I would buy extremely high end if my wife would allow. But she won’t so as sleep badly.

I know, it ridiculous. More important than car, dishwasher, laundry, maybe even wedding planner. Mark you: getting one high quality vacuum cleaner plus of of the hand Dysons is also important.

I somehow owned two different editions of the multi-volume Children’s Encyclopedia when I was a kid and devoured them both several times. I’m sure this is just as good.

The world is full of mysteries we can never hope to solve.

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social I’m sure you’ve heard this from hundreds of people but Rory Stewart is apparently loving reading The Unaccountability Machine and Lying for Money simultaneously but can’t quite get your name right.

Yes. Also there’s a LOT of supplementation/compensation by more affluent parents esp in less affluent districts.

At minimum increased numbers of extremely credible death threats that he knows he and his family will receive for the coming year or so. Not as bad as all those Republicans who spoke at the Democratic convention, for sure.

Maybe they could have some jokes in it this time around?

The thing is— for most working class kids going to a grammar school did help them. It’s just that secondary mods harmed their siblings/neighbours more. It’s seems very hard for people to think about systems.

Grammar schools weren't hated as such. Just: nobody wanted their kid in a secondary modern. Which was always a risk. (I attended a successful grammar school, then a blighted comprehensive. The latter was, I suspect, better. Many grammar schools coasted, because they could. Still do I suspect).