Friday, 15 April 2022

England is the only country where the oldest age group has higher proficiency in both literacy and numeracy than the youngest

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A PISA survey report in 2013 found that in almost every country in the developed world younger adults performed better than older people, wi...
Tuesday, 22 March 2022

But I belong to the other English, who don't like the right pigeon-hole used for the wrong papers, or the wrong label on the right box

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How happy everybody was, we were told, and I suppose they were - some English love improvisation and 'do it yourself'. But I belong ...
Monday, 21 March 2022

Winchester, New College, and the Treasury are the three places where they know everything

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Anyway you know it all. You were at the Treasury. Winchester, New College, and the Treasury are the three places where they know everything....
Friday, 11 March 2022

The problem is that while it's true that "Gospel" has lost its original sense and, in fact, now has now meaning at all, writing "good news" in its place is a cure that's worse than the disease

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Most people today think that "Gospel" designates a literary genre, the story of Jesus' life, and that Matthew, Mark, Luke, and...
Thursday, 10 March 2022

Intoxicated: beastly work, but how can I help it?

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[The diary of the Marquess of Dalhousie] Take for example, a few typical entries during the first six months of 1830. 'Dined in Hall at ...

A reservoir for the landed aristocracy, whose sons were inclined to treat college life as a blend of a wine-party and a hunting-box

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[Christ Church] stood in particular for two things, each of them narrow, complacent and outworn. First it was held to be a reservoir for the...
Saturday, 26 February 2022

But you are absolutely correct, Mr Prime Minister

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CHIRAC: Allow me to say that tonight, I am not Prime Minister and you are not the President. We are two candidates who are equal and who are...