Titbits – Lording it up

◆ Announcing its latest recruits, the most recent Mossbourne newsletter crows: “We are thrilled to share the news that alumni Ms Gaiya Alma and Ms Zeynap Celik, both of whom attended Mossbourne Community Academy as students, will return as teachers this coming September.”
However, the two appear on LinkedIn as Gaye Alma and Zeynep Celik Kocak. Strange that, at Mossbourne, “where learning is the norm”, whoever scribed this gushing blurb has not yet fully mastered the craft of speling.

◆ The Town Hall’s proposed landlord licensing scheme will fine those who preside over substandard conditions. Readers might be thinking, ‘Is this the same council that was recently dragged over the coals by the national housing watchdog?’ “We are absolutely committed to holding ourselves to the same high standards that we would expect other landlords to work to,” Hackney’s mayor told the Citizen. In other words, do as we say, not as we (currently) do!