It is a morning when there could be much to say.<\/p>\n
Keir Starmer\u2019s government is in a mess.<\/p>\n
His reshuffle was forced upon him, and the absence of new faces makes it clear just how dire the state of the Labour Party and its thinking is.<\/p>\n
Why Starmer should believe that moving people from posts just 14 months after they were appointed \u2014 meaning that they have only just begun to come to terms with the requirements of the job \u2014 helps his fortunes is hard to tell.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Farage and his party are talking utter drivel, spouting forth nonsense in the style that they have learned from Donald Trump, and hoping things will go as well for them as they have for him, just as most Americans are waking up to the reality of his authoritarian regime.<\/p>\n
And Tory leader Kemi Badenoch is claiming to have been a child prodigy, which she clearly was not when she had two Bs and a D at A-level, but everyone has ceased to care about anything she does.<\/p>\n
Deserving a mention, though, is the fact that Jeremy Corbyn has been doing something useful with his inquiry into the UK\u2019s participation in genocide in Israel.<\/p>\n
And Zack Polanski provided the one message of hope for the week.<\/p>\n
Noting all that, yesterday turned into a long and quite tiring day out. Much as I enjoy a day talking about accounting, how to communicate, and how it might be that, if only we could lift human engagement with that issue from the realms of the technical to the realms of interpretation, there is a continuing role for my profession of 40-odd years, what I most feel like having today is some time off: the opportunity to sit and read, have a coffee, continue the conversation that I\u2019ve had with Jacqueline for decades now, and watch the world go by.<\/p>\n
I need to go to Cambridge to pick up my now-repaired computer. What I must then do is remember to keep it apart from coffee thereafter, because that was apparently to blame. That, though, makes me wonder how it is that Apple can make expensive items of equipment that are not designed to coexist with those things that are likely to be on every desk ever known.<\/p>\n
So, if you don\u2019t mind, I am going to \u2018chill\u2019 for a while, because one of the themes of yesterday\u2019s discussion was that, like it or not, older teachers do need to understand the language, means of communication, and nuances of those younger people who are otherwise their students, and chilling might help me do that.<\/p>\n
Have a good day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"