Sergei Gotsmanov

What people do not take into account is the fact that he had been repeatedly burgled. The police had done nothing to protect him and inevitably he snapped - how can you possibly tolerate the level of abuse that he had to and sit back and do nothing. When the law is redundant you take your own action.

I agree. Without patronising it shows how far we have come as a nation.

All the people I know tip their taxi driver.

You put too much faith in Science. Science changes regularly it evolves as does our understanding of the world itself. I mean do you really believe that the figure of -18 is accurate? How on earth do they know? It is all estimation, formulas and assumptions. In all probability it is way out.

He never hit that woman... ...he pushed her ones and twos.

I approve of that attitude from a teacher but not from a parent. You are both a parent and a teacher.

I believe it is a basic right to do everything to give your own children the best start in life.

I did not share his views but I admired his tenacity to express his opinion and the dedication and passion to which he got his message across. Most of all I took pride in the fact that for the most part he was allowed to do it in our country.

I nearly called my daughter Sophie. Is that not a pretty bigoted attitude? Is the German model not based on grading students?

Brian Haw reprsented everything that makes Britain great. RIP

Come on Dune, I think what the Tories did to the mining communities was not something to be celebrated. These were good people with good values and the situation should have been handled less ruthlessly.

I am sure you would agree that numbers are easier to interpret.

I am not so sure that it is open to question. There is a political consensus that something has to be done.

Ed Milliband has been very quiet on this as well.

So you really cannot see that the pension system going forward is unaffordable? Sadly Prudence did not just raid our private sector pensions he never saved money for public sector pensions.

GDP is not take home pay.

No!

Why should private sector workers have to work to 67 and public sector workers work until they are 60. That is unfair and unjustifiable.

You miss the point. The private sector is the wealth creator.

Good on you. It is people like you that drive the economy.

Detention for you Thorpey. I was always told that bad language was for people who had poor vocabulary.

They rip the tax payer off because they are funded by the public sector and are not accountable enough. I cannot dispute your figures but I did read somewhere that virtually no teachers have ever been sacked for incompetence. Anyway you should spend your long holidays writing a book on your experiences because it would be a good read. Being a Daily Mail reader it is just the sort of thing that would interest; middle class family man teacher locked up for hooliganism. I am actually serious.

Its about job security in the public sector compared to the private sector.

Lybia - I hope you don't teach Geography.