Darren Macey
@darrenmacey.bsky.social
Newly minted maths ed lecturer, PhD student, fledgling left-wing standup. Co-author ‘teaching statistics’ http://tinyurl.com/ya6afzcc he/his
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*This is a post for teachers in and around London.*
UCL is looking for schools who would be interested to find out more about the new Secondary Maths Teacher Degree Apprenticeship.
We have loads of students looking for a place but need more schools to work with us & employ them. /1
UCL is looking for schools who would be interested to find out more about the new Secondary Maths Teacher Degree Apprenticeship.
We have loads of students looking for a place but need more schools to work with us & employ them. /1
Very funny…also excellent use of alt text… 😂😂
February 15, 2026 at 11:57 AM
Very funny…also excellent use of alt text… 😂😂
Cambridge folks…I have been hosting a comedy night since August last year and figure it’s time to break cover and come out publicly 😬.
It’s on the third Tuesday of the month and you would be most welcome…it has a loose science and politics theme night because…well, you’ve see my posts 😂
It’s on the third Tuesday of the month and you would be most welcome…it has a loose science and politics theme night because…well, you’ve see my posts 😂
February 15, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Cambridge folks…I have been hosting a comedy night since August last year and figure it’s time to break cover and come out publicly 😬.
It’s on the third Tuesday of the month and you would be most welcome…it has a loose science and politics theme night because…well, you’ve see my posts 😂
It’s on the third Tuesday of the month and you would be most welcome…it has a loose science and politics theme night because…well, you’ve see my posts 😂
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Sunshine ☀️ at Fratton Park!
Big game for #Pompey
Sheffield United are the visitors, live commentary on BBC Radio Solent with myself, Glen Little and Ian Wilding
Big game for #Pompey
Sheffield United are the visitors, live commentary on BBC Radio Solent with myself, Glen Little and Ian Wilding
February 14, 2026 at 1:10 PM
Match abandoned due to players having to squint 😂😂😂
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To celebrate #ValentinesDay I have invented a new type of graph: the heartbreak chart. It is a proportional representation showing inequality between two variables - here is an example showing women vs men CEOs of UK FTSE350 companies (2025). What do you think?
February 14, 2026 at 11:46 AM
To celebrate #ValentinesDay I have invented a new type of graph: the heartbreak chart. It is a proportional representation showing inequality between two variables - here is an example showing women vs men CEOs of UK FTSE350 companies (2025). What do you think?
So kinda the same point @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been making for ages and getting crucified for by the ‘sensibles’
UK must move away from US and towards a 'more European NATO', Keir Starmer to say at defence summit
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
www.itv.com/news/2026-02...
February 14, 2026 at 9:05 AM
So kinda the same point @zackpolanski.bsky.social has been making for ages and getting crucified for by the ‘sensibles’
I’m not an expert but this seems suggestive of either an anxiety disorder or internalised prejudice/expectation bias …what it definitely isn’t is evidence of London being unsafe
Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.
February 14, 2026 at 9:01 AM
I’m not an expert but this seems suggestive of either an anxiety disorder or internalised prejudice/expectation bias …what it definitely isn’t is evidence of London being unsafe
Good news…but it’s still illegal to show support for Palestine Action despite the ruling because the government plans to appeal…so be careful everyone.
A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Good news…but it’s still illegal to show support for Palestine Action despite the ruling because the government plans to appeal…so be careful everyone.
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Dear BBC sports commentators: your misogyny is showing in your repeated references to Bruce Mouat ‘being happy to be back with his boys’ & playing better now he’s ’with the lads.’ The implication being that a man playing his professional sport professionally with a *woman* is distracting.
a man wearing a blue adidas jacket stands in front of a large screen that says milano cortina
ALT: a man wearing a blue adidas jacket stands in front of a large screen that says milano cortina
media.tenor.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 AM
Dear BBC sports commentators: your misogyny is showing in your repeated references to Bruce Mouat ‘being happy to be back with his boys’ & playing better now he’s ’with the lads.’ The implication being that a man playing his professional sport professionally with a *woman* is distracting.
