@EllieERussell
@ellieerussell.bsky.social
Manchester high school science teacher since 1999…Still enjoying trying to get better at my job. Kids eh…? Never dull!
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
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This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety
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New post out:
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
Today we have a guest post from @ruthpatrick0.bsky.social on the abomination that is the two-child limit and why Labour need to scrap it ASAP.
Lots of data but also powerful testimony.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The worst social policy ever"
We have a couple of bonus guest posts over the next week.
open.substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety
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Said deep dive on this is here, thanks @oldandrewuk.bsky.social.
TL;DR: the headline numbers aren't plausible.
More research would be good on this topic. It would also be good to figure out what's happening here, as the underlying dataset is nationally important.
open.substack.com/pub/andrewol...
TL;DR: the headline numbers aren't plausible.
More research would be good on this topic. It would also be good to figure out what's happening here, as the underlying dataset is nationally important.
open.substack.com/pub/andrewol...
October 24, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Said deep dive on this is here, thanks @oldandrewuk.bsky.social.
TL;DR: the headline numbers aren't plausible.
More research would be good on this topic. It would also be good to figure out what's happening here, as the underlying dataset is nationally important.
open.substack.com/pub/andrewol...
TL;DR: the headline numbers aren't plausible.
More research would be good on this topic. It would also be good to figure out what's happening here, as the underlying dataset is nationally important.
open.substack.com/pub/andrewol...
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"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."
Brilliant. ~AA
Brilliant. ~AA
![1
Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area
2
Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction
3
Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it
Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…
4
Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely
[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over
5
Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat
[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster
Minister:
I understand your concerns…
6
Nurse:
Are you OK love?
Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters
7
Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian
[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]
Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love
8
Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to
[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]
9
Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR
[woman looks baffled]
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woman:
I just want a bus service
Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]
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October 20, 2025 at 8:40 AM
"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love."
Brilliant. ~AA
Brilliant. ~AA
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This is a welcome antidote to Jenrick’s bunkum by @zackpolanski.bsky.social
and the much-missed Benjamin Zephaniah
youtube.com/shorts/GHUKF...
and the much-missed Benjamin Zephaniah
youtube.com/shorts/GHUKF...
Zack Polanski heads to Benjamin Zephaniah's hometown after Robert Jenrick calls Handsworth "a slum"
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
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October 18, 2025 at 11:27 AM
This is a welcome antidote to Jenrick’s bunkum by @zackpolanski.bsky.social
and the much-missed Benjamin Zephaniah
youtube.com/shorts/GHUKF...
and the much-missed Benjamin Zephaniah
youtube.com/shorts/GHUKF...
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Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.
Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.
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The old Saudi brand was “austere theocracy,” but the new one is “fun, fun, fun, but still with beheading.” - brilliant piece with so many laugh out loud moments:
October 16, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The old Saudi brand was “austere theocracy,” but the new one is “fun, fun, fun, but still with beheading.” - brilliant piece with so many laugh out loud moments:
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Worth a read!
October 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Worth a read!
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Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
October 7, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown
#amindofmyown
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This is just incredible work form @greigarjohnson.bsky.social and pals: *this* is how you do HHGG.
Somebody please given them the budget (but, crucially, not *too much* of a budget) to do the rest, please. Please.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431...
Somebody please given them the budget (but, crucially, not *too much* of a budget) to do the rest, please. Please.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431...
Ford Prefect shows Arthur Dent The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy
YouTube video by Greig Johnson Making
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 9:06 AM
This is just incredible work form @greigarjohnson.bsky.social and pals: *this* is how you do HHGG.
Somebody please given them the budget (but, crucially, not *too much* of a budget) to do the rest, please. Please.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431...
Somebody please given them the budget (but, crucially, not *too much* of a budget) to do the rest, please. Please.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431...
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Strategy Grand Old Man, Lawrence freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social weighs in on the latest Russian provocations. Do read:
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
Russian provocations
How should NATO and the EU react?
samf.substack.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Strategy Grand Old Man, Lawrence freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social weighs in on the latest Russian provocations. Do read:
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs.
So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.
So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.
September 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Feel like we should bring back the old twitter follow friday to boost good people on here who maybe didn't get an initial boost from the starter packs.
So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.
