@ged10.bsky.social
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Wes Streeting with the help of Alan ‘got rich in private healthcare’ Milburn, his adviser, are proposing throwing far more public money to the private sector. We can all celebrate making Private Equity bosses much much richer whilst we suffer.
This isn’t change, this is the Tories on steroids.
This isn’t change, this is the Tories on steroids.
October 9, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Wes Streeting with the help of Alan ‘got rich in private healthcare’ Milburn, his adviser, are proposing throwing far more public money to the private sector. We can all celebrate making Private Equity bosses much much richer whilst we suffer.
This isn’t change, this is the Tories on steroids.
This isn’t change, this is the Tories on steroids.
In July 2025, Gibb's impartiality was again questioned in an open letter from over 400 media figures to the BBC "we are concerned that individual w. close ties to Jewish Chronicle … has a say in the BBC's editorial decisions in any capacity, incl. decision not to broadcast Gaza. Implications huge.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 PM
In July 2025, Gibb's impartiality was again questioned in an open letter from over 400 media figures to the BBC "we are concerned that individual w. close ties to Jewish Chronicle … has a say in the BBC's editorial decisions in any capacity, incl. decision not to broadcast Gaza. Implications huge.
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The legislation is so ludicrous, even the police look embarrassed when called upon to enforce it.
Hundreds of elderly people charged under anti-terrorism laws because of a cardboard sign.
Hundreds of elderly people charged under anti-terrorism laws because of a cardboard sign.
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Terror definition too broad, Starmer to be told
New advice could undermine the Palestine Action ban
www.newstatesman.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
The legislation is so ludicrous, even the police look embarrassed when called upon to enforce it.
Hundreds of elderly people charged under anti-terrorism laws because of a cardboard sign.
Hundreds of elderly people charged under anti-terrorism laws because of a cardboard sign.
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So, this happened… thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 8:37 PM
So, this happened… thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social
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No. 39 in my #FavePicturebooks25 is “Good Golden Sun” by @brendanwenzel.bsky.social
A simple idea, tracing the sun’s journey becomes something brilliant. It shows how energy moves through the world and give everything life, and visually it zings. Great science. Fab stuff. #PicturebookPage
A simple idea, tracing the sun’s journey becomes something brilliant. It shows how energy moves through the world and give everything life, and visually it zings. Great science. Fab stuff. #PicturebookPage
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
No. 39 in my #FavePicturebooks25 is “Good Golden Sun” by @brendanwenzel.bsky.social
A simple idea, tracing the sun’s journey becomes something brilliant. It shows how energy moves through the world and give everything life, and visually it zings. Great science. Fab stuff. #PicturebookPage
A simple idea, tracing the sun’s journey becomes something brilliant. It shows how energy moves through the world and give everything life, and visually it zings. Great science. Fab stuff. #PicturebookPage
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Once more for the weekend long read crowd 👇
All Oxford’s news in the Clarion newsletter. Including:
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
🚉 Cowley Branch Line to reopen
🚌 Congestion charge means more buses
🐶 Dog-friendly restaurant
🪺 Save Oxfordshire’s curlews
📖 Our new books section
❄️ Silly gritter names
And more! Read online or by email: oxfordclarion.uk/clarion-week...
Clarion Weekly, 24 October 2025
This week’s long reads
The Cowley Branch Line is reopening! The Government this week pledged £120m to bring passenger trains back to Cowley and Littlemore. Our long read has everything you need to kn...
oxfordclarion.uk
October 25, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Once more for the weekend long read crowd 👇
Wonderful article from @alexjquigley.bsky.social (although #EEF has done brilliant work it has also included work of dubious/harmful worth and is massively expensive)
October 25, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Wonderful article from @alexjquigley.bsky.social (although #EEF has done brilliant work it has also included work of dubious/harmful worth and is massively expensive)
“We’re doing things that kind of go against what we [Holder/Obama] talked about...“we have to preserve our democracy if ultimately we’re going to heal it.” via Washington Post 22/10/2-25.
October 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
“We’re doing things that kind of go against what we [Holder/Obama] talked about...“we have to preserve our democracy if ultimately we’re going to heal it.” via Washington Post 22/10/2-25.
Sometimes Old Andrew' Education Battleground can feel out of kilter with the zeitgist but he can be one of the few voices analysing the situation- as here: The problem with interventions for mental health. 'Debates about what we should do can distract from debates about what we can do'
October 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Sometimes Old Andrew' Education Battleground can feel out of kilter with the zeitgist but he can be one of the few voices analysing the situation- as here: The problem with interventions for mental health. 'Debates about what we should do can distract from debates about what we can do'
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'For the entire time I’ve lived here, I believed that the strength of British identity and pride would withstand anything, that no gale could deter the journey forward. How naive I had been'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my-all-to-britain-teaching-education-now-im-told-i-may-not-belong-here/
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my-all-to-britain-teaching-education-now-im-told-i-may-not-belong-here/
October 22, 2025 at 5:20 AM
'For the entire time I’ve lived here, I believed that the strength of British identity and pride would withstand anything, that no gale could deter the journey forward. How naive I had been'
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my-all-to-britain-teaching-education-now-im-told-i-may-not-belong-here/
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my-all-to-britain-teaching-education-now-im-told-i-may-not-belong-here/
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Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology:
“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“
“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“
Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
www.theguardian.com
October 11, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology:
“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“
“Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“
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Reported plans to introduce mandatory Year 8 reading tests are more popular with classroom teachers than heads, according to a new @teachertapp.bsky.social poll.
