The Productive Pessimist

  TEACHERS, EMPLOYERS, & "OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS IS MY COMPLAINT" TYPES: .  Black, beige, grey, or navy knee-length, cotton shorts, worn with plain white or black plimsols, and a plain coloured short-sleeve button down shirt still look "professional".  There is no reason you should be preventing students or staff from wearing them, or complaining about people dressed "like that". . No, a fan that someone brought with them is not going to blow up your entire electrical system, or set fire to your office/classroom, as long as the flex isn't visibly frayed, and it's not plugged into an overloaded socket.  If you can't let go of your fixation on controlling everyone who is forced to be locked in a room with you for hours at a time - open a minimum of two widows. Put a fan that you  bought (so you feel secure in it being "compliant" with something or other) in front of every open window. . YOU DO NOT NEED TO "GO THROUGH PROCU...

                                            On Friday 20th September 2024, it was revealed that the UK’s national debt was equal to the income the UK was able to generate; in short, debt was at 100% of GDP. This last occurred in the 1960s - and resulted in the following decade, the 1970s, being extremely difficult for ordinary people, with standards of living declining sharply across all demographics, something which, inevitably, hit those who were already experiencing poverty the hardest. The 1970s saw a massive loss of manufacturing in Britain - historically, the one sector that had been able to pull Britain through the downturns of economic cycles, because the UK used to be known, and respected for, exceptional quality of its manufactured goods, and many countries around t...