Month: August 2020

This Blog will be closed for a while for a holiday break and to allow me more time to work on a fiction project. Stay safe.

This is yet another disaster  for a fumbling government which collectively believes itself to be rather good. The plain fact is that by setting up an algorithm based upon  past performance of schools as institutions and applying the statistical outcome to individual students is crude and  grossly unfair. Not only that, it is mathematically flawed.  […]

This government has a lot of problems piling up. There are pressing issues with the economy, Brexit and above all, still, Covid. There is now a mounting anxiety at worst of a second wave and at best a series of regional, local and sectional lock downs. There are high hopes for a vaccine and reports […]

Suddenly the back to normal by Christmas theme has vanished. While yet far from a wave, there is certainly a Covid surge in parts of Europe and in England, mainly in the North. Boris, minus some of his bounce, cancels at little more than a moment’s notice, most of the extra restrictions which were to […]