Join the club, our communities have never recovered from it, but the lords made plenty of money
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https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/24367655.sqa-replaced-qualifications-scotland-2025/
The new bill proposes establishing the office of His Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Education in Scotland, which would take over the regulatory and inspection powers from Education Scotland.
The Chief Inspector would be named by royal appointment and “not subject to the direction or control of any member of the Scottish Government.”
That sounds like a step in the wrong direction...
When asked how the two bodies will differ, a Scottish Government spokesperson said that teachers and students will be able to hold Qualifications Scotland more accountable than they could the SQA, through the establishment of dedicated committees for students and teachers.
“[The bill] ensures the Board of Management has an increased number of members with relevant teaching experience.
“It also provides a duty for Qualifications Scotland to co-create two specific “charters” to set out what learners and teachers should expect from Qualifications Scotland to ensure its processes are fair and transparent and that the organisation can be held to account by those it serves.
“Importantly, the Bill creates an enhanced governance model for the separation of the awarding and accreditation functions, ensuring decisions on these are taken independently of one another.”
That sounds like a step in the right direction...
As human beings, our interests, philosophies, politics, etc, yes.
As workers in a job, not so much. The analogy works in that scenario. We all conform, to varying degrees, to the groups that we join. Especially when that group is your full time employ, where you spend most of your time and gain most of your money.
There's a HBO show called The Wire that is amazing, and I would recommend to anyone to watch, but particularly to yourself because "Simon has said that despite its framing as a crime drama, the show is "really about the American city, and about how we live together. It's about how institutions have an effect on individuals. Whether one is a cop, a longshoreman, a drug dealer, a politician, a judge or a lawyer, all are ultimately compromised and must contend with whatever institution to which they are committed."[5]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wire
Trailer: https://youtu.be/1S5khOZ1wBs
Warning: it is slow paced, it's more like reading a book on your screen than watching a traditional TV show, but it's worth it
I heard it was a special military operation, only meant to last 3 days.
Trump's only on board because he thought it was Operation Jailbait
This article is comedy gold! I particularly enjoyed the list of straight pride events in the past, such big successes!
The best bit of your nonsense is where you say composting isn't composting
I'm not maintaining most of my shit, half-assed maintaining some, and meticulously maintaining some (veg patch).
The meticulous part doesn't do well unless the unmaintained part is left to do its thing. When people interfere it suffers. That's how nature and biodiversity work. Leave it to do its thing and generally it works out itself. Every now and then you may need to intervene if something is becoming problematic and choking out everything else, but generally nature knows what it's doing.
The thing that makes not maintaining your shit some great intentional effort, is the constant battle against other humans who wish to cut everything down and maintain order. If you're a sole owner you can tell them to fuck off, but if members of your family disagree or it's a communal space, that may be far more difficult.
Funny you chose those plants in particular though, because dandelions and various types of thistle are both recommended by the Royal Horticultural Society as being of particular aid to pollinator insects.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/science/research/plants-for-pollinators
5 MPs don't have the power to implement much initiatives and ideas. Look at the Greens, Lib Dems, SNP, Plaid Cymru, etc, for evidence of that.
We know what his ideas generally are, and he makes sure they're plastered all over the place. We don't need to spread them, for him, here too.
His power is in being a celebrity, getting his bullshit spread, not in elected office. Don't spread it for him. That is, unless you agree with his bigotry I guess, but I've seen your name around and you seem sound.
They've poisoned and clear-felled and strip-mined this earth
Made a cess pit of the paradise that was ours by birth
They've raped and they've burned and they've plundered our world
Our banner of resistance will now be unfurled
We're nailing our colours right up to the mast
The sands of time are running out fast
To stop the nutters destroying our home
Kidnapped from our children from whom it's on loan
Enough is enough is enough of their greed
Mass eco-defence is what the earth needs
Terra-ist action all over the land
To stop the lunacy the rich have got planned
E.L.F. strike in the dead of night
See the bulldozers are burning bright
Construction area totally trashed
Earth-rape machinery utterly smashed
Some might say that we're too "extreme"
But all we want is air and water that's clean
And a green earth not a desert is what we need Don't let them sacrifice it on their altar of greed
Rise up and conquer your fear
They can be stopped like Jose-Maria
Our world a toxic slag-heap they will make
So take whatever action you feel it's right to take
It's up to you it's up to me to make a stand
Our generation holds it's future in it's hands
Time to fight back let them do their worst
Green anarchy in action - put the earth first!
Lol, claims they're being authoritarian by... upholding their rules, upholding equality, upholding human rights, and preventing transphobia? Okay TERF.
Showed up for one day, and then went back to work the next day after letting off some steam.
Trump is still in charge. You still have a dictator.
ICE still does what it wants. Masked unidentifiable men are still kidnapping people off the streets.
America is being destroyed at record pace and "the land of the brave" have done very little so far to stop it.
The Iraq war 2 protests had record numbers but it still happened. Protest needs to either be sustained over a period of time or combined with other actions. So far, No Kings hasn't done that and it's therefore achieved nothing.