ICTChris

Doesn't every school do that? I was reading about the case of Ruth Perry, the headteacher of a primary school in Reading who took her own life after the school was inspected by Ofsted and regarded from 'outstanding' to 'inadequate'. The issue was with the schools safeguarding practice and the inspectors estimated that it would have taken 30 days to rectify the issues found. The single word inspection results (oustanding, good, inadequate etc) have been criticsed, with Labour saying they will get rid of them. Ofsted have undertaken to update their procedures to deal with some concerns raised in the coroners inquest but some teachers unions are campaigning for the abolition of Ofsted. This isn't the first time that Ofsted inspections have been mentioned in relation to the death of a teacher. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd1088x7w5xo - Latest story about the case, with lots of links explaining other details. I know that inspections are very difficult, being a headteacher under inspection must be hard. It's very British that Ruth Perry was worried that the inspection report would cause house prices in her area to fall and have the local community turn against her - house prices not safeguarding of children! You surely have to have a method of assessing schools though.

His son was sent home a couple of days after he reported him missing. He could technically have been charged with a crime but I think the fact that he was a minor and there were questions about what happened, they left it. Jade, who was the main woman interviewed, was one of the women who accused him of rape. The others couldn't be identified, either through choice or because of their age.

I don't think they can give any details on his son for legal reasons. Also, he might have declined to co-operate with the documentary. I don't think the woman who Avis abused when she was pregnant with his child was the mother of the son who reported him missing. His son was 17 when he reported him missing in 2019 and the woman interviewed about the abuse when she was pregnant said she met him in the early 2000s and then developed a relationship over years. As noted by others, he has numerous children. Incidentally, this article says that he was from Newmarket in Suffolk - https://www.suffolknews.co.uk/newmarket/news/rapist-is-jailed-after-faking-his-own-death-in-california-9206543/

GHF as soon as his Green card comes through

I’m not saying the US is some perfect place, more illustrating how the UK has declined. The murder rate is approximately six times more in the US than the UK. The wage and wealth gap between the US and UK used to be far smaller. It began widening significantly about twenty years ago.

A few months ago, this advert got a lot of attention. It’s for staff at a car wash in Texas. An assistant general manager of a car wash paid about the same as an NHS consultant. I mean, I’m sure those salaries might not be typical for working in a car wash in the US but damn.

The Wall Street Journal has an article about the rise of the UK as an offshoring location for American businesses. Basically, incomes have stagnated so much that American firms are looking to utilise what for the UK are high end jobs but come at half the salary of the US. Illustration here I have actually looked into this, if I moved to the USA and did the exact same job I do here I’d be earning around double my salary. The wage and wealth gap between the UK and the US is a big black pill. It also wouldn’t all be taken up with paying for health insurance, as the US has much lower taxes. If the UK was a US state then we would be the poorest, ranking alongside Mississippi.

What do people make of Hoka as a brand? I've heard they are the comfiest trainer, so I have just bought a pair.

My friend found out their wife was having an affair with a work colleague because messages popped up on Christmas Eve when they were watching a movie on wife's iPad. The wife had been doing a new job and hadn't been coping and had been drinking really heavily - she'd fall asleep drunk almost every night, which she did that night as well. They were at her families for Christmas and the wife begged my friend to just put up with it for a day before they sorted it out but basically they split up immediately afterwards. I think that the wife had been looking for a way out of the relationship but couldn't bring herself to just say she needed to leave so she would do things to drive away my friend - drinking heavily, being very difficult and finally, having the affair. I don't think she meant to get caught though.

https://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/mans-only-god-can-judge-me-tattoo-proved-wrong-by-county-court-judge-20160816112398

Nice of the owner to give his dog a turn of his necklace. Every part of the story just gets better. Quote from the owner also, the owner

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/first-xl-bully-owner-prosecuted-32495262 Everyone in this story looks exactly how you think they would.

I think there are reasons why they couldn't give any details on his children and relationships beyond the interview with Jade. If you read back through this thread or reports of his trial you'll see what I mean.

One thing the documentary didn’t really explain, presumably because they couldn’t find out, is where he came from, what his background is. The charity worker they interviewed said that he came to Inverness in his late teens, early 20s because he’d wanted to live in the Highlands. When I was a kid the story everyone had about him was that he came from a rich family, that he lived with them in a big house in Crown etc. - that can’t be the case because he only came to Inverness when he was an adult. The victim interviewed in the documentary said he sent her to live in a caravan on a piece of land he owned. He sold his house at Buncrew for £250k, how did he buy these places in the first place? I mean, where is he from, I don’t think he was Scottish. Did this guy just rock up, play guitar badly and sell seashell earrings until he had enough money to buy land and a house? Odd.

Jordan Transgenderson is the best one. Genuinely the whole thing reads like a parody. You could imagine Stewart Lee reciting them as part of his act.

Scumling Lolbion.

NASUWT say the Scottish government have missed their own deadline in providing guidelines for physically restraining pupils. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd15p1rgxepo Sounds like a bad story all round tbh. Are we going to start training teachers in jiu jitsu, just in case the pupils attack them?

A bit more straightforward to tax someone’s bank account than their good looks.

The UK actually has a relatively high rate of inheritance tax compared to other countries https://files.taxfoundation.org/legacy/docs/TaxFoundation_FF458.pdf

I am biased as I am distantly related to him but Allan Wells has to be up there - a Scotsman being the best sprinter in the world? Has to rank highly. Andy Murray probably shades it with his achievements, over a prolonged period as well. There's a very cool documentary about Wells Olympic preparation When you consider the facilities and money in sport now, watching him train in public parks is crazy.

Oh to be a fly on the wall during Tam Cowan's diversity training.

Someone once threatened to sue me for a post I made on a forum, it was the ICT forum. Moderators removed the post, which suggested that the poster had poisoned the Clyde team in their pre-matchmeal before a game in Inverness.

Not a poll but a focus group quote