James Murphy
@jamespmurphy.bsky.social
Teaching, learning and behaviour. Director at Thinking Reading. Working with secondary schools to eradicate illiteracy.
Web: thinkingreading.com
Web: thinkingreading.com
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Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
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Beyond the convictions for violence, the fraud, bankruptcy and racism, the man is remarkably stupid
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
Great to know Trump is still moving. That’s great. Very reassuring. Soon they’ll be reassuring us he’s breathing.
Duffy: "Can I make one other point about POTUS before we're out of time? I have never seen someone work so hard. All day long he's moving, he's meeting, he's thinking. Dinners he's usually meeting with people. And then at night he's still on the phone calling people! He doesn't stop. He's a machine"
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Great to know Trump is still moving. That’s great. Very reassuring. Soon they’ll be reassuring us he’s breathing.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Brilliant - and a warning
Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the…
braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the…
braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...
Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the story never did. A brief moderate transitory inflation. A long and strong jobs and...
braddelong.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Brilliant - and a warning
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What does an email sent in error by Wales' schools inspectorate tell us about how it believes reading should be taught?
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www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
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www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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This is why history teachers are so important. This poor man thinks that unless you’re descended from fourth and fifth century immigrants, you’re not English.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
🔴Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is why history teachers are so important. This poor man thinks that unless you’re descended from fourth and fifth century immigrants, you’re not English.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
Also, journalists should watch for who stops clapping first when the PM gives a speech. That’s where the real news is.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Also, journalists should watch for who stops clapping first when the PM gives a speech. That’s where the real news is.
This is so grim. apple.news/AYGSac6XNSWu...
Why are Alaska’s rivers turning bright orange? Scientists have a theory. — National Geographic
The dramatic shift is a warning sign—and scientists say the changes that aren't yet visible to the naked eye are just as troubling.
apple.news
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is so grim. apple.news/AYGSac6XNSWu...
Astounding.
This story reads like a blockbuster movie script. But this is not a movie, this is real life and real people.
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Astounding.
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
All this whingeing about wanting your country back. I’d quite like go back to 2012 when I felt proud of this country, but we don’t have time machines and we can’t recreate that world because grifters broke it all from 2016-2024.
As Cormac McCarthy put it, “When things are gone, they’re gone.”
As Cormac McCarthy put it, “When things are gone, they’re gone.”
October 30, 2025 at 2:56 PM
All this whingeing about wanting your country back. I’d quite like go back to 2012 when I felt proud of this country, but we don’t have time machines and we can’t recreate that world because grifters broke it all from 2016-2024.
As Cormac McCarthy put it, “When things are gone, they’re gone.”
As Cormac McCarthy put it, “When things are gone, they’re gone.”
I guess that’s fine if they’re the ones to move out
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I guess that’s fine if they’re the ones to move out
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Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
October 27, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.
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A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
October 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.
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It makes me angry because I know it would have infuriated my father and his mates.
Nothing on this Earth annoyed them as much as people who had not been there trying to muscle in on the action - and appropriate what had gone on. He'd have despised it all and them in particular.
Nothing on this Earth annoyed them as much as people who had not been there trying to muscle in on the action - and appropriate what had gone on. He'd have despised it all and them in particular.
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
It makes me angry because I know it would have infuriated my father and his mates.
Nothing on this Earth annoyed them as much as people who had not been there trying to muscle in on the action - and appropriate what had gone on. He'd have despised it all and them in particular.
Nothing on this Earth annoyed them as much as people who had not been there trying to muscle in on the action - and appropriate what had gone on. He'd have despised it all and them in particular.
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Something I can't get over with the Sarah Pochin comments is that it's not just racist, it's also pathetic? Like oh wittle Sarah doesn't like the wittle adverts is it? Get a grip, you're a grown woman and member of parliament, stop being a snowflake and find a real problem to deal with
October 26, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Something I can't get over with the Sarah Pochin comments is that it's not just racist, it's also pathetic? Like oh wittle Sarah doesn't like the wittle adverts is it? Get a grip, you're a grown woman and member of parliament, stop being a snowflake and find a real problem to deal with
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Another reminder for this: Yesterday's blog post.
Education researchers publish obviously false claims about internal exclusion. Part 1 andrewold.substack.com/p/education-...
Education researchers publish obviously false claims about internal exclusion. Part 1 andrewold.substack.com/p/education-...
Education researchers publish obviously false claims about internal exclusion. Part 1
How does anyone believe this nonsense?
andrewold.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Another reminder for this: Yesterday's blog post.
Education researchers publish obviously false claims about internal exclusion. Part 1 andrewold.substack.com/p/education-...
Education researchers publish obviously false claims about internal exclusion. Part 1 andrewold.substack.com/p/education-...
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It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
October 12, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It's hard to help Americans left behind because so much of US identity is rooted in individualism. The average American conservative holds all three positions at once:
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
— Virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing
— Against raising the minimum wage
— Buys foreign imports because they're cheap
Great thread explaining truths about manufacturing and importing that many people would benefit from understanding
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
October 25, 2025 at 7:50 AM
Great thread explaining truths about manufacturing and importing that many people would benefit from understanding
Looks brilliant!
People of Oslo! Come about my book on the invention of the Slavonic alphabet next Wednesday at 4.15pm.
Details here: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
Details here: www.hf.uio.no/iakh/english...
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Looks brilliant!
Ah yes, we take keeping our waterways clean very seriously in the U.K., don’t we. Doesn’t matter who you are.
Unless you are dumping millions of litres of raw sewage / in that case carry on. But we won’t have coffee in our drains.
Unless you are dumping millions of litres of raw sewage / in that case carry on. But we won’t have coffee in our drains.
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Ah yes, we take keeping our waterways clean very seriously in the U.K., don’t we. Doesn’t matter who you are.
Unless you are dumping millions of litres of raw sewage / in that case carry on. But we won’t have coffee in our drains.
Unless you are dumping millions of litres of raw sewage / in that case carry on. But we won’t have coffee in our drains.
Honestly think Trump is now lost to his dementia/cognitive decline. We are all living with his delusions, and at the mercy of his manipulators, until such time as he’s replaced.
October 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Honestly think Trump is now lost to his dementia/cognitive decline. We are all living with his delusions, and at the mercy of his manipulators, until such time as he’s replaced.
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“The truth no longer matters, all you have to do is go viral”
October 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“The truth no longer matters, all you have to do is go viral”