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And I’m pretty sure it’s already taken place- otherwise he wouldn’t be posting about it

@JustSayingAsIs @kevlondon4 As a military wife, I can guarantee you that the vast majority of spouses live with their other half. Some serving spouses do weekend commute but not the majority.

@MLoopyP @kevlondon4 They don’t HAVE to follow them. I know they like to but nobody is forcing them to

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@Oliver_S_Curry @Rituraj062000 @naomicfisher How about the UK follows Japan, USA, Canada and Finland and stops giving national exams for 16yr olds.

@Oliver_S_Curry @Rituraj062000 @naomicfisher And yet universities don’t have an issue with that 😉

This time of year, we put our 16-year-olds through a coming-of-age ritual. We make them sit in rows and write down things they have spent the last two years trying to memorise. We pit them against the clock, and prevent them from talking to each other. We tell them that this is the most important thing that they will ever do and their future life depends on it. We don’t just do this once. For most of them, we make them sit in rows and write things down between twenty and thirty separate times in the space of about six weeks. Maths, English, History, French, Biology….Again and again, they have to keep at it. Each time, we tell them how important it is and they better not have an off-day or be ill. Then we take their papers and we rank them. For some, the result will be accolades and glory. For others, failure and retakes. We know for sure that this will always be true, because these rituals that we call exams are designed to rank them. A third will always fail. There would be no top grades if we didn’t also have the bottom. It isn’t possible for them all to pass. And yet, every year, we talk as if this was not true. We pretend that it would be possible for them all to succeed, if only they and their teachers worked harder. Politicians talk about raising standards and accountability. We pretend that the problem is them not working hard enough, not an exam system designed so that hundreds of thousands fail. We blame them, not the exams. For the truth is that we have a coming-of-age ritual for our teenagers which involves a third of them being told they haven’t met the grade, that they are not good enough. We launch them into adult life telling them that they will carry the stigma of not understanding quadratic equations for ever. We put them all through intense stress, and then when some of them cave in we say they have anxiety and send them to see a therapist. And then we’re surprised when many of them say they just can’t carry on, that they don’t see the point. They don’t see potential in the future for themselves. We need to take a step back and ask ourselves why we do this to our teenagers. For the problem isn’t our young people. It’s not their fault that a third of them fail and many are chronically stressed. The problem is what we make them do. We’ve designed a coming-of-age system with a very high cost in human misery. Every year a new crop of teens will come of age, and despite their distress we just push them harder. We need to ask ourselves whether this is really the best we can do for our teenagers. We urgently need to think again.

@benonwine Just do the stuff that has to be done and leave the rest until it’s cooler. Put on a wet tshirt and stand in front of a fan

Does ANYONE have any genuinely good tips for surviving this absolutely brutal heatwave? ☀️🔥🥵

@NotFarLeftAtAll I hate the heat (anything over 15 and I don’t feel good) but this is hilarious!! The man’s a joke! 😂

Zack Polanski issues STARK warning that the UK is suffering from catastrophic Global Warming and today being above 30°C could spell the end

@Oliver_S_Curry @Rituraj062000 @naomicfisher Practical gardening, practical cooking, sports, language speaking, or subjects which only need coursework or at least a high % of coursework. In the late mid-late 90’s, coursework was a large part of our final exams.

@Rituraj062000 @MLoopyP @naomicfisher Exam results provide a signal of how good you are at maths/English or whatever, for employers and higher education. (They are designed to be 'exclusionary', not everyone is equally good at everything.) What would you replace them with?

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The government is adding folic acid to all UK flour by law this December. They call it a public health win. What they are not telling you is that folic acid is not folate. Folic acid is the synthetic oxidised form of vitamin B9. To become usable, the body has to convert it using an enzyme called DHFR into 5-methyltetrahydrofolate, the active form your cells can actually work with. A significant portion of the population carries variants of the MTHFR gene that impair this conversion. Enzyme activity can drop by up to 70 percent. Unmetabolised folic acid accumulates in the blood instead. I carry an MTHFR variant. Most people who do have no idea. They eat their fortified bread and assume they are getting folate. They are not. They are accumulating a synthetic compound their body cannot process efficiently. No screening. No individual consideration. No acknowledgement that the conversion pathway exists. Just mandatory fortification for every single person in the country. Real folate is found in food. Liver is the most concentrated source and it delivers folate already in the active 5-MTHF form. No conversion needed. No gene variant problem. They are adding a synthetic vitamin to a food that drives metabolic dysfunction and calling it progress. I don’t eat bread anymore but if you still eat bread, choose 100% wholemeal, rye, or ancient grain varieties like spelt or einkorn. These are exempt from the law. White and standard brown bread are not. Do you know if you carry an MTHFR variant?

