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Somebody should open a drive-in grocery store so that when I need to nip to the shop I don't have to unstrap the 2yr old and the 4 yr old, get them out of the car, get wet through, try to keep them together in the shop, stop them from grabbing sweets that are at child level, queue up, quell tantrums, strap them back in whilst getting wetter them drive home.
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I heard a story recently about a man who stole ladies underwear and when police investigated they found 6,400 stolen articles of ladies clothing at his home valued at over £100,000. More generally, I would like to know what is going on in the head of people who suffer bizarre compulsive disorders (or whatever the correct term is)like this.
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interesting to read that the Copenhagen Consensus last year didn't have anything climate relatd in its top 10 effective projects to improve the world list. http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/Default.aspx?ID=953
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There is a very good reason that the government would not want to restrict Banker's bonuses and that is the simple fact that they would loose out on the 40% (or more)tax they would collect... discuss.
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As a Global Warming Heretic , I wonder what turning off my TV Standby
is going to achieve, when I note on News 24 tonight the House of
Commons is lit up by flood lights. One rule for us and one for them !
Global Warming is a excuse to tax and control we the common people.
That while China continues to build coal fired power stations ,
Cows continue to burp . Our or should I say their ambitions to
be leaders in cutting Co2 is worthless .Is a con like the South Sea
Bubble. Mark my words I shall skate on the Thames in Ten Years.
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My book maker refused my £25 bet that one could skate on the Thames
in ten years time. There is at least somebody who know the odds.
The sacking of Professor Nutt , is the reason so many Scientists
are afraid to mention the Earth is getting colder. That we will not
all drown if the ice melts ; as my Gin and Tonic experiment show
is expands ,and shrinks when it melts.
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I have said my piece and off to bed with a cup of Cocoa and wind down
from a hectic day listening to Radio4 Which has a on and off time clock.
Which switches off after I fall asleep , and gently wakes me at 0700hrs
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Following today's story of the first £1000 train ticket in the UK, I think we should know how much the equivalent distance in France would cost. Let's assume 1st Class travel and the same number of trains as the UK example.
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When are disabled students going to be treated equally? HEIs are failing to institute the disability discrimination legislation, and the disability equality duty which entails disabled students participating in impact assessments of university policies. The Universities pay lip service to their obligation, but simply don't follow up their policy statements with action. Happy to take the funding involved in 'widening participation' policies set up by the government, at the very same time the idea of properly supporting disabled students to acheive their potential is not apparently very important to many universities, with regard even to basics such as physical access, let alone equal treatment.
No, the all important research exercise carries far more weight than even the most limited support for'non-traditional' students, who are seen as a pain, as being 'resource and time intensive'. This attitude is simply shameful.
I have contacted the NUS, the Times and Guardian Education Editors, all the Education ministers...their response is nil.Yet until the league tables highlight which universities genuinely support 'non traditional' students, and which universities persist in undermining disabled students by failing to implement the legislation, the current situation will persist, with disabled students failing to access higher education, and when they do get to university failing to progress, often as a result of discriminatory practices and the failure to integrate the support services available. Thus disabled people will remain poorer, and less able to challenge entrenched prejudices that remain not very far below the surface.
Disability discrimination is still far too prevalent in higher education.
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A woman is subject to domestic violence every minute of the day. 85% of domestic violence results from men attacking women. A woman is killed every week of the year.
The government claims that it wants to stop domestic violence. But when I tried to raise the profile of domestic violence yesterday, by encouraging the government to support a national sculpture to show the state's abhorrence of this violence... what was Downing Street's response?
'Your petition has been rejected'
Sender: 10 Downing Street
The petition reads:
We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to: 'Create a
public work of art to highlight the right of women not to be
subject to domestic violence.'
Create a public work of art to highlight the right of women not
to be subject to domestic violence. Like Antony Gormley's work
the 'Angel of the North',which has fostered Northern pride,
this could be a reference point to highlight the plight of
women subject to hidden abuse.When women come accross the
statue they will be reminded that there is a way out of their
situation. Currently the average woman experiences 35 attacks
before she contacts the authorities,which reflects the fear,
confusion and shame felt by women experiencing violence at the
hands of a partner. A national group statue cast from women
survivors would highlight the issue, commemorate those over the
centuries who have died because of domestic violence, including
ritual killings, and act as a focus to remind women who
experience domestic violence that they have nothing to be
ashamed of, and that there is a way out. The violence itself is
the shameful act.
The government says one thing, and does another...
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