So often as I do come across stories of note on the BBC website - such as this one: The Beauty of Maths - it is not often that these stories strike a chord particularly.
But this one does. It highlights the problem of a lack of teachers of Mathematics in secondary schools, and how such [...]
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The Beauty of Maths
In A Flap
Why did these chickens cross the road?
Stripping Differences
Alistair Devine, the nude photographer of his own project Stripped Naked, is using his chosen medium and taboo subject matter to highlight the sectarian differences between Glasgow Celtic and Glasgow Rangers football clubs. In an article on BBC News, is asking for hundreds of willing volunteers to pose naked to show Celtic and Rangers fans [...]
Big Dave’s Magic Wand
If we were looking for a prophet of our times, we really need not look any further than David Cameron. I had underestimated his delightful pearls of wisdom, but if you think about what he says for long enough, perhaps they will start to make sense eventually.
Taken from the BBC News website, David Cameron prophesies [...]
Unruly
As a child from a so-called "broken family", I would have been expected to have been an unruly and rebellious child. Perhaps what stopped me was my conscience.
And then you get reports like this article from the BBC, revealing that three thousand crimes were committed by those under ten years of age. Because they are [...]
Grave For Dave
I don’t like to get too political, unless either I feel strongly about something, or something is so ridiculous it is worth mentioning. This is one such occasion.
David Cameron hasn’t had a good week. When he isn’t making an arse out of himself, someone else seems to be doing it for him. After all the [...]
Happy Birthday
Today is the 15th birthday of the “World Wide Web”. (It is also the birthday of the as yet unnamed niece of Shell - congratulations!) I noticed an article on the BBC News website, where a handful of panellists gave their opinions on the bad things of the Internet as it is today.
My concerns are [...]
Sacrifice In The Name Of Art
It has been a peculiar day - not least because of the freak events of Chester-le-Street, County Durham. Around thirty people were swept up inside an inflatable structure and were hauled across a park with as many as five hundred onlookers. Two died, and thirteen are seriously injured:
The sculpture - called Dreamspace - is thought [...]
Young, Gifted And Hopeful
I have just read in the BBC News that the government wants a register of the top 5% pupils in schools who are considered to be gifted and talented. This is so that schools identify their most able students and provide more personalised and focussed programmes for them, and give them more to do outside [...]
Perhaps Only In America
While I should have been doing homework, I noticed this article from BBC News. Funny but serious at the same time… obviously!