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Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 🔭 🟰
I have taken the first 100 Fellows recently announced by the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and considered them by pronouns. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
I have taken the first 100 Fellows recently announced by the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and considered them by pronouns. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
February 11, 2026 at 5:03 PM
Happy International Day of Women and Girls in Science! 🧪 🔭 🟰
I have taken the first 100 Fellows recently announced by the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and considered them by pronouns. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
I have taken the first 100 Fellows recently announced by the Academy for the Mathematical Sciences and considered them by pronouns. What do you notice? What do you wonder?
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The Times, eh
The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised | A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture | Marie Shrewsbury
The real Tavistock Clinic scandal: 1,000 court cases that never materialised
A FoI request for the data behind the media hysteria over the Tavistock Clinic presents quite a different picture
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 10, 2026 at 7:46 PM
The Times, eh
But will we get to the point where any of the following get noticed:
1) the forde report
2) ‘the labour files’ documentary
3) the book ‘the fraud’*
*some of 3) is getting a little bit of noticing but not too much…
1) the forde report
2) ‘the labour files’ documentary
3) the book ‘the fraud’*
*some of 3) is getting a little bit of noticing but not too much…
It’s not quite November 2021 levels of Noticing Things* but Things are centrally being Noticed
February 10, 2026 at 6:17 PM
But will we get to the point where any of the following get noticed:
1) the forde report
2) ‘the labour files’ documentary
3) the book ‘the fraud’*
*some of 3) is getting a little bit of noticing but not too much…
1) the forde report
2) ‘the labour files’ documentary
3) the book ‘the fraud’*
*some of 3) is getting a little bit of noticing but not too much…
I always find that when someone tells me that I am strong and united it is definitely a straightforward statement of fact and not, for example, a sign of someone desperately trying to hold everything together while being totally out of their depth…
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer told his Cabinet that they were "strong and united" this morning
"The Prime Minister said that the whole of the Labour Party wants Anas Sarwar to become First Minister and will fight for a Labour Government in Scotland"
"The Prime Minister said that the whole of the Labour Party wants Anas Sarwar to become First Minister and will fight for a Labour Government in Scotland"
February 10, 2026 at 4:56 PM
I always find that when someone tells me that I am strong and united it is definitely a straightforward statement of fact and not, for example, a sign of someone desperately trying to hold everything together while being totally out of their depth…
He’s such a weasel 😂
Probably Prime Minister Weasel come May when the press work to get their chosen one in to replace Starmer after the local elections
Probably Prime Minister Weasel come May when the press work to get their chosen one in to replace Starmer after the local elections
“Let’s give Keir that chance. Let him set out how he’s going to lead us forward” says Health Secretary Wes Streeting
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 AM
He’s such a weasel 😂
Probably Prime Minister Weasel come May when the press work to get their chosen one in to replace Starmer after the local elections
Probably Prime Minister Weasel come May when the press work to get their chosen one in to replace Starmer after the local elections
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A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn
February 9, 2026 at 11:02 PM
A good reminder from @billybragg.bsky.social about what Starmer once pretended to be - always worth remembering he threw this all away and managed to get fewer votes than Corbyn
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How access journalism works.
Every political editor/correspondent falls in love with the SpAd who provides them with scoops.
Until, inevitably with McBride/Timothy/Cummings/McSweeney, the SpAd's demise becomes the next scoop.
Rinse and repeat.
Ad nauseam
Every political editor/correspondent falls in love with the SpAd who provides them with scoops.
Until, inevitably with McBride/Timothy/Cummings/McSweeney, the SpAd's demise becomes the next scoop.
Rinse and repeat.
Ad nauseam
February 9, 2026 at 9:28 PM
How access journalism works.
Every political editor/correspondent falls in love with the SpAd who provides them with scoops.
Until, inevitably with McBride/Timothy/Cummings/McSweeney, the SpAd's demise becomes the next scoop.
Rinse and repeat.
Ad nauseam
Every political editor/correspondent falls in love with the SpAd who provides them with scoops.
Until, inevitably with McBride/Timothy/Cummings/McSweeney, the SpAd's demise becomes the next scoop.
Rinse and repeat.
Ad nauseam
Given the content of these messages its feels like Starmer hasn’t really been left with a choice but to reshuffle Streeting to the backbenches…he’s voluntarily put in the public domain evidence of him chatting with the famous paedo’s mate about how shit the govt he is part of is…baffling stuff!
