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I am off on my holidays tomorrow morning. If I have some profound thoughts while I am away and come across somewhere with net access, I shall post them here. Otherwise normal service will be resumed in a fortnight.

Do we really need to see this story about A-levels getting easier again? It's oddly reminiscent of 2004's results, 2003's results and 2002's results. Why does this story keep popping up every year? In my opinion, it's simple, examiners are getting lazier. Rather than setting a totally new exam paper in a topic every year, they recycle old exam papers. When I sat my GCSEs and A-Levels I was able

The latest selection of the best things this week in the British blogosphere has now been posted.

There are people out there who are willing to use violence. There are people who have been influenced by peddlers of hate. There are many people out there who have very odd ideas but would never turn to terrorism. And there are others, no-Muslims, who do turn to violence against their neighbours and communities. Demanding that Muslims become more British or call themselves Asian-British is

Tony Blair, the British Prime Minister, is keen to tell us that he was right all along about terrorism. Terrorists are a threat, they are a danger. Now that “the rules have changed”, the Government feels that they have the right to bounce the judiciary, liberals and civil rights campaigners into accepting legislation that is authoritarian and illegal under international law. After the bombings, the intelligence services and police apparently briefed the Government that the UK is facing an insurgency. The claim was that thousands of young Muslin men trained in Afghanistan are now living amongst us. ...

Blogging is in the news today, so much so that constant references to these items by bloggers such as myself is beginning to get incestuous. The Observer reports that ambulance staff, police, magistrates and other state employees are dealing with daily pressures by turning to blogging to describe their frustrations, and sometimes triumphs. They often disguise their identities to avoid giving offence or sparking libel proceedings. Meanwhile The Independent reveals a distinctively lower-tech trend in the USA with the advent of 'freeway blogging'. This involves hanging banners with political epigrams off bridges so as to express an opinion, normally against ...