@mikehodgkiss.bsky.social
Former deputy headteacher & editor of @Teachtalks. Currently enjoying retirement; dog walking, painting, ancestry research, Suffolk big skies & learning the ukulele.
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"MAGA says Alex Pretti was holding a weapon – but it was never the gun. It was always the phone.
"The phone that sheds light on truth is far more powerful right now than a gun in the holster."
Are the ICE killings a moment MAGA can't lie its way out of?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/minn...
"The phone that sheds light on truth is far more powerful right now than a gun in the holster."
Are the ICE killings a moment MAGA can't lie its way out of?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/minn...
Minneapolis ICE killings: A moment MAGA can’t lie its way out of? | The News Agents
MAGA claims Alex Pretti was a danger to ICE agents who shot him dead on the street in Minneapolis – but social media footage tells a different story. Is this the moment disinformation from the Trump…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
January 28, 2026 at 7:00 AM
"MAGA says Alex Pretti was holding a weapon – but it was never the gun. It was always the phone.
"The phone that sheds light on truth is far more powerful right now than a gun in the holster."
Are the ICE killings a moment MAGA can't lie its way out of?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/minn...
"The phone that sheds light on truth is far more powerful right now than a gun in the holster."
Are the ICE killings a moment MAGA can't lie its way out of?
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/minn...
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“Schools and colleges strive to provide these young people with the pastoral care they need, but their resources are under severe pressure because of the lack of adequate funding."
Our full comment on Future Minds report on mental ill health in children: https://ow.ly/S81s50Y4k5W
#education
Our full comment on Future Minds report on mental ill health in children: https://ow.ly/S81s50Y4k5W
#education
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 AM
“Schools and colleges strive to provide these young people with the pastoral care they need, but their resources are under severe pressure because of the lack of adequate funding."
Our full comment on Future Minds report on mental ill health in children: https://ow.ly/S81s50Y4k5W
#education
Our full comment on Future Minds report on mental ill health in children: https://ow.ly/S81s50Y4k5W
#education
I’m trying to think of a historic precedent and all I can think of are two words: European colonialism
@davidolusoga.bsky.social @thehistoryguy.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
It was exploitation & oppression then and it is now.
@davidolusoga.bsky.social @thehistoryguy.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
It was exploitation & oppression then and it is now.
WATTERS: Have you been watching this New York Mayor Mamdani guy?
JD VANCE: Heh heh heh. The guy who wants to take all property away from white people?
JD VANCE: Heh heh heh. The guy who wants to take all property away from white people?
January 8, 2026 at 4:39 PM
I’m trying to think of a historic precedent and all I can think of are two words: European colonialism
@davidolusoga.bsky.social @thehistoryguy.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
It was exploitation & oppression then and it is now.
@davidolusoga.bsky.social @thehistoryguy.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
It was exploitation & oppression then and it is now.
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Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty
Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty
The US president’s grotesque theatrics on the world stage are an opportunistic distraction from his falling domestic ratings, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
www.theguardian.com
January 8, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Don’t dignify Trump with talk of a ‘new world order’ – there’s nothing new or ordered about this chaos | Aditya Chakrabortty
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Our Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice insights, #CPD including scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news, a forum for sharing knowledge & much more:
Headteacher Update - Safeguarding Digest information
Keep your school up to date, compliant and prepared
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November 17, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Our Safeguarding Digest platform for school #safeguarding teams offers best practice insights, #CPD including scenarios & key questions for staff, latest news, a forum for sharing knowledge & much more:
And her “apology” was not an apology but a re enforcement of her quite clearly racist viewpoint. How will the wider media view it? How will #Farage react?
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 8:27 AM
And her “apology” was not an apology but a re enforcement of her quite clearly racist viewpoint. How will the wider media view it? How will #Farage react?
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Very grateful for any shares on this to get the word out. Thanks! 🙏🏻⬇️
I'm running a webinar on adaptive teaching on 5th November. Loads of practical advice about inclusive approaches to teaching. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! #EduSky
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The Ultimate Guide to Adaptive Teaching - Webinar with Sue Cowley
Sue Cowley shares ideas about adaptive teaching and offers a range of practical strategies for creating an inclusive classroom
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October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Very grateful for any shares on this to get the word out. Thanks! 🙏🏻⬇️
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Never forget. Never again.
‘I have it in my blood and brain … I still haven’t been able to shake this nightmare off.’ How voices from a forgotten archive of Nazi horrors are reshaping perceptions of the Holocaust
The Ravensbrück archive reveals how being a survivor of the camps did not always entail innocence.
theconversation.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Never forget. Never again.
Artificial intelligence could be used to analyse recordings of lessons delivered by new teachers, to give feedback on what they are doing well and what could improve, as part of a National Institute of Teaching project
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AI could analyse early career teachers' lessons under pilot
AI could be used to analyse recordings of lessons delivered by early career teachers, to give feedback on what they are doing well and what could improve
schoolsweek.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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this is so incredibly powerful. thank you, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social et al. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tENn...
‘Don’t Mention the Children’ | A poem for the children of Gaza, by Michael Rosen
YouTube video by SaveTheChildren
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October 12, 2025 at 3:20 AM
this is so incredibly powerful. thank you, @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social et al. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tENn...
As Jo Grady, the UCU general secretary, said:
“This is an economically illiterate policy; no country has ever grown by slashing university places. Nonsensical ideas such as this come as no surprise from the party that crashed the economy…”
“This is an economically illiterate policy; no country has ever grown by slashing university places. Nonsensical ideas such as this come as no surprise from the party that crashed the economy…”
She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄
Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut
inews.co.uk
October 8, 2025 at 7:42 AM
As Jo Grady, the UCU general secretary, said:
“This is an economically illiterate policy; no country has ever grown by slashing university places. Nonsensical ideas such as this come as no surprise from the party that crashed the economy…”
“This is an economically illiterate policy; no country has ever grown by slashing university places. Nonsensical ideas such as this come as no surprise from the party that crashed the economy…”
And at night in #Thatchertheatre …….. well, you know what happens…..
