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From today’s Daily Telegraph: Judging from today’s results, it’s now virtually impossible to fail an A-level. The overall pass rate climbed for the 28th year in a row, with 97.6 per cent of A-levels being graded A* – E. Sceptics used to joke that you only needed to write your name at the top . . . → Read More: What state is the UK education system in? qu . . . → Read More: “Efficient” British banking services With all but one seat now counted, the results of the British elections look like this (ignoring the smaller parties): British election results after 649 seats have been counted With the Liberal Democrats likely to be an important coalition partner in the new government, there is hope that the archaic “first past the post” . . . → Read More: Democracy in action? Paignton is on the south coast of England in Devon. Comment from the original poster on YouTube two days ago: A removal truck had been blocking the road outside our house for 3 hours and the drivers boss had just turned up, when they started the ignition it looked like they were going . . . → Read More: I’m glad they grit the roads here It often seems to us that Britain has changed a lot in the thirty years that we’ve not been living there. In particular, it seems to be the most “Health & Safety” obsessed country in the world. Luckily, the Brits still have a sense of humour, as this blog entry testifies! (Spotted by Ruth, . . . → Read More: The (British) Spirit of Christmas I can’t recall having seen such an idiotic idea for a long time: Internet users could face an annual charge of up to £30 to download music, under plans to be unveiled today that aim to tackle illegal file-sharing. [British] Ministers are backing proposals that would enable millions of broadband users to pay an . . . → Read More: Harebrained scheme Apparently, a couple who has been living for ten years in room 1 of the Travelodge hotel at Grantham, UK, has been forced to move out of their room as the hotel has been closed for refurbishment. I really don’t think I could live in a Travelodge for 10 years. (Posted from the Hotel . . . → Read More: I don’t think I could do that… When I read this in today’s Guardian, my first reaction was “but it’s not the 1st of April yet”. One the one hand data privacy experts in the EU has been fighting tooth and nail over the last years to prevent the USA getting a pile of personal data each time someone flies to . . . → Read More: 1984 has been delayed, not cancelled Jeremy Clarkson, the BBC Top Gear presenter, is regretting mocking the fuss made about the British government losing CDs with millions of sets of personal data on them. He published an article in the Sunday Times which included his bank account details, claiming that concerns about identity theft were exaggerated. Someone promptly transferred £500 . . . → Read More: Better not publish your bank account details The BBC reports: The UK has built up a stockpile of 100 tonnes of plutonium – enough to make 17,000 nuclear bombs, according to a Royal Society report. Well, that should be enough for any conceivable (or inconceivable) purpose, when you consider that just over 6kg of plutonium was used in the bomb dropped . . . → Read More: Should be enough… |
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