A student was disqualified from her GCSE exam after she was accused of making “obscene racial comments” by criticising halal meat.
Abigail Ward, 16, a strict vegetarian, wrote during a Religious Studies exam in June that she found the idea of halal meat “absolutely disgusting”.
The exam board OCR later disqualified Miss Ward from the exam, accusing her of making “obscene racial comments”.
And if Grandpa Death had been marking it, would the same comment applied to kosher have got an A*?
During the second world war, scrap metal was made into tanks and women’s nylons into parachutes.
You don’t make parachutes out of nylon. You might out of silk. And you could cut up the parachutes to make silk stockings, but not really dew them up the other way around.
It is almost absurd that when we face a global heating crisis what is of concern in the UK energy market is the fate of small companies trying to make a buck out of a failed system of energy privatisation that has very largely led to consumer rip off, limited real energy supply transformation, and a system so lacking in co-ordination that it can be claimed that when these companies fail people are left without energy suppliers when glaringly obviously the supply to their properties still exists.
If we are to get serious about tackling global heating the nineteen-eighties obsession with energy market reforms needs to be replaced with energy policy intended to deliver zero net carbon as the only issue of real priority.
And in the process we should also have single, fair, tariffs for all so that the age of rip-off ends forever.
This is what the Green New Deal requires. And we need it now.
One single price for all electricity taken from the network. So, no cheaper electricity when there’s lots of it about. Meaning no load balancing when the sun shines and the wind blows. We can throw out all those smart meters then, the entire plan to deal with intermittentcy.
Or if that’s not what he means, tariffs allowing for different prices at different times, it’s still remarkable, isn’t it? A supposed economist arguing that competition doesn’t increase efficiency over time….
Re Ghislaine:
In adulthood she had no power without Epstein, who held all the purse strings. He had been embroiled financially with her father and it may be that Epstein bought her the fancy $5m townhouse in New York with Robert Maxwell’s own money, squirrelled away in anticipation of his looming bankruptcy.
If true – far fetched, obviously, so emphasis on the if there – then that means all her money belongs to that bankruptcy trustee.
Carrie Symonds will join Boris Johnson at Balmoral and become first PM’s girlfriend to meet Queen
Difficult to recall whether any of our recent milquetoasts actually had girlfriends. But Edwina Currie’s definitely met the Queen.
Economics Is the Honey Badger
Yep, Honey Badger don’t care.
What happens when you fight economics? Economics pushes back. It cares nothing for your visions, speeches, songs, hats, and rallies; indeed, not even the world’s biggest guns and armies can stop the forces of supply and demand.
The 16-year-old Swedish climate change activist, who left Plymouth aboard Malizia II on Wednesday on a two-week voyage to New York, where she will speak at a UN climate change meeting, had vowed not to fly to cut her carbon footprint and set an example.
However, Team Malizia, which operates the 60ft yacht, said two of her crew would be flying to New York to bring the yacht back to Europe.
In addition, the two sailors travelling across the Atlantic with Greta and her father, Svante, an actor, may fly home, a spokeswoman said.
Well, yes, but this is great:
Miss Thunberg’s team had gone to great lengths to ensure that her trip would be seen as zero emission, with electric-powered rigid inflatable boats taken to Plymouth to ferry her to the yacht.
“Taken” eh? And the emissions from that being higher or lower than just using an outboard to get out to the thing?
The caveat is that it is highly likely that the market will adjust quickly to the new system and that sellers, far from footing the bill, will simply price it in — pushing up house prices.
Or rather, it does work this way. The price is the price, how it’s distributed between tax and seller’s receipts is a very secondary issue.
As listeners to the Football Weekly podcast already know, I’m a laugher not a fighter. I would much prefer not to be writing this and to exist in a world where my transition did not require any comment. But since we do not yet live in that world, here I am. All I ask is for respect and kindness – for me and for transgender people in general – at a time when those commodities seem to be in ever‑shorter supply.
You’re a journalist writing about sport. Your gender and or sexuality don’t come into it. What is this “require any comment?”
The Welsh seaside town of Porthcawl is planning to install anti-sex public toilets that would spray occupants with water and sound an alarm.
Violent movement sensors would automatically open the doors and sound high-pitched alarms, with fine water jets soaking the interior. Weight-sensitive floors would ensure only one user could be in a cubicle at a time, to safeguard against “inappropriate sexual activity and vandalism”.
I’m absolutely certain that I recall the claim that cottaging is an essential part of the gay male culture and therefore to oppose it is to be homophobic.
Breach the principle only for the most serious issues and it will, inevitably, move on through the system.
Child abusers should no longer be allowed to escape prosecution under the double jeopardy rule, says the victims’ commissioner.
Dame Vera Baird wants the law to be re-written so that paedophiles who have been acquitted of indecently assaulting children can be brought before the courts again if new evidence emerges.
It follows cases where sports coaches have been charged and acquitted but cannot be retried because the offences did not involve penetrative sex.
Less serious sexual assaults are not included in the list of offences where prosecutors can override double jeopardy – the rule barring the retrial of a defendant for an offence of which they have previously cleared by a court.
Slippery slopes do exist.
Ken Clarke says he is willing to become caretaker Prime Minister to ‘sort Brexit out’
Yes, yes, I know, people want the latest designs which is why every club issues three or four new strips every year. And they’re all copyright too.
Fine.
But when were strips not copyright? How far back does one need to go for them to be free for all?
Subsidiary question, what’s the date for that in American sports teams?
An organisation that will remain nameless sent a press release.
Working more than 48 hours a week shortens your lifespan! See, see, in the international statistics!
They had not adjusted for income levels. Poor people life shorter lives, yes, poor people work longer hours, yes. But if you don’t adjust for income levels then pointing to shorter lives and longer working hours then…..
A British University has closed its Student Union bar because of a dwindling demand for alcohol from its students who increasingly prefer coffee to beer.
Abertay University, located in Dundee, Scotland, said that stocking alcohol at Bar One was no longer viable as the income generated from sales has “dropped drastically” in recent years.
Alcohol sales at the venue, which opened in 2005, have plummeted by two-thirds since 2014, as young people are choosing to spend their money on non-alcoholic alternatives such as coffee.
Might there be religious reasons for this? The religious structure of the population, as with that of race, being very different across the age cohorts.
Tory rebels ‘welcome’ plan to install Jeremy Corbyn as caretaker Prime Minister to stop no deal Brexit
The plan’s dead already as Jo Swinson won’t support it.
Testing my ability to write such guides and some tools to aid in search engine placement. Just part of the market economy, constant experimentation…
A transgender employee of the Guardian — which once called itself the “world’s leading liberal voice” — has resigned, accusing the newspaper in an email to staff of being “an incredibly transphobic organisation”.
In a cutting resignation letter sent last month, the employee said the paper “fundamentally not only stands against my own values but also against what I am”. A second trans staff member resigned weeks later, also citing the “harm” they say the newspaper is doing to trans people.
Following the leak of the email to BuzzFeed News, the trans employee, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said she felt complicit in the newspaper’s “transphobic” reporting by continuing to work there, and revealed the damaging effect the Guardian’s coverage of transgender people has had on her well-being. This included fear of using the women’s toilet at work.
Et tu Custodies?
Relating to how the Festival is killing Edinburgh.
Cancel the festival then.
I’ve got a campaign slogan for you ‘Make Edinburgh Grimsby Again’
Then you’ll all be happy, happy as the residents of Grimsby who do not suffer from such afflictions as vibrant trade and culture.
From Rob H