@JustSayingAsIs @kevlondon4 Consider the fact that many military wives/husbands also have to give up a job/career to follow their husbands/wives around the world. Saving up or being able to afford a mortgage on one low wage is often not conducive to military life.

@kevlondon4 No. They’re paid well enough and could afford to buy their own place when they leave.

@TheMeldrew @Shrink_at_Large Perhaps he hasn’t read through the 74+ pages of forms and evidence I sent to the DWP when applying for my son 🤔

@Shrink_at_Large Heard Jenrick on the radio yesterday discussing disability benefits, he claimed you can get them with a quick appt with your GP,a quick letter or email or a 10min call with DWP and DWP knows there is massive fraud, lies lies lies, is it any wonder disability hate is increasing

Amazing how many people suddenly “know loads of people” faking mental illness for benefits. Research suggests these stories are socially contagious. Also if someone was fraudulently claiming benefits, they probably wouldn’t be telling everyone down the pub. PIP fraud is 0.2%.

@JeremyVineOn5 @theJeremyVine This show needs reporting to OFCOM (not that they give a crap either). I would say the content of this show could potentially cause disabled people (including under 18’s) serious worry through frightening them! How disgraceful to put out such content. 😔

"I'm profoundly disabled, under palliative care, my husband is my carer, and we have struggled." "I know people who get paid the same as me, and they have nothing wrong with them." 📞 Kirsty says the benefits system is too easy to game. @theJeremyVine | #JeremyVine

@JeremyVineOn5 @theJeremyVine Sounds like ‘Kirsty’ might not be being totally truthful. PIP is extremely difficult to get & you do not have to be profoundly physically disabled to get it. She being disabled herself seems very odd that she would berate other disabled people who may for whatever reason need PIP

@Shrink_at_Large Wouldnt surprise me at all if the ‘callers’ are all set up by the show 😉

@Oliver_S_Curry @naomicfisher I realise that and my reply was saying the exam system could be made easier if the curriculum was better designed. If it included the subjects I mentioned (the life skills ones), then there would naturally be fewer formal exams as there are currently.

@MLoopyP @naomicfisher Ok, but the question was 'should they do exams'?

@LeeMcClymont @Oliver_S_Curry @naomicfisher So everybody does the functional exams, so everyone has a basic level of English & maths without all of the extra stuff. But if able, they can also study further maths or English literature by choice - not obligatory & as extra choices. Just like they would choose geography.

@MLoopyP @Oliver_S_Curry @naomicfisher So just generally dumb down the population? How do they know what they are going to do for A l levels two years earlier? There would be a much bigger jump from GCSE.

One thing has been proven. The main objective of this entire operation, was to obtain the enriched uranium. Meaning that Obama has always been the target, as I have been telling everyone since day one. This is about cleaning up Obama’s mess and eliminating rogue threats around the globe. This is about uprooting all global Deep State assets, securing the smoking gun evidence on the Obama administration, and showing the world how close we were to destruction. Iran has always been about exposing Obama and his administration. When we talk about “Deep State crimes”, Iran is arguably the biggest one. Obama and Clinton intentionally tried to give weapons of mass destruction to our enemies, in wartime, aka, literal treason. That’s what all of this has been about. The entire point of this conflict is to make the world safer, by PERMANENTLY taking down Obama and the Deep State, and the nuclear fingerprint from the enriched uranium is the golden ticket that will confirm their crimes (Uranium One). It’s all leading up to the grand finale. TREASON!

@Oliver_S_Curry @naomicfisher Can students do basic calculations & number work? Can the student read to an adult level & write an email etc. So much time is wasted studying stuff they don’t need for every day functioning. Schools should teach tech skills, gardening, finance, cooking, interpersonal skills etc

@Oliver_S_Curry @naomicfisher For many, Shakespeare/Dicken’s etc are so far removed from modern literature that it’s like learning a foreign language, which many find really difficult.There are so many beautiful contemporary books;why trudge through Shakespeare etc if you want to work at M&S or be a gardener