@ged10.bsky.social
Would agree with this. Look around to what’s happening in this world.
Farrukh@implausibleblog.bsky.social · 7mo agoBaroness Hazarika, "This has been an absolutely shameful week for the Labour party" "This is a story about male power and a boys club" "Why was the Labour party so seduced by Mandelson?" "To me, it was about a male power structure"
This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents. Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract
Áine ☽𖤐☾@whoa-magic.lol · 7mo agoPeter Thiel warns the Antichrist and apocalypse are linked to the ‘end of modernity’ currently happening—and cites Greta Thunberg as a driving example fortune.com/2026/02/04/p... *Not satire.
A 5-yrr-old boy and his father who were detained by ICE and taken to a concentration camp in Texas have returned to Minneapolis after a federal judge ordered their release. Rep Joaquín Castro (D-TX) shared images of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father leaving the ICE camp early Sunday morning.
Five-year-old boy and dad who were seized by ICE return home
The father and son returned to their home in Minnesota after being held at an ICE detention center since January 20
independent.co.uk
Carlos Alcaraz says he’s learned to appreciate every second of the life he’s living, whether he’s lifting trophies or not ❤
There should be a support group for the parents of goalkeepers!
a man is covering his face with his hands while wearing a watch and a ring .
Alt: a man is covering his face with his hands while wearing a watch and a ring .
media.tenor.com
The incoming Dutch government plans to continue Ukraine support at current levels of at least 3 billion euros per year. However, it will be a minority cabinet and will need to find a majority in the House of Representatives to approve its plans. #Ukraine
❗️Exclusive: More than a thousand schools with poor outcomes slipped through the net of the government’s RISE low-attainment crackdown, exposing a 'significant gap' in its latest bid to boost results
‘Schoolboy error’ as smaller schools escape RISE crackdown
The DfE has not contacted some primaries potentially needing support because data goes unpublished
schoolsweek.co.uk
Farage’s Reform UK likes to pitch itself as the party of “freedom” – free speech, free thinking, free markets. But a very different picture emerges when you follow the growing constellation of Reform politicians & advisors who are orbiting the authoritarian regime of Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán
The Farage-Orbán network
Inside Reform’s deepening ties to Hungary’s autocratic regime...
writesbright.substack.com
I don't know how anyone in the UK can see what's happening in the US and then still want to vote for Farage
RANT ALERT! OK. Fine. But who is going to write this and how it is going to be delivered? We just cannot have more of the rubbish that has been churned out in the last few years and is now being rewritten and redesigned. 1/4 www.tes.com/magazine/new...
DfE: All teachers will get SEND and inclusion training
DfE announces a new expectation on training teachers to support pupils with SEND, with £200m funding for new courses
tes.com
The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.
This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.
I am writing. Part 1. The tragedy of hidden schools, in hidden communities meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/03/p...
Part 1.
My writing, I have decided, will include reflections, thoughts and ideas about education. But, I cannot ignore the situation I am in (see previous writing) and so, I will also be adding bits and pi…
meganjanedixon.co.uk
This is absolutely brilliant from Leah! Listen in for a gem of wisdom every few minutes and examples of classroom application from ‘Opening Doors’ @juliesargent.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @joshuaseigal.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social
@thinktalkleah.bsky.social · 8mo agoAmbition for all is the Curriculum and assessment review headline - get ahead and have a listen! @openingdoors.bsky.social www.theteacheras.com/podcasts/ric...
"Too often, KS3 is treated as a rehearsal for GCSEs rather than a stage with its own intellectual purpose." @marymyatt.bsky.social asks: Can we turn Key Stage 3 into the ambitious years? marymyatt.substack.com/p/can-we-tur...
Can we turn KS3 into the ambitious years?
Well hello there, and welcome to update #166!
marymyatt.substack.com
I'm starting to get some *wonderful* messages about Making Change Stick now that school leaders have had the chance to read it 😍 Check out my pod chat with Ollie Lovell here: open.spotify.com/episode/1gxX... And check out the free taster course here: makingchangestick.co
just in case someone can let me have the link to importance of music notation - explicit teaching required (+ practice) implicit teaching then explicit + practice.
Oracy - tremendously important, particularly so since Covid. But puzzled that extent of v.poor reading, particularly in ie Islington didn't lead to more evidence-informed, inexpensive, targetted solutions.
@alexjquigley.bsky.social Great admirer of the clarity and detail of your writing but believe v. strongly in simplicity + economy. I don't like to use bluesky to promote personal decisions but I am campaigning to replace EEF mix of trad and progressive.
Wes Streeting with the help of Alan ‘got rich in private healthcare’ Milburn, his adviser, are proposing throwing far more public money to the private sector. We can all celebrate making Private Equity bosses much much richer whilst we suffer. This isn’t change, this is the Tories on steroids.
38 Degrees@38degrees.bsky.social · 11mo agoWhy is NHS funding going to private pockets?
In July 2025, Gibb's impartiality was again questioned in an open letter from over 400 media figures to the BBC "we are concerned that individual w. close ties to Jewish Chronicle … has a say in the BBC's editorial decisions in any capacity, incl. decision not to broadcast Gaza. Implications huge.
The legislation is so ludicrous, even the police look embarrassed when called upon to enforce it. Hundreds of elderly people charged under anti-terrorism laws because of a cardboard sign.
Patrick Dunleavy@patrickdunleavy.bsky.social · 10mo agoTerror definition too broad, Starmer to be told New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
No. 39 in my #FavePicturebooks25 is “Good Golden Sun” by @brendanwenzel.bsky.social A simple idea, tracing the sun’s journey becomes something brilliant. It shows how energy moves through the world and give everything life, and visually it zings. Great science. Fab stuff. #PicturebookPage
Once more for the weekend long read crowd 👇
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 11mo agoAll Oxford’s news in the Clarion newsletter. Including: 🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen 🚌 Congestion charge means more buses 🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant 🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews 📖 Our new books section ❄️ Silly gritter names And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Wonderful article from @alexjquigley.bsky.social (although #EEF has done brilliant work it has also included work of dubious/harmful worth and is massively expensive)
“We’re doing things that kind of go against what we [Holder/Obama] talked about...“we have to preserve our democracy if ultimately we’re going to heal it.” via Washington Post 22/10/2-25.