BREAKING: As if today hasn’t been fraught enough Wes Streeting has just published his private WhatsApp messages with Peter Mandelson in an apparent attempt to draw a line under their friendship
February 9, 2026 at 9:36 PM
Given the content of these messages its feels like Starmer hasn’t really been left with a choice but to reshuffle Streeting to the backbenches…he’s voluntarily put in the public domain evidence of him chatting with the famous paedo’s mate about how shit the govt he is part of is…baffling stuff!
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This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.
February 9, 2026 at 7:05 PM
This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.
Work life balance is a nonsense says wealthy man who can pick and choose exactly what he want to do and also has his trips funded by wealthy donors and crypto-scammers
BREAKING: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home and the focus on work-life balance
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
"People aren't more productive working from home - it's a load of nonsense”
Whatever you do JUST DON’T VOTE REFORM!
February 9, 2026 at 6:01 PM
Work life balance is a nonsense says wealthy man who can pick and choose exactly what he want to do and also has his trips funded by wealthy donors and crypto-scammers
Because she can’t run for leadership until HMRC finish checking her tax affairs and give her a clean bill of health… best case for Rayner is the Starmer clings on until May
February 9, 2026 at 5:28 PM
Because she can’t run for leadership until HMRC finish checking her tax affairs and give her a clean bill of health… best case for Rayner is the Starmer clings on until May
Breaking…steve reed was part of the McSweeney led Labour Together crew who picked Starmer in the first place…so of course he backs him…
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 PM
Breaking…steve reed was part of the McSweeney led Labour Together crew who picked Starmer in the first place…so of course he backs him…
So much noticing happening, so little time!
It is deeply depressing watching the media continuously go through cycles of ignoring massive malfeasance and corruption to put their guy in charge &then, when the narrative changes manically start reporting things that were in the public domain all along
It is deeply depressing watching the media continuously go through cycles of ignoring massive malfeasance and corruption to put their guy in charge &then, when the narrative changes manically start reporting things that were in the public domain all along
a reminder that Tim Allan, who quit Starmer's Downing St today, previously spun for....not only Kazakhstan and Qatar but also Vladimir Putin’s government
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
www.ft.com/content/a0a8...
From Blair to Putin to Starmer: PR chief Tim Allan’s CV
Former New Labour spin-doctor has faced criticism over his choice of clients, including Russia’s government
www.ft.com
February 9, 2026 at 3:10 PM
So much noticing happening, so little time!
It is deeply depressing watching the media continuously go through cycles of ignoring massive malfeasance and corruption to put their guy in charge &then, when the narrative changes manically start reporting things that were in the public domain all along
It is deeply depressing watching the media continuously go through cycles of ignoring massive malfeasance and corruption to put their guy in charge &then, when the narrative changes manically start reporting things that were in the public domain all along
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I think we can say there’s definitely Noticing Things going on now, at the BBC. You might have got this stuff piecemeal here and there but now they’re just laying it out in blunt terms.
February 8, 2026 at 10:52 PM
I think we can say there’s definitely Noticing Things going on now, at the BBC. You might have got this stuff piecemeal here and there but now they’re just laying it out in blunt terms.
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Keir Starmer's spokesman won't say why his Comms Director Tim Allan resigned, when Starmer first knew he was resigning, or whether he asked him to step down.
Also won't say whether evidence has been found suggesting an ongoing relationship between Allan and Mandelson
Also won't say whether evidence has been found suggesting an ongoing relationship between Allan and Mandelson
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Keir Starmer's spokesman won't say why his Comms Director Tim Allan resigned, when Starmer first knew he was resigning, or whether he asked him to step down.
Also won't say whether evidence has been found suggesting an ongoing relationship between Allan and Mandelson
Also won't say whether evidence has been found suggesting an ongoing relationship between Allan and Mandelson
Continuity Mandleson at that too…
Streeting might be a very different beast to Starmer, but he feels like the continuity candidate. That doesn’t feel like a strength in these circumstances.
February 9, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Continuity Mandleson at that too…
And always twirling…
February 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
And always twirling…