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With pretence being the key word.

A story in the press each day this week. Either 4th May or 11th May would be my prediction. The science has swerved before, it will swerve again. The chances of the lockdown surviving in any recognisable form once the schools are open is absolutely zero...

I agree with you that schools were all over the place with this. They went, literally overnight, from expecting 10-20% of students in to hardly any. I think in many places there are literally more staff in the school than there are students (office staff/pastoral/senior management/premises plus...

I fail to see how the post below can be interpreted in any way other than ‘having a go’. But do feel free to come over now as the injured party. For what it’s worth, when I’ve read most of your posts I’ve had nothing but admiration for you. Most of what you’ve written on other threads seems...

So what would your actual proposal be? That the schools should have remained open? That they should reopen immediately? How would you propose to maintain the lockdown when the population in general look out of their window and see children going to/from school? The schools did keep going far...

How would you propose maintaining a lockdown for the rest of the population whilst hoards of teenagers make their way to/from school each day? How long do you think the population at large would treat the lockdown with any degree of seriousness? I notice that you’ve still not answered my...

For those still going on about exam invigilation, the relevant section of the JQC rules is 12.3.d ‘make sure that a teacher who teaches the subject being examined, or a senior member of teaching staff who has overall responsibility for the subject/department and/or preparing the candidates for...

Many people will accept any level of risk, provided it is not they who are put at risk. I stick by my prediction that schools will re-open in early May. I would imagine by then that many of the people working from home will be heartily sick of having their kids around.

‘Horizon’ is suitably vague. I’m not saying that I think it’s right or wrong that we ease the lockdown by the end of the month but I do think it is inevitable. It seems that many businesses wouldn’t survive a lockdown until June and in order to get businesses going you need schools open first.

Is the correct answer.

Lots of drip-drip-drip stories in the press both yesterday and today. We shall see.

How successful do you believe the lockdown would have been if the schools had remained fully open? Are you disputing the Imperial College figure of 400 000 dead had we continued with the government’s initial strategy of herd immunity and doing little to ‘flatten the curve’? As I’ve mentioned...

So you acknowledge that you have 25% of staff off in your own workplace and yet still persist with the notion that schools closed due to pressure from ‘groups representing teachers’ rather than teachers following the same guidance as your own colleagues. Perhaps you would be kind enough to...

Are you trying to convince us that you are working in a cramped room with absolutely no social distancing measures in place? Are you seriously saying that teachers with underlying health conditions should have ignored the letter from their GP and remained in work? Do you think that the...

Many thanks indeed, I really appreciate your kindness in writing.

Thank you very much, I’m so pleased that you like it! Malton is a lovely little station, with a great cafe serving breakfast too. Thank you again:)

I’m really pleased that you managed to see them all. I believe stock for the one you missed is as follows: TP07 11507 (First class) 12719 12720 12721 12807 (Driving trailer)

Saturday 14.03.2020 All initial workings confirmed by sight: 68028 ‘Lord President’ plus TP08 (Loco on Liverpool end) 1P05 0242 Manchester Piccadilly - York 1F50 0528 York - Liverpool Lime Street 1E27 0754 Liverpool Lime Street - Scarborough 1F64 1134 Scarborough - Liverpool Lime Street 1E41...

Not booked for a 68. The following service, 1E51 is today allocated 68023. Info for today (as I understand it) 68019 TP08 1P05 0242 Manchester Piccadilly - York 1F50 0528 York - Liverpool Lime Street 1E27 0754 Liverpool Lime Street - Scarborough 1F64 1134 Scarborough - Liverpool Lime Street...

I’m not certain you are correct about the ‘YI’ code. 9M11 was caught up in the same disruption as 1F66 this afternoon and that’s shown as ‘cancelled between Manchester Victoria and Liverpool Lime Street due to the late arrival of an inbound service’...