"Thatcher theatre" - pretty much sums up cul-de-sac into which the Conservative Party has driven itself in the decades since her defenestration. And now it too, risks becoming a museum piece, fit only for two or three glass display cases rather than a return to office.
October 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
And at night in #Thatchertheatre …….. well, you know what happens…..
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The new #Ofsted inspection framework is flawed, poses clear risks to the wellbeing of school leaders & #teachers & will not offer parents reliable assessments of schools, says Paul Whiteman – @naht.org.uk – in his @seced.bsky.social blog: buff.ly/tQ5TPH9 #schools #edusky
Ofsted’s framework might actually increase risks to school leader safety - SecEd
Ofsted’s failure to listen to school leader concerns when revising inspection framework could increase wellbeing risks
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September 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
The new #Ofsted inspection framework is flawed, poses clear risks to the wellbeing of school leaders & #teachers & will not offer parents reliable assessments of schools, says Paul Whiteman – @naht.org.uk – in his @seced.bsky.social blog: buff.ly/tQ5TPH9 #schools #edusky
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Nigel Farage swans around peddling hate on Nick Ferrari’s phone-in | John Crace
Nigel Farage swans around peddling hate on Nick Ferrari’s phone-in | John Crace
From immigrants eating the king’s waterfowl to sharia law in London, it’s all there in our Nige’s relativist world
www.theguardian.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Nigel Farage swans around peddling hate on Nick Ferrari’s phone-in | John Crace
It is indeed increasingly annoying and unbalanced the way in which the BBC report on immigration and on Farage/ReformUK. It is also what they do not report on.
This is awful. I feel for this poor woman. However, the BBC has had a hand in this upturn in racism by creating and promoting constantly and disproportionately Nigel Farage and Reform UK.
More and more such incidents happening daily
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
September 25, 2025 at 6:40 AM
It is indeed increasingly annoying and unbalanced the way in which the BBC report on immigration and on Farage/ReformUK. It is also what they do not report on.
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From the original Swedish researchers.
Paracetamol use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows
Our research provides strong evidence against the concerning claims made recently by US president Donald Trump.
theconversation.com
September 25, 2025 at 5:52 AM
From the original Swedish researchers.
Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”
September 24, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.
September 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.
Thank you for your contribution to this programme and highlighting(again) the appalling waste of money and how a few lined their pockets from exploiting others’ misery.
Where oh where is the accountability?
Where oh where is the accountability?
Catch Eye hack Richard Brooks tonight on ITV1 in The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money.
The documentary tells the story of how some companies with little or no track record in supplying PPE or medical tests were given massive contracts - and made a killing from Covid.
🕙 10:15pm on ITV1 / ITVX
The documentary tells the story of how some companies with little or no track record in supplying PPE or medical tests were given massive contracts - and made a killing from Covid.
🕙 10:15pm on ITV1 / ITVX
September 23, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Thank you for your contribution to this programme and highlighting(again) the appalling waste of money and how a few lined their pockets from exploiting others’ misery.
Where oh where is the accountability?
Where oh where is the accountability?
Thank you for your contribution to this programme and highlighting(again) the appalling waste of money and how a few lined their pockets from exploiting others’ misery.
Where oh where is the accountability?
Where oh where is the accountability?
ITV’s The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money shows how government went from no PPE to mountains of it with huge contracts handed to firms with little to no track record.
Our director Jo Maugham explains Good Law Project’s role in exposing the VIP lane.
Our director Jo Maugham explains Good Law Project’s role in exposing the VIP lane.
September 23, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Thank you for your contribution to this programme and highlighting(again) the appalling waste of money and how a few lined their pockets from exploiting others’ misery.
Where oh where is the accountability?
Where oh where is the accountability?
Why has this received so little coverage? Where is the accountability? Well done ITV for showing it but why not at peak time? @chrischirp.bsky.social @paulbrand.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social #PPE
Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day....
PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.
PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.
The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever
This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate
www.theguardian.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Why has this received so little coverage? Where is the accountability? Well done ITV for showing it but why not at peak time? @chrischirp.bsky.social @paulbrand.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social #PPE
“As we’re seeing in the US it’s messy and often unpopular but can still lead to very significant change through sheer brute force” Is this the ‘he got the trains to run on time’ syndrome? That way danger lies. @samfr.bsky.social @suecowley.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
When I talk about chaotic authoritarianism in this post - this is what I'm talking about....
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September 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
“As we’re seeing in the US it’s messy and often unpopular but can still lead to very significant change through sheer brute force” Is this the ‘he got the trains to run on time’ syndrome? That way danger lies. @samfr.bsky.social @suecowley.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social
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despite media focus on small boats and asylum seekers, these only make up a tiny % of those coming to the UK – less than 5% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?
Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
despite media focus on small boats and asylum seekers, these only make up a tiny % of those coming to the UK – less than 5% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
despite media focus on small boats and asylum seekers, these only make up a tiny % of those coming to the UK – less than 5% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?
Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2025 at 7:32 AM
despite media focus on small boats and asylum seekers, these only make up a tiny % of those coming to the UK – less than 5% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social
"Let's remember that this entire process began with the suicide of a headteacher under the previous inspection system. Yet here we are with a reformed system which appears to be even worse."
Our full comment on #Ofsted's confirmed inspection changes: ow.ly/98JG50WT1Ab
Our full comment on #Ofsted's confirmed inspection changes: ow.ly/98JG50WT1Ab
September 9, 2025 at 7:07 AM