The NHS makes me feel so grateful, the staff so wonderful, the whole idea of it is just so kind & tender.
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The NHS makes me feel so grateful, the staff so wonderful, the whole idea of it is just so kind & tender.
Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam
Oh boy! What a headline...
Ask yourself:
"What am I being asked to believe?"
"Who am I being told to blame?"
Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.
Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...๐งต
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Old farthing with bird on it
Animals on money?
Perish the thought that patriotic British people would ever countenance such a thing.
Screenshot of Architects' Journal article featuring Briggs' work at Bilston
Contemporary photograph of Bilston house designed by Briggs
Ella Briggs, a Jewish refugee from Austria in 1936, designed housing for Red Vienna and council homes on the Stowlawn Estate, Bilston.
Barbara Penner lecture โBriggs, Biographies, Blue Plaques: Reflections on Feminist Architectural Historyโ, 16 March, 2026.
www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/eve...
What are the more narrowly economic lessons from this shock? The first is that we need to reduce our vulnerability to shocks in the availability of fossil fuels. For the US, the net effect of big rises in fossil fuel prices on aggregate real incomes is modestly positive because it is a net exporter, though the distributional effects are malign. But the opposite is true for almost all other industrial countries. Their need to invest in renewables, in order to reduce vulnerability, is clear.
Good summary here of the economic consequences of the Iran war by Martin Wolf here.
Especially pleased to see this paragraph. There is an economic imperative to switch to renewable energy (as well as a climate one)โฆ
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Progressively cutting other taxes would do the same thing (help those hit hardest) while not saying, implicitly, "hey folks, energy is plentifulโgo nuts!" when it isn't.
Politicians in many places also thought that the right response to the Ukraine war was to cut energy taxes. This subsidizes consumption rather than doing everything possible to reduce it (not to mention that it racks up debt).
Interestingly, this piece is really about secondary school practice.
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Principles of Boogie Management ย ย Don't blame it on the sunshine Don't blame it on the moonlight Don't blame it on the good times ย Establish a collaborative working environment coupled with individual accountability to prevent a blame culture from developing in the first place Brian Bilston
Principles of Boogie Management.
What a shame that this article doesnโt manage to mention the purpose of reading? To understand and use that understanding?- ie to comprehend.
It would be good to get back to why we readโฆ and consider that.
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...
Still not the same as leaning out from the old open platform on buses (nationwide) and timing your running drop to the road. Not, in my case, always successfully...๐ฎ
Starbucks claims of ethical conduct and supporting farmers are a sham.
It books profits from the purchase and sale of green coffee beans in Switzerland, dodges taxes.
Shifts profits. 18% mark-up on all global coffee purchases before re-selling to other Starbucks subsidiaries.
A poem for Mothers' Day on Sunday. How about getting schoolkids to write ones of their own?
You can ask Americans to make sacrifices but you have to convince them why it's necessary, and crucially, you have to do it before the sacrifices are required.
The Trump administration's instinct is to promise everything will be pure upside until it's not and only then scold Americans to be stoic.
Jake Scott, MD o @jakescottMD "Iranians who think they're going to live." That's not a military objective. That's genocidal language - a direct threat to kill indiscriminately. Secretary Hegseth is unhinged and needs to be stopped. William Dalrymple 0 @DalrympleWill Sounds less like the language of liberation of a people and more like a
i really donโt like these testy brawling locker room guys in charge of military forces.
1. Getting students to engage with Macbeth at a high level can be tricky. Formulaic responses, or surface-level analysis often get in the way. What do the highest performing students do differently? ๐งต๐
The National Theatre will stream The Importance of Being Earnest starring Ncuti Gatwa for free. The performance from the winter 2024/25 run will be on YouTube from 12 March. A watch-along premiere will be at 7pm GMT, during which viewers will have the opportunity to interact through chat/polls. ๐
For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times says @thecccuk.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/d163...
"Achieving the UKโs net zero target by 2050 will cost less than a single oil shock and bring health and economic benefits while insulating the country against future costs, the governmentโs climate advisers have forecast."
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Have just completed my response - & agree with Gillian. Opportunities to emphasise the BBC as valuable for media accuracy, education, training broadcast staff (lots of roles there), but I wanted to commend their arts work (orchestras! choirs!) that's meant so much to me as a teenager and long after.
![LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE.
[This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him].
After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts:
Unloosed, unheralded,
You soar toward me
Across the dying afternoon.
bright disc of childhood,
Long since thrown wide
Of Youth's green imaginings,
Your slow declining arc
Figures a sky-written truth:
We will all succumb, and soon
To earth's hard oblivion.
[The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibpyscry7bddmufqnk7wsfuxsflv4fkn4brwvkzxqurjkz7z67yoi)
LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]
Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore
This is Alan Manning's infernal circle, which he sets out in his excellent book:
Lovely audience tonight at the Northlight Gallery to help launch VIANNE in paperback - thank you, all, to Helen Bramley for the chocolates, and to Read Bookshop in Holmfirth for organising! ๐ซ๐
The second is just, you know, the English language. It's a hell of a competitive advantage!
The overwhelming number of people trying to make a better life for themselves stop somewhere in continental Europe, because the marginal upgrade of living in the UK is not seen as worth โdying in the Channelโ for.
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
New: Chair of board at under-pressure Mossbourne Federation stands down
educationuncovered.co.uk/news/chair-o...
Apparent signal of the first concrete impact of safeguarding review which had raised criticisms of a Mossbourne schoolโs behaviour management policies.
"The letter acts as a counterpoint to those in the diaspora backing Reza Pahlavi, the exiled son of Iranโs former pro-western monarch, and who support the attacks on #Iran as a prelude to regime change."
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Guardian headline: Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about effect of student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from Afghanistan and Sudan
Shabana Mahmood is too extreme even for Yvette Cooper.
Never thought I'd see the day!
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
From the Tehran Times - photos of the school CHILDREN killed by an AMERICAN tomahawk cruise missile. The headline: TRUMP, LOOK THEM IN THE EYES
(Ht @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social )
