KEEPING UP APPEARANCES

Glenys Stacey, the head of Ofqual, has admitted that she applied pressure to to one of England's biggest exam boards Edexcel  to alter its GCSE English boundaries to avoid grade inflation.  This was done in order to maintain standards in English examinations. A spokesperson for Ofqual  reportedly stated “We gotta keep up gud standards, evry year,innit!”  

WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE

With the 30th anniversary of the Falklands (sorry Las Malvinas) war upon us, President Cristina Fernández has gone on the verbal attack again.  It is obvious that a small British, English-speaking colony, 8000 miles from home should not exist. Perhaps the irony of the fact that she delivered the address in Spanish has escaped her.  We were all occupiers, the difference is merely when.