Well done to Ed

I would like to offer my congratulations to Ed Miliband, the new leader of the Labour Party.

However, his victory is yet another example of where the "experts" got it wrong. A minute or two before the Labour lady announced the result, BBC political editor Nick Robinson predicted that Miliband major would win. Other "experts" claimed that as well and also said that Ed Balls would finish last when, in fact, he won the bronze medal.

So as Miliband minor takes over, beware the "experts" - they are usually wrong as they have been on Aids, climate change, bird flu, the Millennium Bug and so many other topics.

Political prats

Is this anyway for senior Government ministers to behave?


I can't imagine Harold Macmillan, Alec Douglas-Home or even John Profumo behaving in such a pathetic way.

No more testing time for schools...

The Daily Mirror reports that "high-pressure exams" for 11-year-olds will be scrapped according to Children's Secretary Ed Balls.

Children sit English, science and maths tests on the same day at the end of junior school. Now they will be able to sit them "when they feel ready".

Another example of children being mollycoddled - what is wrong with testing? The 11-plus didn't harm children because in those days there was a real education to be had, not just the chance to be socially engineered.

It's apparently part of (yet another) overhaul of the education system. The Mirror reports that "Pupils as young as four will also get to learn a modern foreign language that could include Urdu or Mandarin. And teachers will be urged to work lessons into other parts of the school day by translating lunch menus and taking the register in another language."

Yes because saying that will help when reading out a list of names!