Mr Mist’s Blog

An article on BBC News says that no pupil should fail [news.bbc.co.uk]. That’s what the headline is anyway. If you read it though "teachers" are not actually saying that, they are about to hear it, as a suggestion, at a conference, from one retired teacher.

The idea behind the concept is that, instead of failing, pupils should have a "deferred success". This is possibly some of the most politically correct nonsense that I’ve heard spewed out for a while.

Are we so nannying these days that we cannot tell someone when they haven’t managed to do something properly? How are these folk, who grow up protected from any possibility of failure supposed to cope within their working lives? Or, when they make a mistake a work, will they, instead of being pulled up, be told "that was great bob, but we’ll defer your success on that until next time shall we?".

For god’s sake.

Pathetic terrorist scum attacked the city of London today with a number of bombs on the tube network and one on a London bus shortly afterwards [news.bbc.co.uk].

The explosions on the Underground left 35 dead and two more died in the attack on a double-decker bus.

Flags will be flying at half mast tomorrow.

Someone I know on Livejournal put it another way [www.livejournal.com]

And I think that that is about the best way that anyone can look at such an event.

The city of London will be host for the 2012 Olympic Games [news.bbc.co.uk]. Winning by 54 votes to 50 in the final round of voting, and leading the way in most of the voting rounds, London shrugged off the Paris bid, which was tipped as the favourite.

This is pretty good in my opinion. I doubt that people get more than a few chances to go to an Olympic Games that is in their country, so I will be trying to pick up tickets for some events and stuff so that we can be travelling to London in 7 years time, when hopefully all the stuff will be buillt

Nice one.