Childcare costs have skyrocketed in the last 15 years As have rents As have bills As have the cost of living in general. The sneering Vine had small children 15 years ago. She has no concept of the costs now. 6/

Can you see the problem? She works full time on a decent wage. But her rent takes 2/3 of her salary. And childcare takes pretty much 100% of her salary. Yeh - that doesn’t work… Can you see it?? 4/

In a surprise to absolutely no one, the mum she’s describing is not claiming benefits as a “lifestyle choice”. This paywalled article is full of “in my grandparents day, blah blah blah” and nasty sneery comments about latest iPhones for spoilt children🙄 🧵 1/9

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I've had lots of requests to rerun my adaptive teaching webinar, so I'm hosting another one on 20th January. See the link below for details. Lots of practical advice on strategies for an inclusive classroom. Pay what you can to attend. Please share. Thank you! www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

@stella-b.bsky.social I've set the next adaptive teaching webinar up now, here's the link! Thanks for spreading the word. xx www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-ultima...

“I grew up in care, not prison. I say it like a fact, like my phone number, recited without thinking. But none of that matters, because they want an answer. ‘So, what did you do wrong?’” This is a great piece of writing by @matt-taylor.bsky.social

4. You see, the problem is this: History Reclaimed don’t know much about British colonialism. They’re not actually interested in it. They are a private company funded to prevent any truthful examination of the past that might challenge a right wing, white-centred version of the national story.

This is the first History Reclaimed attack on @davidolusoga.bsky.social’s BBC Empire series, in The Spectator. The thread on its recycled Telegraph version shows how criticisms of the representation of Mike Mountain Horse and the invasion of Ijebu are based on untruths. But else do they argue?

I’m so happy to see this. The lack of journalistic solidarity & collective action over the killing of journalists in Gaza has been distressing. Will @nujofficial.bsky.social step up & follow this lead?

What a speech! I wish someone in the UK would do similar on Boris Johnson and/or Nigel Farage, particularly focusing on what Farage was actually doing on Brexit night (there will be some who know, and records that could be called in by an inquiry.)

As set out in this thread, the causes of the court backlog are chronic lack of funding and absurd inefficiency. The government has made no proposals to address either. Their answer is to remove juries. Rather than fix the leaking roof, their solution is to burn the house down.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

How the backlash against Black Lives Matter reconfigured politics in the UK and USA: alanlester.co.uk/blog/how-top...

1. A speech I give to every class before I give back assessments. "I know how much you want to know what you got and how you did compared to everyone else. That's natural. However we are absolutely not going to share scores in this lesson. I expect absolute silence when I give them back to you..

Even at the time, Johnson’s wild weekend in Umbria felt somewhat suspicious. With this new information, you can understand why some are now calling it outright treasonous

Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on. We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.

This is the predictable consequence of rolling out a dangerous technology without safeguards. There isn’t public consent for police using these mass surveillance tools for exactly this reason.

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Although not teacher trained myself I do know a lot of teachers! Have just had a joyous reunion with some, 2 retired and 2 still teaching 40 years in. Fun to reminisce about their teaching practice days and how it felt to be flat sharing with them! Still as enthused about children’s lives

Have you seen Pavilion publishing are offering 30% off until December 5th? As one of their authors be a shame to miss it. The guide I have co-written to using supervision in schools genuinely does come recommended @talkingheadsoak.bsky.social pavpub.com/educational-...

I loved the book Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell. There’s soon to be movie of it. The only problem is I read it having watched Upstart Crow. So in my head the main characters looked like David Mitchell and Lisa Tarbuck. That’s not who they’ve cast in the movie 😂

Rightly lots of debates about growth this weekend - rightly because it was low productivity growth that saw wages entirely flatline during the 2010s.

This is an excellent blog on SEND, #EduSky

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THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

If anything the MSM seem to have stepped up their hostility. I think that they are deeply disappointed that the budget is actually ok and has seemingly been well received by the markets. Andrew Marr to his credit was fairly balanced.

NASUWT will not allow the spreading of misinformation and inciting violence to go unchecked - racism or bigotry of any kind must not be tolerated. See full PR in 🧵below.

November 25, 2025

This has happened against my wishes, and I’m genuinely dismayed by it. Not because people can’t disagree with my words, but because self-censorship driven by fear (Trump threatening to sue the BBC) should concern all of us. /3

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

November 24, 2025

Brilliant day. Thank you @supervisionmatters.bsky.social

Read article through www.thenerve.news w/ full timeline recounting all times Gill took money & what was required of him from his Russian contacts. A far greater & more in depth report than any from other news media. Also left me with sad thought as to how little a Reform MP's soul was worth.

As Trump and Putin work to crush Ukraine and destabilise Europe and Farage’s ally gets sentenced to 10yrs for taking Russian bribes, it’s a good time to revisit this excellent report on how the British rightwing has betrayed us all. Brexit was their weapon of choice. bylinetimes.com/2022/03/08/p...

“My NHS colleagues and I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Johnson no longer mentions them at all.” Hard hitting and necessary on the government’s covid complacency from @drrachelclarke.com observer.co.uk/news/...

"My NHS colleagues & I weren’t willing to let the bodies pile high in their thousands. Boris no longer mentions them at all." My piece on the responses to the UK Covid-UK Inquiry report that try to airbrush the dead away. Sincere thanks, @theobserveruk.bsky.social. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

US to sever ties with civilization.

This is a shocking article; it really upset me. I didn’t realise that such groups existed. Perhaps death rates in childbirth of both mothers and babies pre-20th century should be more highly publicised. And even ancient societies had skilled midwives who had learned thru an apprenticeship process.

Found reading these posts from @richardjmurphy.bsky.social of his alternative budget hopeful and inspiring. There are alternatives…the question is finding an alliance of folk willing to collaborate in taking action. Interested in others’ views @quietriotpod.bsky.social

The Alternative Budget 2025, Part 7: The politics of care www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/11... Governments have not cared about people for far too long. In my draft alternative Budget, I would change that, for good. Politics is nothing if it is not about care.

While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/

NEW: Former Reform MEP Nathan Gill is sentenced to 10.5 years at the Old Bailey on 8 counts of bribery by a Russian agent. The "ultimate source" of the funds came from "a close friend of Vladimir Putin," said Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb. Here is the evidence…

The Nerve has put together a detailed timeline. The full package is coming online later but here’s a pic of our beautiful print version! Please sign up for our newsletter & if you value investigative journalism, do consider becoming a paying member 🙏thenerve.news

Everybody knows gut microbes cause autism. But did anyone tell that to the microbes? Today, I look at the data for another common belief. open.substack.com/pub/grimoire...

This is clearly an intricate international conspiracy. The big question now is whether the democratic free west has sufficient cohesion left to deal with it. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

BREAKING: As Reform UK's former Welsh leader and Nigel Farage associate is sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for taking bribes to spread pro-Russian propaganda, @peterjukes.bsky.social reports on why it opens the door to a broader investigation of Russian interference in our politics

The #NathanGill bribery case is one of the clearest documented instances where money, messaging and political access intersect in a way that can be traced from a European politician back to figures in Medvedchuk’s and Medvedev’s circles - and thus to Putin bylinetimes.com/2025/11/21/n...

The more they dehumanize their targets, the more dangerous they become.