Girl to state school teacher: You have marked my work wrong!
State school teacher to girl:
“In a hundred years no one will remember.”
“In a hundred years no one will remember.”
Support for [proposed infrastructure projects] will be forthcoming only if the benefits outweight the disadvantages for Oxfordshire residents.And here’s a case of eats shoots and leaves:
[Oxfordshire is] a fantastic location to live, learn work and play.“Learn work”? As in, “it’s time for you to learn work, my boy”?
[Bob Dylan’s] fifth album caused shockwaves that were to be felt long after it’s 1965 release ...(Emphasis mine.)
[re Neil Young’s Harvest:] it’s huge sales gave him the freedom to do what he wanted ...
Only 7 per cent of children in England attend private school.Given that morality seems to be invoked (according to the headline, taxing private school fees is “fair”), the use of “only” suggests some interesting possible implications. Presumably, if the figure were 30 per cent, the proposal would be deemed to be significantly less acceptable, morally speaking.
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We live in an age when humanity believes in itself. It believes in itself very thoroughly indeed. It is the beginning and the end to itself, its own solution to every problem.
Humanity knows that philosophy was made by it, and religion was made by it, and society was made by it. In fact, reality was made by it.
For (thus runs the reasoning) the agreement of a multiplicity of persons is the criterion we adopt for reality. There is no other criterion for determining reality. There is no other sense in which the word ‘reality’ can be used. Therefore reality is what a collection of people agree to call by this name.
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the extent to which police, public authorities, informers and other members of the public will be encouraged to scrutinise the political and religious views expressed by other adults and children ...Which raises the following question with regard to those who, while having nothing to do with promoting violence, disseminate views which the government dislikes:
[and] whether surveillance and investigatory powers (tailing, bugging, undercover police operations, CHIS, interception warrants, searches of communications data) may be used for the purposes of determining whether a person has engaged in, or been exposed to, extremist activity, in person or over the internet ...