Unofficial Christ's Hospital Forum

I said "for as long as anyone can remember" but I do seem now to remember that Simon Jenkins quantified this as being from 1973. So in other words, to make a comparison from the period when we joined the EU. Here in Gravesend there are many eastern Europeans but also what some people here call the ...

On the subject of immigration, I've now heard the same thing from two sources: one was Simon Jenkins, one of the senior leader writers in the Guardian, and the other someone like Barnier or Juncker in the EU, that for as long as anyone can remember we've taken in more immigrants from outside the EU...

I replied that part of the so-called tip top education was the ability of the public schools to use the old school tie network to bounce modest talents into desirable and well-paid jobs. Might work for Eton but not CH. Outside OB day I have only met one Old Blue since I left CH (when we were waitin...

This comes from 2 math teachers with a combined total of 70 years’ experience. It has an indisputable mathematical logic. . This is a strictly mathematical viewpoint ... and it goes like this: What Makes 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%? Ever wonder about those people who say they are ...

If health be the problem methinks our ancestors had the right idea. As was normal it was Oliver Cromwell's corpse which was unearthed and placed in the dock for his trial. Not too sure how they would hve carried out the second part of hung, drawn and quartered.

Definitely interesting though I can go along with the doggy bit.
Sent it to a "very different" ex RC priest for his opinion.

My first instinctive reaction to the creation of this thread was "Oh, NO!" Not because it relates to Earth's own health but to the early movement using the name. I didn't and do not now know from outside reading the name of Rupert Sheldrake but I was concerned that there appeared to be just one spea...

But yes, in the vein of Scrub’s post, I had once had enough and knocked on my housemaster’s door with a bl**dy nose after another boy had walked into the room, jumped on top of me on the sofa and started punching me repeatedly in the head. I was given a disciplinary detention for pushing him off me...

Ok but I'm now a bit confused. What you're saying is that large or 'substantial' parts of the UK are national parks (and therefore largely uninhabitable). Surely this reduces the amount of space available for people to live in even further? Comparisons to France aside and adjusting for "percentage ...

I agree Marty, population shouldn’t be the only factor. I should/could have expanded on this but my main point was that the UK is very stingy and reticent with regard to accepting people in need, compared to most of our neighbours. The government’s proud “hostile atmosphere” and all that. My mother...

I don't disagree with the rest of your post Otter but why should the number of refugees we take in be linked to the existing population size? That doesn't account for the amount of space we have (which compared to most European countries is far less). The UK is the 7th most densely populated countr...

The UK is independent. Are you seriously suggesting that France, Germany etc. are not independent countries? If so, there's no point debating with you as it is as worthwhile as arguing with a flat-earther. Talking of "not having an argument to make", I'm yet to hear a single good argument in favour...

The UK is independent. Are you seriously suggesting that France, Germany etc. are not independent countries? If so, there's no point debating with you as it is as worthwhile as arguing with a flat-earther. Talking of "not having an argument to make", I'm yet to hear a single good argument in favour...

Bullying and self-harm were rife in the 90s, my boarding house was full of girls who carved words into their arms using a compass. Squit bashing was common, putting a dustbin over a second former’s head and hitting it with hockey sticks or making them sit under a running shower in their pyjamas was...

But what hasn't really been mentioned (at least not publicly) is what USE she could be. She has after all spent 4 years living slap bang in the middle of an organisation bent on destroying the west. She is therefore a potential treasure trove of intelligence Given their love of beheading women can ...