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Daniel Farke is in the top 4 Leeds managers of my life time. I’ve loved his team this week.
The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?
At a rugby club in small-town Leicestershire. This was on the window ledge in the toilet. Fearing the worst, I scanned the QR & opened it in an incognito window…
It’s a link to Amnesty International’s explainer on asylum & refugees 😍
Sent him an email about it and come across a bit
I’ve been very self indulgent with my Black History Month assembly this year. Telling the story of modern South Africa through the life of Lucas Radebe.
What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
It's not asylum seekers who jack up rents, undermine the NHS, hold down wages and keep people insecure.
It's capital.
The role of the far right is to shift the blame for decades of economic attacks by the rich and powerful onto powerless people who have only just arrived here.
Do you mind if I ask how old your child is? We have a 3 year old and 6 week old and can’t wait to go on trips like yours in the future. We’re thinking Euro Camping might be an achievable first step in the next few years.
As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.
Am I too late to make a submission to the curriculum review?
i dno, maybe time to let it go
Thanks for taking the time to read. Yes, fully covered in the ‘etymology’ part of the lesson’s Freyer Model.
Thanks to the great things I’ve been seeing on here from @counsellc.bsky.social, @hughrichards.bsky.social and @petejackson.bsky.social I’ve been really enjoying adding more short narratives to read at starts of lessons to next year’s booklets. Here are British Raj, Opium Wars & Yellow River Floods
Not going to miss an opportunity to get Orwell in there.
Needy enjoying re-writing our A-Leven British Empire booklets to take a more non-fiction, narrative tone. I’m trying to world build with contemporary quotes as much as possible.
Happy Paper 1 Medicine to all those who celebrate!
For the first time in a while, I’ve gone heavy on Writing Revolution activities in resourcing Year 12’s independent practice on British Colonial and Native policy 1890-1914 tomorrow.
24. Season 1. Episode 1. Doing it
This is also the best book I’ve ever read.
And Gabby Dawnay/Mimi Purnell
And Bethan Woollvin
This World Book Day I’m grateful for everything written and drawn by Julia Sarda.
If my kids' headteacher tweeted "'British’ is a term that allows us to keep ‘English’ for the white English", we would move schools. But of course she wouldn't say that, and nor would any other head in the UK except Birbalsingh, who has been driven mad by the attention of the rightwing media
They’ve been a game changer for us over the past 18months. 2 booklets for Year 10 and 2 for Year 11. The carefully sequenced and collaboratively written curriculum is amazing, but the time saved at the photocopier each morning for each member of the team is job changing.
Depressingly hits the nail on the head.
Every week it blows my mind how many Leeds fans are “fuming” after games where we’re top of the league. These are the good time! Enjoy the ride!
A new genre on the record shelf.
Feels appropriate on Labour budget day. From John Le Carré’s afterward to A Murder of Quality.