This echoes an article Polly Toynbee wrote some time ago - parents just want fair access to a good local school, not the madness of the "choice" agenda.

Simon Jenkins also touches something which has been a theme of my work over the last few years. Improvement is not always (or even often) about changing structures - although this is the bit that's easiest to focus on. It's also about people, skills, and partnerships.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sCgxO4xXL9KWuj41C1_S3Xg/view.m?id=449311&tid=120787&cat=Comment

ROFLMAO, finally we've discovered how to fund the royal family (until the revolution):

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/ssuym8meTKmT5iLRAfqL-dQ/view.m?id=447135&tid=120787&cat=Comment

Indeed:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sJ-i7D14rWoHR-DQO91AOkg/view.m?id=446804&tid=120787&cat=Comment

Some photos taken on the Wirral Coastal Walk on Sunday. If they're awful, remember I was walking 15 miles and it was very hot!

And this is just the start. The claws are out already, as the Tories return to type as the 'nasty' party.

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/sksObj0QCuMLe3RtcOrYA_w/view.m?id=116498&cat=Comment

I've started the Wirral Coastal Walk. Check for updates on Twitter.

Hour and a half fiddling to get wpa_supplicant working on my Lenovo ideapad. It just wouldn't go. Set up the link, but then I was having to run dhclient manually. Well the answer was hidden on someone else's blog - the line in rc.conf needs to be:

ifconfig_wlan0="WPA SYNCDHCP"

Instead of:

ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

Must be to do with using the ndis module, it needs the pause to connect. Sadly, this doesn't seem to be documented in either the wpa_supplicant or dhclient manpages :-(

I will be completing the Wirral Coastal Walk on Sunday in support of Alex's school, and I'll be tweeting my progress as I go. It's 15 miles, which will be a stretch for me - especially as it looks like it will be hot.

I may also find time to blog about my unhappy experience with a Palm Treo 500v. Being a big fan of Palm I was expecting great things, but this was a real disappointment. After a week I'm back to my HTC S620, which is far more ugly but much more functional. I still miss Palm OS though.

Never has the ability of capitalism to sacrifice the wellbeing of us all the the sake of the profits (and bonuses) of 200 individuals been made more clear:

http://m.guardian.co.uk/ms/p/gmg/op/snZWu31IGw6xOI7nF8dg6uA/view.m?id=439624&tid=120787&cat=News

Of course, I wasn't ever really going to vote Conservative. But I'm disgusted that she couldn't even be bothered to reply...

Text of an email I sent today to Esther Mcvey, Conservative candidate for Wirral West:

Esther,

I sent an email to you a short while ago via the National Autistic Society webis
te asking for your views on autism. My son has autism, and if I were to vote for
you I would want to know that you were at least interested in the rights of, an
d issues surrounding, people with autism.

You didn't reply. I'm very disappointed. I am now reconsidering my vote. How do
you intend to support people with autism in Wirral if elected?


Regards,


Peter Harrison.