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Graham

@grahamsutton.bsky.social

Scientist/ audiologist. Love cats. East Yorkshire.

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Aylwyn Scally@aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 2d ago

There's a central aspect of the Arday scandal that people are skirting around or ignoring. This isn't really a Cambridge or LJMU-specific problem. This is a problem with the field, education sociology, and hence with the departments involved at these and other institutions.

CharlieTurner@charlieturner66.bsky.social · 3d ago

You are neglecting - badly - the fact that a figure like Arday would have no chance of reaching this position at Cambridge in history, law, economics, physics, engineering or many other disciplines. The problem lies with sociology, and especially the sociology of education.

Jim Lauder@mrjlauder.bsky.social · 3d ago

As it stands, it's looking like children like mine will get labeled, put in a separate room and onto a separate pathway from 14, where there are lots of question marks over all of that. I'm not hopeful because school leaders will take easy options to game accountability as we've seen in the past.

James Ball@jamesrball.com · 3d ago

I can understand why Lucy Powell doesn't frame the issue this way, but it would be useful if the wider Labour world did: the current NEET crisis exists in part (and is being made worse by) multiple very deliberate policy choices made in the first two years of this government.

Jim Lauder@mrjlauder.bsky.social · 3d ago

First, on this bit, Reeves and Starmer are culprits more so than Tory edu ministers - min wage hikes, emp NI, new workers' rights (all stuff I agree with in the abstract) all piled on at once... Yes, you're going to get a NEETs issue. That's pretty basic economics.

Lucy Powell blames Tory education policy for NEETs levels
callthistea.bsky.social@callthistea.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trevor Phillips one of the architects of the Equality Act: “We never imagined that there would be people peddling the fantasy that you can just make up what sex you are. And it never occurred to me that people who make decisions on these things would be engulfed by this fantasy”.

Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 2w ago

Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)

'I can't afford to turn the oven on': 7.4m households struggling to buy essentials

As Andy Burnham promises “breathing space” for households, millions are unable to buy items such as clothing, heating and food.

bbc.co.uk

Heloise Dunlop@hcdunlop.bsky.social · 2w ago

Good thread from @gavinfreeguard.com about the decision to split DSIT. It struggled with its ability to influence (esp. as digital centre of govt) across govt, hiring senior roles, and has just had a reorg with the move of GDS in 2024. But the new depts have big & more varied (& unrelated) briefs

Gavin Freeguard@gavinfreeguard.com · 2w ago

Incompatible systems. Different contractual terms. Working out how teams fit together. Turf wars over responsibilities. New arrangements bedding in. Stakeholders (again!) having to rebuild relationships. Etc Etc. Etc. Policy paralysis, delayed delivery, opportunity costs all the way down.

Oz Katerji@ozkaterji.bsky.social · 2w ago

Britain now has a foreign secretary whose position remains to this day that there should have been no military consequences towards the Assad regime for using nerve gas on children.

LS@vatskills.bsky.social · 2w ago

But insufficient staff on duty to respond in time. So 91 yr old had to endure wetting herself, on a trolley, multiple times, in a corridor full of other people all night. This is the #NHS now. It ain't going to be better when we all need it in a decade or so