Some podcasts are good, some are bad. I actually love that ‘In our time’ is now a podcast/archive of the radio shows, including episodes pre-podcast era. The 2003 episode on the Spanish Civil War with Paul Preston, Mary Vincent and Helen Graham is wonderful for my Advanced Higher History students.

As ever, you express my fears about where we are far better than I ever could. Sadly, it gets ever harder to believe that this can end peacefully, such is the obscenity of the situation.

All of the teachers who collectively forgot how to teach the course from 2023 to 2024, magically remembered again in 2025!

And the claim that teachers should be listened to is at odds with the experiences of anyone who has tried to engage with national bodies or local authorities. These people view teachers as an annoyance to be patronised and dismissed while they make the decisions they were going to make anyway.

Is the claim that it’s just a coincidence that ‘improving lives’ will also save £5 billion?