Would agree with this. Look around to what’s happening in this world.

This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents.

Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract

Five-year-old boy and dad who were seized by ICE return home The father and son returned to their home in Minnesota after being held at an ICE detention center since January 20

A 5-yrr-old boy and his father who were detained by ICE and taken to a concentration camp in Texas have returned to Minneapolis after a federal judge ordered their release. Rep Joaquín Castro (D-TX) shared images of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father leaving the ICE camp early Sunday morning.

Carlos Alcaraz says he’s learned to appreciate every second of the life he’s living, whether he’s lifting trophies or not ❤

a man is covering his face with his hands while wearing a watch and a ring . Alt: a man is covering his face with his hands while wearing a watch and a ring .

There should be a support group for the parents of goalkeepers!

The incoming Dutch government plans to continue Ukraine support at current levels of at least 3 billion euros per year. However, it will be a minority cabinet and will need to find a majority in the House of Representatives to approve its plans. #Ukraine

‘Schoolboy error’ as smaller schools escape RISE crackdown The DfE has not contacted some primaries potentially needing support because data goes unpublished

❗️Exclusive: More than a thousand schools with poor outcomes slipped through the net of the government’s RISE low-attainment crackdown, exposing a 'significant gap' in its latest bid to boost results

The Farage-Orbán network Inside Reform’s deepening ties to Hungary’s autocratic regime...

Farage’s Reform UK likes to pitch itself as the party of “freedom” – free speech, free thinking, free markets. But a very different picture emerges when you follow the growing constellation of Reform politicians & advisors who are orbiting the authoritarian regime of Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán

See also: ‘but if we tax billionaires, they’ll all leave!’

I don't know how anyone in the UK can see what's happening in the US and then still want to vote for Farage

Where is the objective analysis of the millions/billions spent? Lack of transparency is troubling.

DfE: All teachers will get SEND and inclusion training DfE announces a new expectation on training teachers to support pupils with SEND, with £200m funding for new courses

RANT ALERT! OK. Fine. But who is going to write this and how it is going to be delivered?

We just cannot have more of the rubbish that has been churned out in the last few years and is now being rewritten and redesigned.
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The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics.

“This is about plunder and power.”

Part 1. My writing, I have decided, will include reflections, thoughts and ideas about education. But, I cannot ignore the situation I am in (see previous writing) and so, I will also be adding bits and pi…

I am writing. Part 1. The tragedy of hidden schools, in hidden communities

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This is absolutely brilliant from Leah!
Listen in for a gem of wisdom every few minutes and examples of classroom application from ‘Opening Doors’
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Can we turn KS3 into the ambitious years? Well hello there, and welcome to update #166!

"Too often, KS3 is treated as a rehearsal for GCSEs rather than a stage with its own intellectual purpose."

@marymyatt.bsky.social asks: Can we turn Key Stage 3 into the ambitious years?

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I'm starting to get some *wonderful* messages about Making Change Stick now that school leaders have had the chance to read it 😍

Check out my pod chat with Ollie Lovell here: open.spotify.com/episode/1gxX...

And check out the free taster course here: makingchangestick.co

sorry - missed this Alec. What's replaced with what?

just in case someone can let me have the link to importance of music notation - explicit teaching required (+ practice) implicit teaching then explicit + practice.

Oracy - tremendously important, particularly so since Covid. But puzzled that extent of v.poor reading, particularly in ie Islington didn't lead to more evidence-informed, inexpensive, targetted solutions.

Don't use LinkedIn but agree so much with co-ordination of early years agencies. Recently shown friend's prem baby pics reacting brilliantly to speech & movement,music etc at only a few weeks. So alert.

@alexjquigley.bsky.social Great admirer of the clarity and detail of your writing but believe v. strongly in simplicity + economy. I don't like to use bluesky to promote personal decisions but I am campaigning to replace EEF mix of trad and progressive.

Wes Streeting with the help of Alan ‘got rich in private healthcare’ Milburn, his adviser, are proposing throwing far more public money to the private sector. We can all celebrate making Private Equity bosses much much richer whilst we suffer.

This isn’t change, this is the Tories on steroids.

In July 2025, Gibb's impartiality was again questioned in an open letter from over 400 media figures to the BBC "we are concerned that individual w. close ties to Jewish Chronicle … has a say in the BBC's editorial decisions in any capacity, incl. decision not to broadcast Gaza. Implications huge.

The legislation is so ludicrous, even the police look embarrassed when called upon to enforce it.

Hundreds of elderly people charged under anti-terrorism laws because of a cardboard sign.

Although Kevan Collins must have exceptional managerial qualities I wonder how/why @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social would agree to pay c.50 times as much for 23 hrs per annum than the average worker receives. How many months/years wd the average worker need to work?

So, this happened… thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social