Each year we are told that school exam results are better than ever before. But ultimately the tractor stats must collide with reality, as the boss of Britain’s biggest private sector employer has pointed out. This is not to say the pupils don’t work hard – in fact they are often expected to put more work in than they used to forty years ago – but that they are not being properly challenged and stretched by the educational system.
They are scum. Utter scum. Improve the gene pool and run one over today...
Any cyclist making a serious journey would be better off, and inconvenience others less, on a moped. Any cyclist just doing it for the exercise should not be on a public road.
Excellent denunciation of the vile climate change Luddites from Hugo Rifkind in yesterday's Times:
The more I try to be green, the more the showy extremism of the green lobby infuriates me. Not because it’s pious and hypocritical — although it is — but because it’s so wantonly ineffectual. Face it, Dreadhead, it’s time for some pragmatism. People in the developing world aren’t going to spend their lives in dank holes, eating weevils, however much you might like them to. Failure to accept that will only hold us back. You might even call it criminal.
The Irish like to bang on at tedious length about their heroic struggles against British oppression, but you have to wonder whether in reality they’re really cut out to stand on their own two feet, given their contemptible, craven surrender to the yoke of Brussels in the form of the Lisbon Constitution Treaty. Mind you, their feeble acquiescence to the smoking ban suggested they hadn’t really got what it takes.
Autumn again, so the heating in offices goes on full blast, meaning that people have to open windows to keep the temperature down to a reasonable level. Now, I’m no global warming nutter, but what a ludicrous waste of energy! We should revive the old law passed in the 1970s energy crisis that you weren't allowed to use power to heat workplaces above 20ยบ C, and have a team of inspectors going round whacking heavy fines on any employer caught with a higher temperature and the heating on.
And even when the heating’s on, some workers (invariably women) are still running fan heaters under their desks, wasting yet more electricity and selfishly heating up the room even more for everyone else. If I had my way, this would merit instant dismissal. Get the nesh, mardy cows out on the street!
And people need to accept that in the middle of winter they will need to wear jackets and jumpers in the office, just like their parents and grandparents used to.
