You seem perpetually angry. Just to balance things, what makes you happy in life? Nice bit of fishing on a lake? Belgian beers? Go on indulge me.

Maybe it's not anger but frustration that certain posters on here have the solution to all the worlds problems.

Come on mate, the exam situation is about as bad as it could be.
I know that we're in difficult and unprecedented times and there are heaps of things that could be done differently / better.
However, this particular issue, once teachers assessments were deemed the best way forward, has been handled appallingly.

The knock on effects with University placements etc, wasn't too difficult to foresee and there should be some leadership and guidance coming from the Education Minister and if he's not up to it, he should have been replaced quickly.

There was a good article in the Times a few days ago, suggesting that Johnson, so keen to surround himself with "yes men", is losing the ability to adapt to the various situations that are currently arising, as nobody is willing or brave enough to put their head above the parapet and question anything.

Loyalty is a fantastic asset for any leader to have but, the need for some strong characters within the ruling party has never been more important.

Johnson is a "good time Charlie", very good at the back slapping and cheering from the sidelines but, he's supposed to be a Leader, not just a Cheerleader.

What is quite odd is that even when something is being handled so badly, some people cant or wont speak up.

If you want the solution to this one.
When it was decided that grades were to be decided by teachers etc, it should have been with the caveat, that those assessments would themselves be "spot checked", which would have ensured more "honest" grading.
As things are, many schools have gone for "best case" grades, which has lead to arbitrary down grading.
In some cases this will be right but, there will be some huge losers in this and at a time that may change someone's future irrevocably .

This isn't .political comment, it's just common bloody sense.

Our "friend" will still come back with his leftie /commie jibes and who knows, you may agree with him but, this is an open forum for debating current issues or, at least it used to be.

Your man, Boris, is on holiday.

Well I just want to see him as a fully formed human and I can't do that until I know if he likes fancy cheeses or metal-detecting. That sort of thing.

How do you know he's not a fully formed human being,unless of course your an expert on these matters, but I'm sure he'll be grateful for your concern, although to be perfectly honest I'm not sure whether he's a fancy cheese eating connoisseur or into metal detecting or not, he may even be erectile dysfunctional, it's not really relevant is it, it's how he sees himself that's important.

I think IR80 is a parody based on the Viz comic strip 'The Male Online'. A lot of its replies don't make sense to what it's replying to. It sees certain words and it triggers a default reply, including some or all of the following words; politics of envy, socialism is dead, Corbyn loves the IRA, why don't you go live in Venezuela.

All sorted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655

All sorted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53810655

Another crisis that could have been foreseen but dogma would indicate were ignored because they know best. They were even sticking to the original plan this morning only to bow to pressure later in the day.
I believe Boris always travel with a walk in fridge for just this situation.

Not sure why you think I'd want to go live in Venezuela, there's a lot of things I'm not happy with in this country, but instead of coming on here grumbling about things and being generally bitter, I just get on with it and think how much worse it could be.

Indeed, but don't dare to have a contrary opinion, anything other than left and you get a warning. When it comes to imbeciles like King and Wren (interesting both are from Wakefield, envious, jealous, hate filled and spiteful). I am sure I will get a ban now, which will say more about the moderators than I could ever express. Opinions are all valid, but unless you love Cringebin and Stammer, think Hezbullah and the IRA have valid cause it seems this isn' the place for us.

Lehiatrot (am sure king street mange will need to look that up)

I don't. But IR80 thinks most of us should.

Maybe you should have looked it up, then you'd have spelt it right.

I spelt it correctly, but keep the unsults (or attempted insults) coming. An they are unsults, because they are as unimportant as you. Each day I wake up and enjoy people's company is another day you wake up sad, alone and lonely.