Pam Jarvis

@drpam.bsky.social

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#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator. ‘On Time’ News and Fiction writing blog at:
https://ontimesorg.wordpress.com/

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 17d

It’s 2033; climate change is progressing and world leaders are still arguing. 19 year old Dylan and his generation engage in angry, desperate, illegal protest. Their future looks grim… until a mysterious time traveller makes Dylan an intriguing offer. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Past time for eco: what net zero is, and why we need it

A novelist imagines a near-future world that fails to meet net zero, exploring climate collapse, loss and hope through future generations

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 32m

If anyone wants to know what Gibb was actually ‘like’, this Twitter exchange is a great cameo. Writing the alt text for the screenshot was fun, too! #EduSky

Nick Gibb’s apparent belief that 5 year olds can magically understand what is in the minds of their adult teachers

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 36m

‘How I destroyed England’s state education system 2010 to 2024’ by Nick Gibb. Ummm… think I’ll give it a miss. But the article is a great read #EduSky. @joehanley.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Gibb it a rest! A review of Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons

Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons aims to defend his ministerial legacy, but instead reads like a desperate attempt to rewrite England’s education failures

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Reposted by Pam Jarvis

Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 2h

I should have been clearer. When I say the business model isn't working, I mean two things ...
1. It's not working for democracy.
2. Journalists are required to be ever more sensational in their headlines and comments in order to get readers to jump over the paywall.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3h

However, the article above was in a free access publication. @bylinesnetwork.co.uk relies on donations to publish articles like this. It’s been remarkably successful thus far! yorkshirebylines.co.uk/the-yorkshir...

About us

Yorkshire Bylines is a not-for-profit regional online newspaper that supports citizen journalism. Our aim is to publish well-written, fact-based articles and opinion pieces on subjects that are of int...

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 5h

We used to call them ‘the mirror world BeeGees.’ This is what happened to people who came to Nick Gibb’s attention (me included). My opinion hasn’t changed (for the record!) #EduSky

Revealed: UK government keeping files on education critics’ social media activity

An Observer investigation finds DfE tried to cancel conference with ‘unsuitable’ speakers – and experts who criticised state education policy had files kept on online posts

www.theguardian.com

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 5h

Great episode from the @newsagents.bsky.social especially education people who can see what Robbie Gibb was doing at the BBC while his brother Nick was on a similar mission at the DFE. #EduSky

Inside the BBC: What really went on

YouTube video by The News Agents

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Reposted by Nikki Fairchild

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 6h

The ECHR was drafted after WWII in an attempt to protect Europe from totalitarian states, such as those that had caused its near-destruction between 1935 and 1945. It predates the European Union and is separate from it. So as it passes its 75th year, why do some politicians want to abandon it?

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 6h

Maybe our culture should try and do a bit more ‘adulting’ so we’re not as vulnerable to comic book journalism? (Coincidentally, my Twitter exchange with Robbie Gibb’s brother, ex-schools minister Nick Gibb is in this!).

Kidulthood: how Britain has been infantilised

Have social divisions between adults and children diminished over the 21st century? Dr Pam Jarvis considers the evidence

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 6h

The problem for all news production nowadays is people demand click bait sensational entertainment from it, and editors have been pushed towards that in competition for readers/ viewers/ listeners. It’s an impossible situation for the Beeb as it’s publicly funded and its charter precludes this.

Reposted by Pam Jarvis

Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 8h

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

By Dr Pam Jarvis

@drpam.bsky.social

Remembrance: 75 years of the ECHR

The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) celebrates its 75th birthday this month – like all elders, it has a lifetime of wisdom to share

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Reposted by Alison Phipps, Pam Jarvis

Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17h

This is a genuinely intolerable reality…

Instead of some proportion from much of the British media class, we are treated to the tragicomic absurdity of a former British prime minister willing to admonish the national broadcaster and demand the resignation of its Director General, all in the name of defending Donald Trump's reputation for truth-telling. But it's worse than that- it is a textbook example of how populists win. We have the ridiculous carnival of Donald Trump and Boris Johnson, of all people, admonishing the BBC for its lack of integrity. And they can get away with it, because no-one expects anything from them and yet we expect everything from the people and places who actually give a damn.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, totally agree @eddavey.libdems.org.uk

The first step towards saving our precious BBC: remove Robbie Gibb from the board | Ed Davey

The BBC belongs to all of us, and it is under attack as never before. The government must defend it from its enemies, within and without, says Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey

www.theguardian.com

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 20h

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

The truth about impartiality at the BBC

And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

open.substack.com

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 21h

I should never allow myself to be disappointed with social media, should I? Maybe just be grateful Blue Sky is better than ‘the other place.’

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 21h

If those bones are the little Princes’, social media haters will be out in force. No point explaining we’d still have no proof whatsoever that Richard either did it or ordered it. They’d just see a target to have go at. I’m bemused at those who jumped in on this thread without reading the article! 🙄

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

I must say, I was thinking of him when I was writing the article, as it was all unfolding then.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

Please read the article.

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Craigie 🇵🇸 🚩☮️🔻Proudly Un-British @craigsmive.bsky.social · 1d

Dodgy donors for a dodgy party.

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

Chris Packham destroys Reform over its dodgy donors, live on the BBC

Laura Kuenssberg did her best job of defending Reform in the face of Chris Packham shockingly... telling the truth about its donors

www.thecanary.co

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

And the article also makes it clear that I am not, and never have endorsed changing the museum in Leicester in any way at all. Whether my predictions for the near future pan out or not remains to be seen. If they do, I won’t have to rewrite the article!

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

OK, he was the last King from the house of York, and the job he did for most of his life was administering Northern England for his brother. The article explains this. And we’ll never know what he thought, or what he did otherwise (esp. with respect to the nephews). It’s a great ‘discuss’ topic.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

*Everyone* needs to stop spinning. Especially the BBC who forged a worldwide reputation for reliability when they took their mission statement (inform, educate and entertain) rather more seriously than they do now. &when western democracies elected serious statesmen rather than reality media stars.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

The spirit of their charter is to report the news as it is and stay out of party politics. Although irritating, this is a reminder that we (all ‘sides’) are drowning in spin in order to tell simple stories in a complex world, and that the whole merry go round needs to stop.

Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott , and 2 more Richard S.J. Tol, Steve Peers, Andrew Scott, Leigh Sparks, Pam Jarvis

The i Paper @theipaper.com · 1d

🔴 Breaking I Davie faced mounting criticism that a Panorama documentary misled viewers by editing a speech by Donald Trump

➡️ Read more: trib.al/I0iw7aP

Reposted by Pam Jarvis

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 1d

UPDATE: Donald Trump is so hellbent on denying people SNAP that he went all the way to the Supreme Court to block benefits.

Now Trump is trying to bully states into TAKING BACK payments they already made to families.

It’s chaos for the sake of cruelty.

Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 4d

Donald Trump’s war on SNAP.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a mystery, isn’t it? Unless they are in broad agreement with the previous shower.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Johnson’s crony directors and client journalists should have been cleaned out of the BBC within the first year. Very disappointing that they weren’t. @bylinetimes.bsky.social