Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics

Is it just me, or is the crowing about 98% of GCSE students achieving a "pass" grade a load of nonsense?

It does sound wonderful, but as I read into it, another story emerges. Apparently, the statistic counts ANY grade at all as being a pass, which is not my take on things at all. When I sat my GCE 'O' Levels, a long time ago admittedly, A-C were passes, D-E were failures. Take the same measure to yesterday's results and you get a 61% figure, which is rather more realistic - if less headline grabbing...

Stay Away

I'm less than delighted to hear that lunatic "cleric" Omar Bakri, less than 24 hours after fleeing Britain has announced that he intends to return. As I understand it, he's not in possession of a British passport, so I sincerely hope that he would be turned away.

One less bigot will make the country a better place.

Another Good Idea?

Whilst I wrote my previous post, it occurred to me that surfing te web with a laptop - which is what I'm doing - is not as easy as the same task when done with a desktop machine.

Why couldn't laptops have scroll-wheels built into them? It can't be technically difficult to do, and in these days when just about every mouse you can buy has a wheel, managing without one seems anachronistic and clumsy!

A Superb Idea

I was impressed to read in this morning's Sunday Times about a scheme to "prescribe" pets to the long term sick. It might sound rather unconventional, but I reckon that it could work...

I Was Afraid This Would Happen

I'm very disturbed by a report that racial attacks in Britain have sky rocketed since the London bombings.

Quite apart from the evil nature of these attacks, which I condemn completely and utterly, can't the lowlife scum responsible for them get their tiny little minds around the thought that the only people that this action will benefit are those who are responsible for the bombings in the first place.

FACT: Britain is a multicultural and multiracial society. We'd be all the poorer for the lack of this.

Fingers Crossed

Four weeks ago, London endured the 7/7 bombings. Two weeks ago it was the 21/7 failed attacks. Hope nothing happens today...