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To The Times, London I was heartened to learn that in some parts of the country it is still the teacher who writes pupils’ end-of-term reports. In the Highland region, a third of the available space is given over to a learner’s statement, under which heading my daughter had written: “At home I am responsible …
The proportion of couples who have children out of wedlock is expected to exceed the 50% mark in 2016. Is this good for the children? You can never know what happens in someone else’s relationship, but from the outside it looks like a startling vote of no confidence in any form of long-term commitment. Does …
Andy Street, CEO of John Lewis Partnership, Britain’s most successful retailer,recently told an awards audience that France “is finished. Don’t invest there. Nothing works… it’s sclerotic, hopeless and downbeat.” Whereas London is “a bubbling cauldron of activity and change, where a coffee shop seems to open every week. Owing to planning constraints a Parisian patisserie, …
Baby boomers have so embraced social media that a third of them derive more self-confidence from the number of online “friends” they have than from anything they’ve achieved in the “real” world and over their careers. In a recent poll, 29% of 49 to 68-year-olds rated their number of friends on social media as their …
These postings are done on an Apple I-Pod. For nearly three years I used I-Pod Notes to write down ideas and expand them into posts. I then transferred them onto the blog as I needed them. There were some fifty pages or more. Recently, Apple had a new iOS software update. I downloaded it and …