So follow @psurridge.bsky.social and @profjanegreen.bsky.social - two excellent and thoughtful political scientists.
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New post just out:
"Burn it down vs build it up"
With the right radicalising by the day - how can the argument be won on the key dividing line in politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
"Burn it down vs build it up"
With the right radicalising by the day - how can the argument be won on the key dividing line in politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
Burn it down vs build it up
Winning the argument on the key dividing line in politics
open.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:47 AM
New post just out:
"Burn it down vs build it up"
With the right radicalising by the day - how can the argument be won on the key dividing line in politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
"Burn it down vs build it up"
With the right radicalising by the day - how can the argument be won on the key dividing line in politics?
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/b...
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Almost like allowing private equity to take over the children's home market was a terrible idea.
Someone should have written about that in a book....
samf.substack.com/p/contract-k...
Someone should have written about that in a book....
samf.substack.com/p/contract-k...
September 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Almost like allowing private equity to take over the children's home market was a terrible idea.
Someone should have written about that in a book....
samf.substack.com/p/contract-k...
Someone should have written about that in a book....
samf.substack.com/p/contract-k...
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New post just out:
"Capitalism with American Characteristics"
On how Donald Trump is starting to emulate China is his authoritarian approach to big business.
And why markets and investors should be much more worried than they seem to be.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...
"Capitalism with American Characteristics"
On how Donald Trump is starting to emulate China is his authoritarian approach to big business.
And why markets and investors should be much more worried than they seem to be.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...
Capitalism with American Characteristics
The CEOs of America’s largest companies lined up at Trump’s second inauguration
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 7:49 AM
New post just out:
"Capitalism with American Characteristics"
On how Donald Trump is starting to emulate China is his authoritarian approach to big business.
And why markets and investors should be much more worried than they seem to be.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...
"Capitalism with American Characteristics"
On how Donald Trump is starting to emulate China is his authoritarian approach to big business.
And why markets and investors should be much more worried than they seem to be.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/c...
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Indian PM Narendra Modi in Delhi.
The world continues to realign while Trump shows White House visitors his MAGA hats.
The world continues to realign while Trump shows White House visitors his MAGA hats.
August 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Indian PM Narendra Modi in Delhi.
The world continues to realign while Trump shows White House visitors his MAGA hats.
The world continues to realign while Trump shows White House visitors his MAGA hats.
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We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1.
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Job Vacancies - Recruitment - Ralph Allen School
Ralph Allen School in Combe Down, Bath, England, is a co-educational, comprehensive secondary school with academy status. Located on the south-eastern edge of Bath, the school educates 11 to 18-year-o...
www.ralphallenschool.com
August 17, 2025 at 1:30 PM
We have a Full Time HLTA (Literacy / EAL focus) role available in my department at our lovely inclusive school in Bath. Closing date 1st week of September so we can get someone in place ASAP into term 1.
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
Please Repost for a wide audience in the West.
www.ralphallenschool.com/1148/job-vac...
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Brilliant afternoon as Manchester welcomed Samoa, Wales, Scotland and Australia to #RWC2025!
#WomensRugby
#WomensRugby
August 17, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Brilliant afternoon as Manchester welcomed Samoa, Wales, Scotland and Australia to #RWC2025!
#WomensRugby
#WomensRugby
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Pakistani Brits significantly outperform the average in school performance and are much more likely to go to university. So yes just racism from someone else whose mind has been destroyed by twitter.
August 16, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Pakistani Brits significantly outperform the average in school performance and are much more likely to go to university. So yes just racism from someone else whose mind has been destroyed by twitter.
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New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
"Half-Baked Alaska"
On the failed Trump-Putin summit and what changes about the prospects of peace as a result.
(£/free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/half-baked...
"Half-Baked Alaska"
On the failed Trump-Putin summit and what changes about the prospects of peace as a result.
(£/free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/half-baked...
Half-Baked Alaska
Moving from ceasefire to full settlement
samf.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social
"Half-Baked Alaska"
On the failed Trump-Putin summit and what changes about the prospects of peace as a result.
(£/free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/half-baked...
"Half-Baked Alaska"
On the failed Trump-Putin summit and what changes about the prospects of peace as a result.
(£/free to read)
samf.substack.com/p/half-baked...