Ros McMullen
@rosmcm.bsky.social
Education and politics obsessive. (Whisky Sheep and Travel too)
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Thank you @tesmagazine.bsky.social for your support.
Our 5th Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report is an important read.
Published on our website next week.
Our 5th Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report is an important read.
Published on our website next week.
Excl: A headteacher support service has warned leaders are seeking medical treatment over "unethical" treatment by trusts and councils.
While most trusts & LAs act with integrity, @headrestuk.bsky.social says these "disturbing" cases are now “increasingly recurring".
While most trusts & LAs act with integrity, @headrestuk.bsky.social says these "disturbing" cases are now “increasingly recurring".
Leaders suffer ‘disturbing’ mistreatment, support service warns
School leaders are being set ‘undeliverable’ expectations, says Headrest, as it fields a big increase in calls
www.tes.com
January 23, 2026 at 9:47 AM
Thank you @tesmagazine.bsky.social for your support.
Our 5th Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report is an important read.
Published on our website next week.
Our 5th Annual Headteacher Wellbeing Report is an important read.
Published on our website next week.
Our Annual Report
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Leaders suffer ‘disturbing’ mistreatment, support service warns
School leaders are being set ‘undeliverable’ expectations, says Headrest, as it fields a big increase in calls
www.tes.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Our Annual Report
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I was driving while Trump delivered that speech; first time I’ve actually listened to his ramblings and my jaw was on the floor. Why was he not immediately sectioned afterwards? Either dangerous, deliberate lies or utterly mad.
January 21, 2026 at 7:44 PM
I was driving while Trump delivered that speech; first time I’ve actually listened to his ramblings and my jaw was on the floor. Why was he not immediately sectioned afterwards? Either dangerous, deliberate lies or utterly mad.
Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit | John Crace
January 16, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Jenrick’s incredible journey – from self-centred halfwit to self-centred halfwit | John Crace
What a crock of shit this #Corriedale is!
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
What a crock of shit this #Corriedale is!
The #coercivecontrol storyline in #corrie is a very difficult watch 😢
October 28, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The #coercivecontrol storyline in #corrie is a very difficult watch 😢
Let me help all these ridiculous journos out by pointing out that royalty is:
1. not a meritocracy
2. born into feeling entitled
3. not sackable (that is the whole point!)
4. throughout history they use women appallingly
You want a royal family - you need to understand this!
1. not a meritocracy
2. born into feeling entitled
3. not sackable (that is the whole point!)
4. throughout history they use women appallingly
You want a royal family - you need to understand this!
October 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Let me help all these ridiculous journos out by pointing out that royalty is:
1. not a meritocracy
2. born into feeling entitled
3. not sackable (that is the whole point!)
4. throughout history they use women appallingly
You want a royal family - you need to understand this!
1. not a meritocracy
2. born into feeling entitled
3. not sackable (that is the whole point!)
4. throughout history they use women appallingly
You want a royal family - you need to understand this!
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To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
October 21, 2025 at 10:47 AM
To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?
The thing that baffles me is all these people being ‘deeply shocked that a member of the royal family would behave like this’. Have they read no history? Male royals entitled behaviour towards women is how it has always been. (Another reason why royalty is totally unsuitable for this age)
October 20, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The thing that baffles me is all these people being ‘deeply shocked that a member of the royal family would behave like this’. Have they read no history? Male royals entitled behaviour towards women is how it has always been. (Another reason why royalty is totally unsuitable for this age)
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Colleagues - we are beginning to get some feedback on these pilot inspections. It is helpful for us to know how things are on the ground in order to support. Please send us any information you you have.
October 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Colleagues - we are beginning to get some feedback on these pilot inspections. It is helpful for us to know how things are on the ground in order to support. Please send us any information you you have.
I was chuffed with this autumnal dinner I made. (Too much effort though - bloody pumpkins have way too many seeds!)
October 9, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I was chuffed with this autumnal dinner I made. (Too much effort though - bloody pumpkins have way too many seeds!)
That was a good speech from the PM today 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
September 30, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That was a good speech from the PM today 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Lovely Fountains Abbey
September 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Lovely Fountains Abbey
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Exclusive: Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of doing more than anyone else to encourage the intolerant far right across the globe as the US president arrives in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump has fanned the flames of divisive politics around the world, says Sadiq Khan
Exclusive: London mayor says US president has ‘perhaps done the most’ to encourage far right
www.theguardian.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Exclusive: Sadiq Khan has accused Donald Trump of doing more than anyone else to encourage the intolerant far right across the globe as the US president arrives in the UK.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I simply do not understand the wall-to-wall coverage of this Charlie Kirk 🤷♀️
Kids and teachers in schools get shot in USA and our media report briefly and move on - to me that seems far worse.
I find this worrying.
Kids and teachers in schools get shot in USA and our media report briefly and move on - to me that seems far worse.
I find this worrying.
September 16, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I simply do not understand the wall-to-wall coverage of this Charlie Kirk 🤷♀️
Kids and teachers in schools get shot in USA and our media report briefly and move on - to me that seems far worse.
I find this worrying.
Kids and teachers in schools get shot in USA and our media report briefly and move on - to me that seems far worse.
I find this worrying.
If you are capable of epic levels in suspension of disbelief, I recommend’Hostage’ on Netflix 🤣
August 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
If you are capable of epic levels in suspension of disbelief, I recommend’Hostage’ on Netflix 🤣
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'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC apologises after Robert Jenrick accused of xenophobia
A contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day slot made the remark about the shadow justice secretary.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 13, 2025 at 6:12 PM
'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I wonder if this will hit the news headlines
Clear pattern emerging: impact of new taxes on private schools, non-doms and large farms is far smaller than typically suggested. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK tax data reportedly suggests claims of non-dom exodus overblown
HMRC figures appear to indicate departure of high net worth people is in line with OBR predictions, report says
www.theguardian.com
August 14, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I wonder if this will hit the news headlines
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The open secret of Jenrick's utterly cynical and made-up National Populism should not be shrugged off like the open secrets of what Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are really like. We can't keep doing this.
August 9, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The open secret of Jenrick's utterly cynical and made-up National Populism should not be shrugged off like the open secrets of what Boris Johnson and Liz Truss are really like. We can't keep doing this.
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I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell ya.
New post just out:
"The Great VAT Panic"
The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.
Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?
(£/free)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
"The Great VAT Panic"
The claims made by the right-wing press about VAT on private school fees were wildly wrong.
Why? What are the lessons about about (how not to) run a lobbying campaign? And what can government learn?
(£/free)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...
The Great VAT Panic
Or how not to run a campaign
open.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I am shocked. SHOCKED, I tell ya.
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For me, the BBC’s image choice here is reprehensible…
…it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.
…it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.
How BBC presents the anti-migrant hotel protests vs how we do at @bylinesnetwork.co.uk
BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children”
We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”
BBC lead with a Reform UK voter saying "We are not happy with these men in this hotel because we fear for our children”
We tell of the refugee children inside the hotel terrified by chants of “send them out!”
August 9, 2025 at 10:50 PM
For me, the BBC’s image choice here is reprehensible…
…it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.
…it glorifies these thugs who were intimidating refugees - makes them look like they are protesting for some sort of freedom… rather than the targeted harassment of the vulnerable.
I am just back in UK after 4 weeks in mainland Europe, and after managing the laundry etc will be off to Edinburgh - what do you all recommend I catch up there this year?
August 9, 2025 at 10:09 PM
I am just back in UK after 4 weeks in mainland Europe, and after managing the laundry etc will be off to Edinburgh - what do you all recommend I catch up there this year?