Joe
pfm Member
Tangential but the alarm is a separate mechanism from the time-keeping one.
It needs winding each time it is set.
a ) it never stated that.
b) it only needs winding if you let it run down to nothing when the alarm goes off.
Tangential but the alarm is a separate mechanism from the time-keeping one.
It needs winding each time it is set.
Question 2 presumes no 24 hr mechanical alarm clocks exist. Given the inventiveness of clockmakers over the years, I can't believe this to be the case.
Maybe this combined with a better run and funded state school sector.I'd prefer to see target quotas in public institutions, like we have with gender, race and disability, for private/state school educated in the proportions that exist in the school system.
So, for example, universities (both student and staff), NHS, the judiciary, Parliament and civil service would have to move towards a ratio approximating the numbers of children which go to each type of school.
I'd also like to see Parliamentarians having to use public institutions when in office, bu that's not going to happen.
Stephen
Think of schools for the deaf and the blind before you all call for the abolition of independent schools and their charitable status please.
Right, so are you sayin that if one was to be walking through Richmond Park, it would be green?
And...as I said, there is only one Eton and hundreds and hundreds of other types of independent schools that are doing great work with the disabled and the disadvantaged. Think of schools for the deaf and the blind before you all call for the abolition of independent schools and their charitable status please.
Very good point regarding charitable status, I’d not thought about that and would now suggest it be assessed on a case by case basis.
assessed on a case by case basis.
Private schools not only benefit from charitable status but enjoy tax privileges that even the Spectator agrees offers unfair advantage .
, schools for those with special needs can easily retain charitable status.
And so could Eton under the same rules. You have to have laws that are fair and treat all equally or they will be challenged ( and beaten down ) in the courts.
https://www.theguardian.com/comment...vate-schools-charitable-status-strip-benefitsMaybe I read a different article - but I could detect no extra tax privileges other than charitable status. What are they?
I wasn't aware that priviledge was a part of the Equality Act.
Jesus... you are so blinkered.
Eton must comply to all the rules governing charity status and I imagine that it does.
Your hatred of its perceived privilege has no bearing on that fact. You don't get the right to abolish their charitable status because "you just don't like them "
And the Equality Act was the wrong one to invoke in this conversation. It is simply the law of the land that Laws apply equally and fairly to all and not "except Eton which I don't like"