Double gold for Amy Hunt - she's such a consistent athlete. Incredible mentality. A real shot at being the first person to get four golds at one European Championships.
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Lead Practitioner & 2ic Maths. FCCT, Chartered Teacher. LSE+ Work Group Lead, NCETM Mastery Specialist and PD Lead. MA in Expert Teaching. ECT mentor. CCT Research Champion. Steplab Accredited Coaching Lead UK🎓 #MathsEd #UKMathsChat
The highest temperature in the UK in 1976 was 35.9C (96.6F) in Cheltenham on 3 July. So far in 2026, the UK has recorded 5 days above 35.9C including today's peak of 38.1C (100.5F). In 1976, the UK recorded 14 days of 30°C or higher. So far, 2026 has had 35 days of 30°C plus. An all-time record.
Farage is an old Alleynian son of a stockbroker, former |City trader and hedge fund bro, whose mythos was largely created by the BBC. He's right: vote against the establishment. Vote Binface.
Playing tennis today with a group I don't know well and we started talking about small boats and there's just so many misconceptions (like they get normal benefits, that they can work if they want etc...) These were smart professional people who read the news.
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
“Primaries are a rare example of an English public policy success. We risk undermining that success by making them compensate for state failures elsewhere.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Could you predict which children will be Neets? No – and it’s unfair to ask that of teachers | Daisy Christodoulou
The idea of government adviser Alan Milburn sounds laudable. But it’s asking too much of a system already struggling to meet society’s demands, says education writer Daisy Christodoulou
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If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.
Despair is not just wrong. It's irrational. Things can change, at astonishing speed. In fact, the flip might be happening already. My article for the Guardian's climate support campaign. www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
Don’t despair about what’s happening to our planet. That’s what they want you to feel
There are social tipping points when the seemingly impossible suddenly becomes inevitable. Good journalism plays an essential role in helping drive these shifts and shows us how real change can happen
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Well, I had to ask, didn't I? Pros: it's smooth, without being overly analytic. Although individual support is guarded [bounded], taken together, it's total. Cons: can be a bit derivative, and while many norms are accepted, they rapidly decrease after a bit. Felt a bit dark [Schwartz]. #mathsky
Bede's World! Bede's World! Party time! Venerable!
5 key pieces of education research from the past year: @jasminenorden.bsky.social summarises the major studies schools should be aware of
The education year in research: 5 studies schools should know
Ofsted is pushing schools to become more evidence-informed, so here are five key studies from the past year and what they found
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We walked around the Llanberis Slate Mine (disused since the 60s). I was expecting Dr Who backdrops. It was much more postindustrial/deracinating. Like walking through Tarkovsky's Zona.
Watching our cosmic neighbourhood www.eso.org/public/image... Today’s Picture of the Week shows the stunning night sky above three of the Auxiliary Telescopes (ATs) at ESO’s Paranal Observatory, in Chile’s Atacama Desert
@labouruk.bsky.social This is an unnecessarily dichotomous way to view young people. At school the both have and lack a range of skills / knowledge to varying degrees. This rhetoric is clumsy at best.
Nick is right and there is also a very dangerous assumption here education is the same as training. Academic study is an inheritance owed to our young people and placing it in opposition to "technical skills" is a betrayal of great left wing thinkers such as Orwell and Tressell.
Niche@mr-n-wood.bsky.social · 2w ago@labouruk.bsky.social This is an unnecessarily dichotomous way to view young people. At school the both have and lack a range of skills / knowledge to varying degrees. This rhetoric is clumsy at best.
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Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude
NEET numbers are primarily a labour market issue not an education one. We know this as numbers have also risen in Wales and Scotland which have different education systems.
Jim Lauder@mrjlauder.bsky.social · 2w agoFirst, 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.
Introducing the "McCirce Meal" - you get a large pork burger and your Coke is spiked.
Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · 2w agofeel like McDonald's should have done some kind of lotus-themed Happy Meal tie-in for The Odyssey
Returning from a trip to Wales. Scorched foliage by the tracks. These fires forced us to take an unplanned night in Cardiff. (But at least we haven't lost our home as some have!)
They subpoenaed an 85-year-old man who has testified before Congress 250 times. They published his private diary first. Then screamed profanity at him for not talking. Six years of investigation. Zero charges. This is what having nothing looks like. www.JackHopkinsNow.com
This is surely curtains for Farage's political career. I don't think there's any coming back from it. I hope not, at any rate. Looks like there could be a strong basis for a criminal case as well. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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