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Pricey irritated people and that was a lot of fun (his chastising of supergroupie Samantha "Pearl" Lowe is particuarly memorable), but almost all of the bands he championed flopped. Romo anyone? Kenickie? Yes obviously the Manics were a lot more successful, but they were universally loved by...

Sorry, I'm all confus-ed. Which comments? Fair enough. Maybe my experience was a bad one, but nonetheless contained hearing more than one teacher go into a tirade about all the "lazy bastards round here". And although I met some very good and very hard-working teachers when I performed...

Well I try and practice non-judgement. But yes. :)

I didn't say "all teachers work 09:00-15:30 and have 3 months off a year". I didn't say "those who can't, teach". You guys saw the comment about certain workers within the public sector (I was not referring to teachers as such, though I think a lot of teachers wouldn't necessarily make great...

This thread had clearly moved on to talking about teachers by page two of this thread, I didn't contribute until page 3. I at no point slagged teachers off as an entire profession, you are making generalised statements without any evidence to back them up. My contribution to this thread began...

I think you're being unfair here. I've asked questions, I haven't asserted too much, I've been pretty clear about differentiating opinion from fact. In terms of pay figures, I looked at the NUT notes (http://www.teachers.org.uk/resources/pdf/PayConditionsENGLISH-5165.pdf) - what do you want me...

If instead of insisting on being offended, you actually look at what I wrote, you'll see that I was referring to doing 'administrative/strategic roles' in the public sector vs the private sector.

That's helpful.

Many people who work in the public sector do so because they are better suited to it and in many cases wouldn't last 5 minutes in a commercial environment. I think there's a tendency for Teachers to think that simply everybody is earning more money than them, but my understanding is that an...

Then don't take these roles on. There's plenty of teachers who won't touch anything to do with "administration", even if it means creating ludicrous amounts of extra work. While I'm not going to pretend I've never been irked by some teacher refusing to do very basic things that would reduce...

Yeah, I have probably significantly underestimated the amount of teachers at the top of the upper scale. Sorry about that. As I say, I think there's definitely a solid argument to be made for adding a 4th and 5th point to the Upper Payscale. Nonetheless.... It's not that I'm not deeply...

Fair enough. We're talking about the Upper Pay Scale presumably. By my reckoning, they've been teaching 10-12 years? Fair play, we probably should do more to keep them teaching and I'd be in favour of adding a couple of scale points to the upper list. But the majority of teachers are still...

I'd be genuinely interested to know how many teachers are at the top of their pay spines. And even so, those teachers will have likely received pay increases through that mechanism in previous years. If somebody reaches the top if their payscale, then in many cases they can look for actual...

Playing Devil's Advocate a teensy bit, won't every teacher get to rise a point up the pay spine, thus gaining a pay increase somewhat over 2.5%?

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,2275074,00.html Okay that's a report from a centre-right group, but my statement isn't particularly controversial or solely dependent on anecdotal evidence for that matter. Incidentally, I've been to 8 or 9 schools and observed a variety of...

May as well add my own offshoot, I worked as an admin for an inner city secondary school last year (without a CRB disclosure incidentally), and I didn't really see anybody being 'moulded' or anything that suggested that level of intention. The whole thing was pretty shocking though - I myself...

Nandos is better than Pizza Hut and better than a lot of pub food but I think it says a lot about the quality of food in this country that people big it up not entirely ironically. I'd rather just go all the way to the bottom and get a fat bucket of fried chicken.

This Fairtrade debate has been interesting for sure, but there is another dimension to the debate surely? After all, more or less the only way to buy chocolate that has not been tainted by slavery is to buy fair-trade.

Just to be clear: I still think it's worth going. :D

IIRC, when FWD first moved to Fridays it had a stated doors open time of 9PM. I was at the first Friday FWD (June/July 2006) and we turned up at 21:30 'cos I wasn't sure what the deal would be crowdwise. Think they opened up just after 22:00. Pretty sure I was in before 23:00 at the 4-5...