SIR – In her criticism of electric cars, Annabel Denham ( Comment, October 6) does not mention their impact on the grid. These establishments produce more Left-wing thinkers than the state sector. SIR – Will Sir Keir Starmer be shooting himself in the foot by trying to annihilate private education? Labour voted for a proposal that said private schools’ property, land and other assets would be seized and “redistributed democratically and fairly across the country’s educational institutions.”ĭon’t be fooled: Labour is coming for private schools. Universities would be told to ensure that no more than 7 per cent of their students were privately educated.Īngela Rayner, now the shadow deputy prime minister, was shadow education secretary at that time. I would remind readers that in September 2019 Labour said it would “integrate” independent schools into the state sector, as their existence is incompatible with the party’s pledge to promote social justice. Sir Keir Starmer recently pledged that a Labour government would strip them of their charitable status – but then U-turned. Now Labour wants to destroy private schools. Tony Blair banned the creation of any new grammar schools in 1998. SIR – The Labour Party destroyed our wonderful grammar school system. In low-margin situations, such as the running of a private school, this is the fundamental difference between breaking even or not.Įither Labour is attacking private schools, or it is accepting that many will go under. How many organisations can suddenly afford to accept considerably less revenue while continuing to provide the same product or service? SIR – Sir Keir Starmer says schools will “have to ask themselves” whether to pass on the cost of VAT on private school fees, and claims that this is “not an attack on private schools” ( report, September 28). It will, however, affect those earning less than the Phillipsons and those schools providing for their children’s needs. Levying VAT on school fees will not affect rich parents or wealthy schools. Yet she blithely seeks to deny those who are less affluent the opportunity to provide for their children’s education. People like Bridget Phillipson, the shadow education secretary, and her highly paid partner may be able to afford to live in affluent areas of London. The first line of Lorem Ipsum, “Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet.”, comes from a line in section 1.10.32.SIR – Labour’s policy on private schools is sheer hypocrisy ( “I never thought about sending my children to public school”, report, October 8). This book is a treatise on the theory of ethics, very popular during the Renaissance. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum” (The Extremes of Good and Evil) by Cicero, written in 45 BC. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Various versions have evolved over the years, sometimes by accident, sometimes on purpose (injected humour and the like).Ĭontrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. Many desktop publishing packages and web page editors now use Lorem Ipsum as their default model text, and a search for ‘lorem ipsum’ will uncover many web sites still in their infancy. The point of using Lorem Ipsum is that it has a more-or-less normal distribution of letters, as opposed to using ‘Content here, content here’, making it look like readable English. It is a long established fact that a reader will be distracted by the readable content of a page when looking at its layout. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry.
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