Poor baby - run home to mummy!

@JenniferEccles, How many male schoolteachers’ careers have been ruined because of a malicious accusation from a female student with an axe to grind ?

She didn’t ‘shack up’ with him, she was one of his mistresses and he set her up in the house which had previously been occupied by Christine Keeler. She knew what she was doing. Who knows if things would have been different if he had not died - she never said she regretted that time, the Profumo trial was her only regret as far as she said. You’re projecting scenarios with no evidence to back them up.

Zennomore I haven’t read the full thread, but I saw your post.
I left school in 1988. During my time at school, one male teacher was jailed for having sex with a female pupil /s. Another married teacher got a vulnerable girl pregnant.
When I moved onto A levels, a married lecturer in his late fifties had an ‘affair’ with a 17 year old student. He subsequently divorced his wife and married his student.
Meanwhile, a very high profile man married a 17 year old girl, potentially with SEN.

My point is, that’s just my experience of a few years schooling

trisher ‘ it’s been said ‘ does not mean ‘it is true ‘ .

FannyCornforth

Zennomore I haven’t read the full thread, but I saw your post.
I left school in 1988. During my time at school, one male teacher was jailed for having sex with a female pupil /s. Another married teacher got a vulnerable girl pregnant.
When I moved onto A levels, a married lecturer in his late fifties had an ‘affair’ with a 17 year old student. He subsequently divorced his wife and married his student.
Meanwhile, a very high profile man married a 17 year old girl, potentially with SEN.

Mine is a very different experience. I taught for over 25 years in large inner city secondary schools with over 120 teachers at each one, not one teacher was jailed, sacked or accused of inappropriate behaviour with a pupil. It’s not as common as some people think although undoubtedly it does happen. There were however a number of relationships between members of staff which caused some problems.

Deeply damaging claims in both the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times that Prince Charles's closest aide Michael Fawcett fixed honours for a Saudi Tycoon who donated £1.5million to royal charities. Fawcett has tonight resigned. But how deep does this go?

Let’s be clear. It’s inconceivable that one of Charles’s aides did this without his full knowledge and urging. Charles needs to be the subject of the investigation.

And then there’s the Queen’s dinner for despots. thetimes.co.uk/article/outrage-over-queens-dine-with-a-despot-jubilee-lunch-89w3nwgmbg2

This is a hugely significant story and very different from previous ones questioning royal charitable donations. The allegation that a key royal aide offered to secure a knighthood and British citizenship for a billionaire Saudi donor is deeply troubling.

@RepublicStaff
We’ll be looking into this in more detail. Does look like the Charity Commission should be investigating, and possibly the police. Honours in exchange for favours is a criminal offence. Also more reason to end royal secrecy.

The Royal Family are a bunch of over privileged egotists who use their position to further their own ends, be they financial or sexual. The idea that they are somehow self sacrificing and that they serve the nation is just a well crafted publicity stunt. Occasionally the mask slips and the awful truth is revealed.

Labour Party inquiryEdit
Main article: Chakrabarti Inquiry
After her appointment in April 2016 as chair of an inquiry into antisemitism and other forms of racism in the Labour Party, Chakrabarti announced that she had joined the party in order to gain members' trust and confidence, and expressed confidence that this would not compromise her independence.[35] Chakrabarti criticised the Conservative Party for not conducting their own enquiry into Islamophobia, following allegations from Sayeeda Warsi in the London's 2016 mayoral election against Sadiq Khan.[36] The Chakrabarti Inquiry report was published in June 2016 and concluded that Labour was "not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, or other forms of racism," but that there was an "occasionally toxic atmosphere".[37]

Jeremy Corbyn announced her as the only Labour appointment to the House of Lords in August 2016. This was a necessary step to her subsequent appointment as Shadow Attorney General. However, some (including Labour MPs Tom Watson and Wes Streeting) saw this as creating the potential for bias in what should have been an independent inquiry.[38] When asked about the appointment, a spokesman for Corbyn said that Chakrabarti was "an ideal appointment to the Lords".[39]

Ohh look, a squirrel.

You needed to post that Alegrias1

Did I Annie? Thanks for letting me know.

Have I missed out somehow? Is Shami Chakrabarti now part of the Royal Family? Her only way in would be to marry and only Andrew is available. Oh Shami how could you stoop so low?

Is Mandy Rice Davies ?

Newatthis

He ran home to Balmoral with Fergie.

It's the family holiday.

Grany

Deeply damaging claims in both the Mail on Sunday and Sunday Times that Prince Charles's closest aide Michael Fawcett fixed honours for a Saudi Tycoon who donated £1.5million to royal charities. Fawcett has tonight resigned. But how deep does this go?

Let’s be clear. It’s inconceivable that one of Charles’s aides did this without his full knowledge and urging. Charles needs to be the subject of the investigation.

And then there’s the Queen’s dinner for despots. thetimes.co.uk/article/outrage-over-queens-dine-with-a-despot-jubilee-lunch-89w3nwgmbg2

He used to be his aide. He's something to do with charity now, The Prince's Trust or something.

Anniebach

trisher you brought Mandy Rice Davies into the discussion

Andrew’s daughter has no recollection of the party when she was 12, the family who hosted the party confirmed she was at
the party that afternoon but not Andrew.

I don’t believe the pizza hut claim , why wasn’t Fergie there

I know it isn't important but it was Pizza Express wasn't it?

Do many people have memories about specific parties when they were 12? I'm just amazed people can so accurately remember the date of parties and who was there years later. Also the date they went to Pizza Express. I'd struggle to tell you what I had for dinner last Monday. In fact I have no clue what I had for dinner last Monday, I know I had my GC here but I can't remember if they stayed for dinner, they probably did but if someone asked me to swear an oath on it I couldn't. My memory must be worse than I thought.

Sorry, Pizza Express .

FannyCornforth

Zennomore I haven’t read the full thread, but I saw your post.
I left school in 1988. During my time at school, one male teacher was jailed for having sex with a female pupil /s. Another married teacher got a vulnerable girl pregnant.
When I moved onto A levels, a married lecturer in his late fifties had an ‘affair’ with a 17 year old student. He subsequently divorced his wife and married his student.
Meanwhile, a very high profile man married a 17 year old girl, potentially with SEN.

Similar happened at the school I attended. In fact the teacher who got a pupil pregnant and subsequently married her when my Mum was at the school was still teaching the remedial class twenty years later I'd like to think things like that don't happen now but honestly, who on earth would have thought that was ok?

Fawcett hasn’t resigned. He has stood down for a while. I think this is the third time he has been involved in a scandal. Wasn’t the last one when he got in trouble for selling Charles’ unwanted gifts? Of course Charles knows exactly what’s going on and supports him wholeheartedly. Once HMQ dies so much stuff will come out in the wash concerning Charles, our heads will be spinning.

PA must be fitter than he looks. According to the title of this thread he ran home to mummy and has also run "home to Balmoral with Fergie". Doesn't he have a car?

Perhaps it’s the Royal ‘ran’ where he shuffles slowly towards his car.

Why is the Queens Diamond Jubilee 2012 causing such an
uproar in 2021 ?

The British Honours System Cartoon by Ben Jennings.