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Been around the block, retired from education, sort of, not retired from life. Now got time for watercolour painting, riding my bike, and playing blues, though not all at the same time. Been glory hunting with Liverpool since Shankly’s days

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He told us that we were too late to help. He didn’t want or need our help, because he had won the war (excursion).
Now petrol prices are rocketing, and Americans -Trump included- judge a president by ‘gas’ prices, he fears for his dwindling popularity

14.03.2026 15:09 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

My guess is…
He’s thick as two short planks

14.03.2026 15:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s the same as when you pull into a supermarket petrol station, or watch an “what the papers say” program - all you see are the headlines on the billionaires tabloids.

14.03.2026 14:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And now, after rudely telling us in the U.K. we were too late, the war was won, Trump now wants us to help open Hormuz because he and Hegseth were too stupid to actually think what the Iranian response would be.

14.03.2026 14:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Programming is the same. You don’t learn all the commands in a language before you start writing programs.

14.03.2026 12:11 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s the same learning any language. I was put off learning French at school because all we seemed to do was learn tenses of verbs and lists of nouns and adjectives/adverbs.
was genuinely shocked when I encountered kids being taught conversational French. Here was the missing link.

14.03.2026 12:06 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He always projects his own failings and crimes onto people who oppose him.

14.03.2026 11:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Another grubby little greed monster
Why are they incapable of enjoying anything other than actual acquisition

14.03.2026 08:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Only Fascists fear Anti-fascism.

14.03.2026 08:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

He’s going to land marines on the Island, isn’t he?
Boots on the ground to secure the oil he and his petro buddies so desperately want

14.03.2026 07:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You cannot re open coal mines. It’s too dangerous.

14.03.2026 07:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣”Ahhh Sir, do we have to go home?” Was one reaction I got doing just that.

13.03.2026 19:06 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Churchill once said “Never trust a Tory..”
He was in the liberal party at the time

13.03.2026 15:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As I have said elsewhere, one of the most underrated activities is teacher reading a book to the class. Again though, it isn’t “measurable”. There is no column for “enjoyment” on the Spreadsheet that the education bean counters use.

13.03.2026 15:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When it comes to buying intelligence I don’t think that guy has paid his standing charge

13.03.2026 15:37 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Controversial opinion, but the Stones haven’t done a decent track since Mick Taylor left.

13.03.2026 15:29 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

indeed. I was a primary teacher before the shambolic National Curriculum, it was great. Then we were crushed by attainment targets and levels, and a curriculum that needed 120% of available time. From Kenneth Baker, a man who didn’t know that primary ended at 11. Unlike private schools. True.

13.03.2026 15:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

He’s so full of cruelty. He has no joy in life, only destruction. Music, art, laughter are all missing from his life. He only knows hate and revenge against anyone who has overshadowed his facade of wealth. His parents created a monster, unloved and sadly unlovable.

13.03.2026 15:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s not rocket science. Homer was telling stories how many centuries ago, and his works will last longer than any of the things Gove did, although the damage is still long lasting.

13.03.2026 12:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Reform are only interested in Crypto aren’t they?

13.03.2026 12:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Children love to be read to. One of the most underrated activities in school is the teacher reading to the class. Voicing the characters, building drama, and of course closing the book and saying we will continue tomorrow. It models reading for pleasure and makes kids want to read.

13.03.2026 10:45 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1

The ruler thing is a step up from the lolly ice stick pointer thing so the plazzy phonics brigade probable use that as “evidence“ of ”progress”.
Children need to see a value in reading. A “return” on their effort invested. Pleasure is the biggest dividend reading delivers.

13.03.2026 10:41 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s all about his ego. Like Spielmann he isn’t bothered about the impact his failing organisation has on people.
Schools have mission statements about how they care for their pupils and staff. Lets be honest, he presides over an organisation that is based on bullying people.

13.03.2026 09:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The photo.🤣
“This is me with my tough guy face on…”

13.03.2026 08:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The National Literarcy Strategy had many good ideas in it. However, the rigid time frame and the proscriptive delivery style meant that a lot of the joy of reading and writing was lost. Add in Gove‘s ignorant meddling, and we have narrow formulaic reading and writing.

13.03.2026 08:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Anyone with a soul who has witnessed young children chanting ”phonemes” in a group, pointing to each sound with a lolly ice stick as they go, will attest to the mind numbing boredom exuded by the participants - including the adult leading the chanting

13.03.2026 08:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Poverty?
You clearly haven’t seen the poverty first peoples endure, or seen the homeless begging in Vegas.

13.03.2026 08:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What the original poster doesn’t understand…
You don’t have to be the driver to appreciate a good car, hence the market in expensive limousines with drivers.

13.03.2026 08:14 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“We had to destroy Ben Tre in order to save it…”
“We had to destroy Iran in order to save it…”

12.03.2026 19:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Farage said the ban on handguns brought in after Dunblane was “ludicrous” & should be lifted, arguing that they should be legalised & licensed again.

He really doesn’t get it, that handguns in the wrong hands can cause loss & devastation.

All because he wants to be like Trump.

#NeverVoteReform

12.03.2026 19:08 👍 94 🔁 25 💬 17 📌 1