Laura McInerney
@missmc.bsky.social
Co-Founder of TeacherTapp, daily poll of 12k teachers. Former editor of Schools Week & Guardian columnist. Once a teacher, always a teacher.
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
SAY: Laura 'Mack & Ernie' (like there's 3 of us!)
Journalist is on BBC Radio 4 right now panicking over having ‘brain fog’ - ie one day when she couldn’t remember what she planned to say on air.
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Journalist is on BBC Radio 4 right now panicking over having ‘brain fog’ - ie one day when she couldn’t remember what she planned to say on air.
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
Was just thinking: Hasn’t every teacher experienced this?
And she said: ‘lots of people have written in… teachers…’
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❌ Exclusive: AI-driven reports that government said would help bring attendance 'back to – and beyond – pre-pandemic levels' have been suspended just days after they were launched
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
AI attendance reports suspended just days after launch
Government had said the reports would help bring attendance 'back to - and beyond - pre-pandemic levels'
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 17, 2025 at 10:37 AM
❌ Exclusive: AI-driven reports that government said would help bring attendance 'back to – and beyond – pre-pandemic levels' have been suspended just days after they were launched
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
This comes after leaders noticed inaccuracies in the data provided...
schoolsweek.co.uk/embarrassing...
Wild times.
November 17, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Wild times.
People forget that there was dog poo everywhere, besides anything else!
"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
“It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975
November 15, 2025 at 9:19 AM
People forget that there was dog poo everywhere, besides anything else!
@michaelt1979.bsky.social
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Police and crime commissioners to be scrapped in England and Wales - BBC News
The government says it will save £100m over this Parliament and less than 20% of voters can name their PCC.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
@michaelt1979.bsky.social
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
“If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by” - Sun Tzu.
😆
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Every time the radio says Trump is demanding One Billion Dollars from the BBC, all I can see is…
dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
ALT: dr. evil from the movie dumb and dumber is sitting in a chair .
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Every time the radio says Trump is demanding One Billion Dollars from the BBC, all I can see is…
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As late as the 1960s, the Prime Minister’s driver used to always have to make sure he had four one penny coins in his pocket because if there was an alert of imminent Soviet nuclear attack when the PM was travelling, that was how the PM would dial Whitehall and coordinate the UKs response.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
As late as the 1960s, the Prime Minister’s driver used to always have to make sure he had four one penny coins in his pocket because if there was an alert of imminent Soviet nuclear attack when the PM was travelling, that was how the PM would dial Whitehall and coordinate the UKs response.
I had totally forgotten that we used to text with numbers 😆
Me reading the manual for my first mobile phone:
"Short Messaging Service?
Type using the number keys?
Who the hell would use that?"
"Short Messaging Service?
Type using the number keys?
Who the hell would use that?"
November 10, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I had totally forgotten that we used to text with numbers 😆
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The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
November 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right.
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
The playbook is wearyingly similar.
Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2
My favourite is explaining pagers to children.
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
When I was a child my dad once sent me a telegram to wish me luck for a dance show because he was working overseas at the time. (I've still got it tucked away somewhere.) If you think about it, it's incredible how easy international communication has come on in a generation. Who remembers faxes? 🤷♀️😂
November 10, 2025 at 7:37 AM
My favourite is explaining pagers to children.
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
‘So you phoned one person. Told them your message. They wrote it down and sent it to the person’s device’
‘How did they respond?’
‘They couldn’t.’
🤯
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Thanks so much again to the expert panel, including @cassiebuchanan.bsky.social @jonhutchinson.bsky.social @jo-annebaird.bsky.social and the others for their wisdom
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Thanks so much again to the expert panel, including @cassiebuchanan.bsky.social @jonhutchinson.bsky.social @jo-annebaird.bsky.social and the others for their wisdom
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🚨The curriculum review is out!
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
New curriculum to be introduced in 2028 as review published
Government commits to scrap the EBacc and make citizenship compulsory in primary schools
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:15 AM
🚨The curriculum review is out!
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
First: Government commits to a new national curriculum in 2028. Will also replace year 6 writing test, new oracy framework, financial literacy in primary
Our news story on the government's response to the key review findings: (1/4)
schoolsweek.co.uk/new-curricul...
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Professor Becky Francis has published her final curriculum and assessment review report.
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
Q&A: Becky Francis on the big ideas in her curriculum review
Chair explains thinking behind year 8 tests, scrapping EBacc and triple science guarantee
schoolsweek.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Professor Becky Francis has published her final curriculum and assessment review report.
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
She spoke to Schools Week about some of its key recommendations and the thinking behind them
https://schoolsweek.co.uk/interview-becky-francis-on-the-big-ideas-in-her-curriculum-review/
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"A Year in Willerby" will go on sale in December for £20.
