Archive for September, 2008

What is a “Mountain”? Mynydd Graig Goch and all that…

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Today’s news media gave a lot of attention to the resurvey of Mynydd Graig Goch which supposedly reclassified its summit from a “hill” to a “mountain”. Does this really make sense? (more…)

Are our schools entrenching the very British mess?

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

A recent incident caused me to wonder whether our schools, far from helping to resolve the UK’s two systems muddle, are actually consolidating and perpetuating it.
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