🔗 Read the full analysis: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
🔗 Read the full analysis: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
October 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Reported plans to introduce mandatory Year 8 reading tests are more popular with classroom teachers than heads, according to a new @teachertapp.bsky.social poll.
🔗 Read the full analysis: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
🔗 Read the full analysis: www.tes.com/magazine/new...
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I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/
September 19, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/
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What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? In any event not just facts, not just math and reading, and not elitist. It is the strongest lever for equity. And thus ultimately a matter of social justice. #EduSky
@timsurma.bsky.social, @danielmuijs.bsky.social
@timsurma.bsky.social, @danielmuijs.bsky.social
September 20, 2025 at 6:11 AM
What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? In any event not just facts, not just math and reading, and not elitist. It is the strongest lever for equity. And thus ultimately a matter of social justice. #EduSky
@timsurma.bsky.social, @danielmuijs.bsky.social
@timsurma.bsky.social, @danielmuijs.bsky.social
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NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
August 31, 2025 at 9:00 AM
NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War.
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Some more beautiful books here that arrived on my doorstep yesterday. @marymyatt.bsky.social . Perfect for animal classification and packed full of facts that could be used across school . My five year old loves them. #edutwitter #primaryreading #lovebooks
August 30, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Some more beautiful books here that arrived on my doorstep yesterday. @marymyatt.bsky.social . Perfect for animal classification and packed full of facts that could be used across school . My five year old loves them. #edutwitter #primaryreading #lovebooks
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YES! So well articulated.
New post just out:
"The financial crisis theory of everything"
Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The financial crisis theory of everything"
Why the 2008 crash was the WW1 of our generation that led to nearly all of the problems we have today - from the rise of the radical right to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
(£/free trial)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The financial crisis theory of everything
Last month there was a fascinating poll from More in Common asking people to pick the main reason Britain is “on the wrong track”.
open.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 8:42 AM
YES! So well articulated.
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A former cabinet minister has said the UK government is “digging itself into a hole” over Palestine Action and fellow Labour peers and MPs were regretting voting to ban the group. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #wato
Peter Hain says UK government ‘digging itself into hole’ over Palestine Action
Peer opposed banning group and says fellow Labour peers and MPs are regretting proscription
www.theguardian.com
August 13, 2025 at 11:39 AM
A former cabinet minister has said the UK government is “digging itself into a hole” over Palestine Action and fellow Labour peers and MPs were regretting voting to ban the group. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #wato
DDoLL (Development Disorders of Language and Literature) has been forced to close (technical reasons that are too costly to put right, I understand). Greg Ashman 'Filling the Pail' etc + Substack contributor is setting up a network to continue invaluable support - join via Google.
July 30, 2025 at 10:36 AM
DDoLL (Development Disorders of Language and Literature) has been forced to close (technical reasons that are too costly to put right, I understand). Greg Ashman 'Filling the Pail' etc + Substack contributor is setting up a network to continue invaluable support - join via Google.
And, Rachel, I'm still looking for the book that contained your brilliant short Stig of the Dump passage/analysis for SEN. Can you help? Looking forward to your next moves and whip-sharp humour if/when you're writing/posting again
That’s social work, not social care. We need a frontline for social care that positions it as a well-paid career of choice.
Impossible while the system is funded so poorly though.
Impossible while the system is funded so poorly though.
July 17, 2025 at 10:20 AM
And, Rachel, I'm still looking for the book that contained your brilliant short Stig of the Dump passage/analysis for SEN. Can you help? Looking forward to your next moves and whip-sharp humour if/when you're writing/posting again
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2024 was - by some distance - the most expensive election in British history
Labour really needs to act to take money out of politics, before it’s too late
Labour really needs to act to take money out of politics, before it’s too late
July 17, 2025 at 9:06 AM
2024 was - by some distance - the most expensive election in British history
Labour really needs to act to take money out of politics, before it’s too late
Labour really needs to act to take money out of politics, before it’s too late
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Catholic Church said a parish priest and several others were injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church. The priest, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke often during the war in Gaza.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
July 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Catholic Church said a parish priest and several others were injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church. The priest, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke often during the war in Gaza.
apnews.com/article/gaza...
apnews.com/article/gaza...
Advice from Washington Post today. 'When the price isn’t listed, I ask. So should you.'
July 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Advice from Washington Post today. 'When the price isn’t listed, I ask. So should you.'
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Reading should be a pleasure in each subject. So build it in, don't bolt it on. Let the scholarship used to design the lessons ooze through, in its cadences, rhythms & latent questions. And climb in thro well-crafted text: don't introduce knowledge as tidy, generalised facts.
Publication in June...
Publication in June...
Meanwhile, in the Dutch Republic...
How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people.
An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8
Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster
How to launch histories of trade and empire through stories of science & art, through sense of place, through specific people.
An early chapter in forthcoming #ChangingHistoriesKS3 for Year 8
Beautiful writing about Vermeer, by Rachel Foster
May 17, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Reading should be a pleasure in each subject. So build it in, don't bolt it on. Let the scholarship used to design the lessons ooze through, in its cadences, rhythms & latent questions. And climb in thro well-crafted text: don't introduce knowledge as tidy, generalised facts.
Publication in June...
Publication in June...