Boris Johnson has fuelled speculation about an early election by the scale of the changes to his top team - with new Tory chair Oliver Dowden telling staff last night to get ready for a vote in the next two years.
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Inflation has been on the rise again By David Clark I READ the other day that around one third of financial analysts and money managers have no first-hand experience of the financial crisis in 2007/8. The same article depressingly informed me that the majority of the US population has no memory of the 1987 stock market crash. By the same token many market commentators and participants have never experienced an inflationary environment. Some of the clever people I work with have been making very seductive arguments for some time that the return of inflation is inevitable and would come as a shock to markets and consumers alike.
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The Secret Teacher: Must we go back to State exams as we know them next year? We have here a real opportunity to conduct proper reform
Tue, May 11, 2021, 00:00 The Secret Teacher
The new junior cycle has been akin to the toddler who keeps bumping into things and cannot quite get sturdy on its legs. It has gathered far more doubters than believers. Photograph: iStock
With the new style in-house Leaving Cert grades very much on my mind, I’ve been trying to establish how much past data and how much future speculation I’m permitted to use as I calculate and/or predict.