The uncoordinated expansion of academies and free schools, with sixth forms as jewels in their crowns, has made it impossible to create sensible post-16 provision.
In an effort to improve the cash flow at the Hand and Flowers – despite the fact it had won a Michelin star the year after opening – they renovated a couple of cottages across the car park where diners could stay (as anyone who has eaten the perfect, trencherman's food at the pub would attest, this looks a profoundly sensible post-prandial option).
If the United States is to play a leadership role in international negotiations for a sensible post-Kyoto international climate regime, the country must begin to move towards an effective domestic policy - with legislation that is timed and structured to coordinate with the emerging post-Kyoto climate regime.
Stepping back from the specific policy design question, the broader argument has been made (indeed until a few years ago I was among those making it) that there should be no serious movement on a U.S. domestic climate policy until a meaningful and sensible (post-Kyoto) international agreement has been negotiated and ratified.
In fact the neighbourhood policy produced by Lady Ashton and the Commission was sensible, offering post-dictatorial Arab states the Three Ms: mobility, markets and money.
While the prospect of direct democracy through computers is alluring and while the Web is a wonderful enhancement to political give-and-take, the Internet is not always known for producing sensible blog posts and chat streams.
Chicago became Chicago and so bets at the peak of the Chicago market were, ex post, sensible.
So what should be done?At first blush, it seems sensible to allow the post office the leeway it needs to "work like a real business".
Despite being pegged inside their own half, in front of their own posts – "Not sensible play this by Wigan, normally a side would take the ball away from the posts to avoid any goal kicks," said French – Wigan, inspired again by Kenny, broke away to score a try worthy of the jubilee Wembley final.
By contrast, Law and Justice's populism attracts the poor but patriotic who feel that the past 15 years have been grubby, harsh and disappointing.That promised the best possible outcome: Poland's first strong, sensible government in its post-communist history.
