Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

Good for you in not persueing the cases. The press is a major problem in anything they start looking at.

I no longer produce nor sell dark room attic home brew nor science lab ethanol and orange I'm afraid! Would have been worth comparing that with my so-claimed ginger beer - the earlier rasberry cocktail was so lethally horribleI had to abandon it. Long before your time. Did you ever get ordered to b...

The behaviour of some of the pupils on the other hand was 'challenging' to say the least. The problem, of course, was rarely the children themselves but the parenting (for so many different reasons). As an aside, my favourite posting was actually in an exclusion unit for one of the local academy gr...

But this is standard practice? A release at the midway point based on good behaviour and other such measurables? One assumes that despite a formal parole hearing there are appropriate controls to govern his movement and conduct. A simple question; what is "good behaviour"? I suspect that ...

Lets do a deal! I have food, petrol, easy travel, can send and buy goods anywhere in Europe ( not meaning England here ) without problem. I want tea and Marmite. Any Brexiters wishing to deal? My immediate boss in London was one such - he simply could not go to to Head Office even after 2 years of ...

Lets do a deal! I have food, petrol, easy travel, can send and buy goods anywhere in Europe ( not meaning England here ) without problem. I want tea and Marmite. Any Brexiters wishing to deal? From previous posts I suspect that you live in France. I lived there for 18 years so I have some knowledge...

The TRUTH about politics for those who know "better"

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Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. Plato, ancient Greek Philosopher Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Union politician When I was a boy I was to...

An American author referring to Vietman, the Bay of Pigs, the invasion of Syria (this was before Afghanistan but that applies) publicly refers to that city as Sodom-on-the-Potomac.

Interesting comparison. What about Sodom-on-Thames?

A useful and generally sensible rant (well, it was over 10 words ;-) ) Though I am pleased never to have been subjected to the privations of rationing (though I still have the ration card I was issued as a baby 'just in case'), my parent's view is that the nation as a whole was never better fed, no...

I can't imagine what sort of a life poor old Banker Brown had, over there in the land of the accordion players. After we got over the worst problems of rationing (necessary in order to spread scarce resources around) most working class households in the later 50s (like my dear old mum's) were able ...

. So they went ahead but apparently finished with less than 11 a side. Dad told me that he was OK because some in their family had work, and food on the table but many others didn't and others in the team were just flaking out from the cold. Belfast in the early fifties. Yes; it really as you descr...

The school was supposed to fend and care for us regardless if we had " loving parents "or not. Two much older masters, many unmarried, themselves damaged by the war and a matron to control 50+ boys of mixed ages, backgrounds, temperaments, even languages; given the norms of the day what c...

Continuing: the school at least in the 60s and 70s was full of " damaged children " children who grew up with one or more parents who suffered during WW2. Certainly there were other pupils who came from backgrounds not damaged by a war but a host of other difficulties . A lot of these if ...

The present system is an invitation to the mega rich to park their money in property and the result is house price (and rent) inflation and more expensive housing for the rest of us. I suggested in my letter that this was a good way to raise money because the wealthy FT readers who would be affecte...