Alex J-W
alexjw.bsky.social
Alex J-W
@alexjw.bsky.social
Maths educator. Often confused by the world. Follow me if you are interested in maths and stats education or professional development in general.
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The will of mainstream media to normalize Donald Trumps blatant racist remarks and bizarre behaviour is what’s killing the USA. Until ABC, NBC, and CBS start exposing his fabrications and insane rhetoric for what they are, you’re fucked.
February 7, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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If pouring one's love into a project matters, you can find pretty much all of mine in this Season 2 opener.

From Aeschylus to Blade Runner, Goethe to The Hulk, and Frankenstein to Musk, some stories are simply so cosmic they alter how we actually see the world.
🆕 PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire

One man; several contradictory myths.

Is he protector or disruptor? Genius or arsonist?

Season 2 of Podyssey kicks off with an absolute belter.

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PROMETHEUS: I Don't Want to Set The World On Fire
Podcast Episode · Alex Andreou's Podyssey · 08/02/2026 · 1h 28m
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February 8, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Were they the face, Hannibal and BA Barracus? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks.

He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger.

Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...
February 8, 2026 at 7:44 AM
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Undercover of other news this week, some horrifying information has come out about suicide rates among young trans people, along with some worrying political context. If you're not au fait with these issues, this is a great place to catch up.
I've written a blog aimed at cis ppl, on the recent revelations of rising trans suicide rates since NHS England removed gender affirming care for u18s, in particular about my involvement with trying to seek the truth and the trauma the gaslighting by Appleby, Streeting, Cass and the media causes.
Trans youth suicide - the truth we've always known. What it means to me and what I've been doing about it.
Last week Queer AF broke a story that revealed the suicide rate in trans under eighteens is around fourteen times higher than you might expect from census data.As the parent of Alice a trans woman who...
www.carolinelitman.com
February 7, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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Gordon Brown says there are systemic failings in our politics - paid lobbyists, corruption, MPs with second jobs etc

He argues we need far stronger ethics, transparency & anti-corruption powers.

Clive Lewis MP has written of the culture, the pull of money turning heads & corroding public service
Gifts, temptation and the colossal corrosion of politics
At Westminster, gifts and freebies aren’t simple goodwill, but rather part of the slow pull of money that turns heads, normalises privilege and corrodes public service
eastangliabylines.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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This is very true & also Trump is part of a far broader cross-national phenomenon of far right support surging in democracies that is clearly linked to the major global economic shocks of the last 20 years. Bad economic stuff creates a political opportunity structure for racists/xenophobes/fascists.
Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...
A screenshot from a video posted on Trump's Truth Social account: truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...
February 6, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Is anyone going to admit that the ‘privatise n public services because competition will raise the quality whilst lowering the cost was the biggest pile of absolute tosh since well the old trickle down nonsense. Why don’t people talk about privately run public services the way they talk about public
February 6, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Anyone fed up with the media and public kicking up a storm over Starmer’s foolish decision to give Mandelson the US ambassador job - a failure of judgement yes - but hardly a peep about an ever more draconian immigration policy or the failure to offer a credible industrial strategy?
February 6, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Their 'clever' political machinations are our cost of living, faced with populism, post-Brexit malaise and loss of income. Fed up with these types. He should have been sacked as soon as it was clear he'd pushed for Mandelson democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:21 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... just ignore anything he says - wait to see what he actually does
Donald Trump signals US support for Chagos handover deal
It comes after the US president suggested last month he could withdraw his support for the deal.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 5, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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February 4, 2026 at 12:50 PM
First they came for the billionaires and then…
Well the things seemed to get better and no one else was come for….
February 4, 2026 at 11:06 PM
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Mandelson revelations serve to bring into focus core failings of this government - most of all how little change there was. In public minds that was about all aspects of government, far beyond specific policies.
February 4, 2026 at 2:19 PM
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Bring Gordon Brown back until the end of the 2029 season.
February 4, 2026 at 1:13 PM
Buckle up BBC putting Farage under scrutiny! Oh no wait LK doing the Boris thing for Farage - flashes of honesty? Yeah about stuff that don’t matter lol. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
February 4, 2026 at 11:19 AM
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It is pointless trying to explain anything to a kleptomaniac using metaphors; they take things literally.
February 3, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Depending on the depth and nature of Epstein’s links to Russia and the Putin regime, any accusations of sharing restricted UK or EU information or documents with him may go from being serious security breaches to actively assisting a foreign agent in espionage.
February 3, 2026 at 6:34 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Trump is just like those debt collection agencies that send threatening letters over tiny claims but ratcheted up with potentially additional costs and ‘fines’ in the hope people will settle at a lower rate. If he does it to enough organisations enough will cough up to
Trump seeks $1bn in damages from Harvard
The announcement is the latest development in the White House's ongoing feud with the Ivy League institution.
www.bbc.co.uk
February 3, 2026 at 7:54 AM
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New resources for #ALevelMaths on the @meimaths.bsky.social website - we've updated the Casio graphical calculator tasks with instructions for the CG100 mei.org.uk/resource/int...
January 30, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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There’s the person who takes three pieces of pizza at the party because they think the pizza might run out.

Then there’s the person who takes only one piece for the exact same reason.

This goes a long way toward explaining who we are.
February 1, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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Stand by! Ajax - £6bn turkey or the answer to the British Army’s needs? A deep dive from me based on a factory visit and interviews with believers and detractors. Reports in print in this week’s Sunday Times and on video …
January 31, 2026 at 3:48 PM
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Oh but of course Marc Hauser was an Epstein pal. A fraud who faked his data. One of my very first R4 docs was on him and his work, on the evolution of morality. Other Harvard colleagues refused to comment, one trembling with fear when I asked him.
For those of us who were grad students at Harvard in the 1990s it’s interesting to read Marc Hauser’s correspondence with JE, through the lens of Hauser’s subsequent departure from Harvard bc of scientific misconduct.
February 1, 2026 at 1:13 PM
This is how excessively wealthy individuals and corporations are - that eye watering multimillion pound fines don’t bankrupt them!!
The GOP 'free speech' bros are absurdly hypocritical - supporting an administration that arrests journalists - but nevertheless the Commission's failure to publish the decision (or some version of it) on X's non-compliance with the Digital Service Act is obnoxious and probably unlawful. 1/
"Asked why the decision had not yet been published by the EU, European Commission spokesperson Thomas Regnier told Tech Policy Press that decisions can only be released after due diligence" and that process is depressingly slow, at times (researcher speaking) www.techpolicy.press/eu-decision-...
February 1, 2026 at 12:16 PM