[Tubby Isaacs]

Education's an odd one. Going by coverage in the media, what people want is good schools and nice universities for their kids, and when it comes to the curriculum, 'not this'.

Vocational courses, apprenticeships, academic rigour, compulsory sport for everyone, must be competitive, not inclusive, traditional material, relevant to the modern world, transferable skills, fronted fucking adverbials, phonics, 3 Rs, SEN for my kids because not all learning issues are obvious, that kid on the other hand is just bone idle and thick.

Indeed. Though looking on the bright side, have we got past "mixed school for my son, single sex for my daughter"?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Aditya Chakraborty has come out with "Bad Starmer, bond markets are in charge", I see.

What do these people actually want? Increasingly there's a strand of comment and left think tankery that seems to be about getting tropes in rather than solving problems.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage
George Monbiot

Certainly the attack on knowledge is part of the reaction to net zero. But are most European Governments struggling with the transition because they've had seeds of doubt sown by their equivalents of Tufton Street? Surely the big political problem is the cost.

George, as his wont nowadays, shows up with a soundbite BTL that renewables are cheaper. This is misleading when you take back up, grid connections etc into account, as various people point out.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -173082282

[Tubby Isaacs]

Simon Jenkins blames the Government for homelessness. Among other factors, he picks out the Government's planning reforms, which will apparently only lead to executive homes in rural areas.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... bour-party