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On Brexit, a relative of mine who lives in Coventry voted Leave and genuinely thought it meant we would be out by the end of this year. Also thought we could just walk away and every trade link would carry on as before but without free movement and without EU laws. I think many probably thought...

The guy is a snake oil salesman who has managed to convince lots of middle class white people that they are not part of or direct beneficiaries of "the Establishment". He comes from money and has lived amongst these elites all his life, including being educated at a private military school. He...

People who live on Facebook. You can tell who they are because they can't understand anyone who, like me, are not on it and never want to be. They also talk about people online as if they are real when they are spectres, profiles, virtual people. I have never felt I was missing anything. I...

Showing your ignorance there, sorry. I teach Religious Education/Studies, Geography and sometimes History. We cover issues like this far more in Religious Studies. This very week I will be doing lessons on Should we help the poor? With year 9 in RE and Ethics, which the subject is now called in...

I'm a teacher and if they start any of that on me I smile, shrug and say "If you're talking to me you're going to have to use English not gibberish." It usually provokes an interesting discussion on the meaning of gibberish and if they have a big enough attention span the importance of slang...

On the theme of Halloween, I get why kids might like it but adults dressing up with their kids and showing off photos at work of themselves at some weirdo event and excitedly discussing their costume in great detail... and that's 40 year old blokes . Wtf?

I consider it provocation at teatime when some of us drivers are a long way from home and haven't eaten for hours. :rage:

Congratulations to the young man who today managed to combine several things that annoy me in one go. He was wearing checked shorts with a baggy coat over them plus trainers and mismatch coloured socks. He started to cross at the pedestrian lights AFTER the 'red man' had appeared and the amber...

Undershirts must be the same colour as the main colour of the shirt sleeve; Read more at http://www.thefa.com/football-rules-governance/laws/football-11-11/law-4---the-players-equipment#OYiQv2sDLv3YEc8O.99 Footballers being allowed to flout the laws of the game by wearing undershirts in another...

My concern is not who was right but what's the plan? I fear that we will have around 5 years arguing the toss about BREXIT and we will likely be no better off at the end of it all. That thought is the main reason I feared a LEAVE vote. Not because we will necessarily be worse off but because...

... And those that wear coats and hats with shorts ...

Men, still wearing shorts in October, especially the fat b@£/@rds Lazy, pre-diabetic overheating or overgrown schoolboys?

I can just about see how it is possible, though very stupid and wrong, to speak on a static phone next to you whilst driving. I personally could not and would not do it. But I can't see for the life of me how people can be texting or on social media etc whilst driving. WTF?

I wonder if these parents will be desperate to get their kids into the new grammar schools and then happily fall into line with their (expensive) uniform policies. I can see them now with, "Jordan is starting at the new grammar in September so we have started saving for the uniform." Bragging...

The practice of researching long lost relatives, who died before you were born, and posting warm tributes to them whilst ignoring people in your family who are alive and, perhaps, could do with your attention!

If you were running late for something you could just leg it and get there in half the time. Now, after a painful 5 yards, it's realising that you need to find an excuse for arriving late.

Schoolboys take some beating, genuine story with names changed ... My classroom is on the ground floor near a staircase to one upper floor.13 year old boy approaches and asks me have I seen Mr Murray? I say no have you tried the classrooms upstairs? He replies, "Where's that?" Me and his mate...

It may be very admirable to have principles, of course, but if you lead a party and insist that everyone else has precisely the same principles then you either need a set of clones or to hand the job over to a real politician not a protester, like yourself. Corbyn should go back to the purity of...

Also, because the content is perceived as harder, the teaching of it is dependent on so many other factors. In my school maths and science teachers have much smaller classes, much more support from TAs, bigger budgets, more lessons to deliver in, groups that have been set so they can pitch...

The reaction would be the same as in any situation in which people were doing effectively the same job.