What a disgusting comment. There is NOTHING "hard left" about wanting to protect people's lives. You, like @BorisJohnson & @Keir_Starmer haven't thought this through 1/

@afneil You clearly don’t care about people’s lives; you just want the chance to have a go at a trade union. FYI, schools need to be made SAFE b4 reopening. 2/
@afneil You must’ve seen the figures: Covid cases increased via schools after reopening in September & cases are now increasing in nurseries, left open since Xmas. 3/
@afneil Why hurt or kill more people? Ensure safety FIRST. 4/
@afneil How to make schools SAFE? a) Vaccinate all school staff & all students, with both vaccine shots. That'll take us until May as second shots are only being given after 3 months. 5/
@afneil b) Set up smaller classes so social distancing is possible, with a shift system, morning & afternoon school, 6/
@afneil c) arrange deep cleaning after every class & d) provide adequate ppe for staff & students. 7/
@afneil e) set up a proper test & trace system & quarantine/self-isolation with furlough funding for families so parents can stay off work to isolate. 8/
@afneil Unless all these things & more are in place, schools will not be safe to reopen & the NEU is 100% right to say so. 9/

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Tolstoy, found it both stupid and immoral. It is stupid because every patriot holds his own country to be the best, which obviously negates all other countries.+

It is immoral because it enjoins us to promote our country’s interests at the expense of all other countries, employing any means, including war. It is thus at odds with the most basic rule of morality, which tells us not to do to others what we would not want them to do to us+

My sincere belief is that patriotism of a personal nature, which does not impede on personal and physical liberties of any other, is not only welcome but perhaps somewhat needed.

But isn’t adherence to a more humane code of life much better than nationalistic patriotism?+

Göring said, “people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”+

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