Three new entries for our Vicar of Bray category ...
The BBC reports that 'South Africa's justice minister has demanded an explanation after 270 miners were
charged with the murder of their colleagues who were shot by police.
'State prosecutors charged the miners under the apartheid-era "common purpose"
doctrine.'
As you are not dead, like your friends, we will put in you in prison anyway. And ...
The news that Transport Secretary Justine Greening might have to be reshuffled out of her job for opposing a ban on a third runway at Heathrow as (strategist) George Osborne thinks it is time for a(nother) government U-turn. The fact that opposition to a third runway was in both parties' manifestos, in the coalition agreement and is current government policy is presumably no bar to a U-turn.
That was, of course, then and this, of course, is now. But you deserve a bonus item: the announcement about the English GCSE results. How come the all-important C/D grade boundary appeared to have moved between January and June?
It was Gove meddling said teachers ... A pause while OfQual looked at the results, no doubt scrabbling around for some way to absolve the Minister. Ah yes, let's retrofit. The Chief Executive then stood up to announce that it was not the June exams that were wrong but the January exams which were 'generous'. Problem solved: no re-marking necessary and the January students feeling relieved.
Hollow laughter from teachers; Sir Humphrey proud of his own.
