It means the equivalent of French/Spanish/German A-Level which is roughly B2 on the CEFR

And hence the incoherence. It does amaze me how anyone can become leader of a major party without an ideological project. It seems antithetical to the idea of politics

I feel like this would be good for the centre-right or the Tories too and it surprises me that it doesn't exist yet as you'd have thought they'd be scrambling a bit more for attention

PS very interesting read!

How would you define "the Starmer project"? It seems, in the popular conception, to either not exist or be so incoherent as to not exist, but I would be interested to know your thoughts.

It's not even like I want them to raise income tax, but to go about it like this is so awful

Have been trying to think of the correct response to this news and I think this is it

I like the bit where he says "my [connecting] Aer Lingus flight was operated by BA" so he's never heard of codeshares or assumes EI operate flights from Heathrow to Paris?? Don't really understand how you "accidentally" manage to mess up booking a flight this much

Nice!

Ooh what route(s)?

GCSE history has depth studies that can be interwar Germany (I did that one), US civil rights or I think something cold war. My GCSE coursework was also required to be on apartheid South Africa. We also did the great depression and new deal in America at some point