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
November 2, 2025 at 1:30 PM
"A Year in Willerby" will go on sale in December for £20.
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
Twelve of our stories, village history and other ephemera, illustrated with original lino cut illustrations.
Let us know if you're interested so we can get a sense of how many to print.
www.welcometowillerby.co.uk/a-year-in-wi...
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Singing in the Wire.
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
November 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Singing in the Wire.
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
A Willerby Story.
A call centre connecting the living with the dead.
Five minutes to say whatever it is you never got to say.
willerby.substack.com/p/singing-in...
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Sometimes I like to dream about being from a nation where you always know where you'll find your country name in an alphabetical list.
November 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Sometimes I like to dream about being from a nation where you always know where you'll find your country name in an alphabetical list.
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My GP just gave me a new response the next time something goes wrong at work
October 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
My GP just gave me a new response the next time something goes wrong at work
I had every sympathy for Rayner and her housing situation. That was complex.
But I have zero time for people who don’t get the right renting licences, especially in London, where you almost always need one, and the information is entirely googleable.
But I have zero time for people who don’t get the right renting licences, especially in London, where you almost always need one, and the information is entirely googleable.
October 30, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I had every sympathy for Rayner and her housing situation. That was complex.
But I have zero time for people who don’t get the right renting licences, especially in London, where you almost always need one, and the information is entirely googleable.
But I have zero time for people who don’t get the right renting licences, especially in London, where you almost always need one, and the information is entirely googleable.
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I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
October 30, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
My column www.ft.com/content/f086...
Well, if the Greens are going to be a bigger part of the conversation, I’m going to need to learn a bit more about their history, so I’ve dug out this 1984 classic… (Just before they changed their name, they were still the Ecology Party!)
October 28, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Well, if the Greens are going to be a bigger part of the conversation, I’m going to need to learn a bit more about their history, so I’ve dug out this 1984 classic… (Just before they changed their name, they were still the Ecology Party!)
Erm…
I’m on a train where the *train manager* is watching videos on his phone without headphones.
This is a new low.
I’m on a train where the *train manager* is watching videos on his phone without headphones.
This is a new low.
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Erm…
I’m on a train where the *train manager* is watching videos on his phone without headphones.
This is a new low.
I’m on a train where the *train manager* is watching videos on his phone without headphones.
This is a new low.
If they’re going to bin off Strictly (not confirmed, but presenters are going) …
Can I put a bid in for a Surprise Surprise reboot presented by Stacey Solomon?
You know it makes sense.
Can I put a bid in for a Surprise Surprise reboot presented by Stacey Solomon?
You know it makes sense.
October 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
If they’re going to bin off Strictly (not confirmed, but presenters are going) …
Can I put a bid in for a Surprise Surprise reboot presented by Stacey Solomon?
You know it makes sense.
Can I put a bid in for a Surprise Surprise reboot presented by Stacey Solomon?
You know it makes sense.
I see you, senior Tory, giving away your millennial roots…
Can anyone else spot the tell?
Can anyone else spot the tell?
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I see you, senior Tory, giving away your millennial roots…
Can anyone else spot the tell?
Can anyone else spot the tell?
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The points @msjasminemn.bsky.social makes in the body of the article are important.
Rhetoric around immigration has now moved against not only illegal immigration, but legal immigration.
schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my...
Rhetoric around immigration has now moved against not only illegal immigration, but legal immigration.
schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my...
I’ve given teaching my all. Now I’m told I don't belong here
The thought that I won't be able to be treated as a citizen is disturbing
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 7:29 PM
The points @msjasminemn.bsky.social makes in the body of the article are important.
Rhetoric around immigration has now moved against not only illegal immigration, but legal immigration.
schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my...
Rhetoric around immigration has now moved against not only illegal immigration, but legal immigration.
schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my...
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❗ Big policy news - the schools white paper will not be published this Autumn as promised
Instead ministers want more time to consult on their SEND reforms, and are now promising it will come 'early in the new year'
Probably the right call, but still frustrating
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-whit...
Instead ministers want more time to consult on their SEND reforms, and are now promising it will come 'early in the new year'
Probably the right call, but still frustrating
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-whit...
Schools white paper delayed until next year
Autumn deadline will be missed as ministers take more time to consider controversial SEND reforms
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
❗ Big policy news - the schools white paper will not be published this Autumn as promised
Instead ministers want more time to consult on their SEND reforms, and are now promising it will come 'early in the new year'
Probably the right call, but still frustrating
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-whit...
Instead ministers want more time to consult on their SEND reforms, and are now promising it will come 'early in the new year'
Probably the right call, but still frustrating
schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-whit...