Interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper, titled ‘Heads demand fines for false complaints by parents’. It’s about the annual conference of head teachers in Britain, where they’re fed up with some parents who have what they call a ‘lottery mentality’ – they chance their luck that they’ll be awarded compensation for accusations they’ve dreamed up. […]
Author Jude Collins
The truth? Do tell…
Interesting article in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper, titled ‘Heads demand fines for false complaints by parents’. It’s about the annual conference of head teachers in Britain, where they’re fed up with some parents who have what they call a ‘lottery mentality’ – they chance their luck that they’ll be awarded compensation for accusations they’ve dreamed up. […]
Bums on benches
It’s a wonder some of our politicians and a fair number of public commentators have any hands left, they’ve been wringing them so hard in recent days. The latest occasion for exasperation has been Sinn Fein’s commitment to abstentionism. The politicians down Fermanagh/South Tyrone way insist that it’s important to oust Michelle Gildernew because she […]
Bums on benches
It’s a wonder some of our politicians and a fair number of public commentators have any hands left, they’ve been wringing them so hard in recent days. The latest occasion for exasperation has been Sinn Fein’s commitment to abstentionism. The politicians down Fermanagh/South Tyrone way insist that it’s important to oust Michelle Gildernew because she […]
Brown study
If I had a kennel, it would be filled with underdogs. I’m not sure why, but when I see power being wielded, I find myself tugged to the side of the person on the receiving end. So while I know it’s none of my business who gets elected in Britain, I can’t help but feel […]
Brown study
If I had a kennel, it would be filled with underdogs. I’m not sure why, but when I see power being wielded, I find myself tugged to the side of the person on the receiving end. So while I know it’s none of my business who gets elected in Britain, I can’t help but feel […]
Political parties and window-dressing
I remember 1992. I was in the company of a senior SDLP politician and, as is the way of SDLP politicians, he was ignoring me because there was someone more important in the room. It was a few days before polling day for the Westminster elections and the senior SDLP man was explaining to the […]
Political parties and window-dressing
I remember 1992. I was in the company of a senior SDLP politician and, as is the way of SDLP politicians, he was ignoring me because there was someone more important in the room. It was a few days before polling day for the Westminster elections and the senior SDLP man was explaining to the […]
You mean they don’t head the ball?
Jerome Quinn is mad as hell with the BBC and he’s not taking any more. Well actually, he’s taking a case against them, because he says they discriminated against him on the grounds that he came from a ‘Catholic and irish background’. It’s a tangled tale. Jerome (like myself an Omagh man) claims the BBC, […]
You mean they don’t head the ball?
Jerome Quinn is mad as hell with the BBC and he’s not taking any more. Well actually, he’s taking a case against them, because he says they discriminated against him on the grounds that he came from a ‘Catholic and irish background’. It’s a tangled tale. Jerome (like myself an Omagh man) claims the BBC, […]