented. They are then tested on this horse manure which is used to judge the quality of what is being delivered.

I'm going to guess that the short answer is: Harry Potter

I think the idea is that children don't "learn" those specific words (which would be different every time anyway), they learn the principles by which we as British adults know exactly how to pronounce the above. However, I don't agree with the testing method, it seems designed to test that a particular teaching method is being used rather than to test the level of reading - if that teaching method genuinely is the best then it should naturally get the best results on a test with real words too.

On the subject of whether kids should learn to read at that age or not, I tend to agree that learning later is fine or better, but once they are learning then "here are the letters and the sounds that combinations thereof make" seems easier and also more pleasurable than "memorise 2000 words by sight". However if the second method is genuinely better then presumably that should be mandated instead. In no other professions would we allow something of such importance to be down to the personal style of the professional you happen to get assigned.

https://www.newstatesman.com/politic...our-government
Some small encouraging signs The lib dems being so awful on the remain side has been a surprising bonus.

Meh, that factor hasn't changed over the last few years so can't explain an improvement.

Ok now I have to give the long answer:

Huge impact on children learning to read is wanting to read
Huge impact on children wanting to read is when very young seeing their older siblings and parents enjoying reading
Harry Potter greatly increased reading among their older siblings and parents

ergo 'arry potter done it.

I'd be fine with a Labour minority government as the LDs would never support Corbyn as PM so we might actually get someone decent in charge who can bin off all the dumb communist stuff (and McDonnell, Abbott, et al.).

The DUP are terrible but that scenario plays out better if they are needed. Labour would play a game of chicken with the Lib Dems re. Racist Grandpa and the Libs might play ball to get a second referendum. The DUP would NEVER countenance either Racist Grandpa *or* McDonnell so Labour would have to put up someone kinda sane (if only Tom Watson were running - he'd be the obvious choice, as is Labour will probably negotiate for someone terrible enough).

Q. Do Tories accept Lib Dem/DUP support in return for a confirmatory referendum?

No. Such a tight scenario would still leave the Tories in a better spot than pre-election, and they can probably get Boris' deal through on a handful of PLP votes.