Not even one day www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

pains me though it does to say it, @hern.bsky.social is extremely good at explaining complicated technical things and I came out of this one feeling cleverer rather than angrier

‘Frightened to get out of their cars’: Britain’s toxic race debates threaten overseas care workers Horrendous! www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

If you’re aged 18-65 please consider becoming a blood donor. It’s not painful and will make a huge difference to someone else’s life. Would-be drivers to be encouraged to donate blood www.bbc.com/news/article...

Why are both the UK’s major political parties running out of talent? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10... Why, in other words, are our politicians useless?

I hope people will forgive me for posting a screenshot of this lovely feedback from elsewhere. ☺️ #EduSky

We watched porpoises from the kitchen this morning then a snorkel later on.

Searing truths about Israel, the West and complicity in genocide from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I'm not convinced that 'SEN units' in mainstream schools is what #inclusion means. Imo inclusion is not just about being in the same physical location. It's about an attitude and approach that includes learners with SEND as part of mainstream provision.

Byline has become one of the most important sources of news in the country! Amazing what a difference it makes when you're not owned/controlled by a foreign billionaire x

October 12, 2025

🏘️ 'This wasn’t just a structural change; it was a philosophical one. We moved away from outsourcing and towards a model that is embedded in our education ecosystem'

Good point, we had a thriving youth work BA where I worked 2007-13, in a cash-strapped northern city. I helped to write and validate a progression MA but it never really took off due to these massive cuts, which never made national headlines.

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Have you always thought that some work, whether making, caring, or educating, must be more valuable than shuffling wealth to make a short-term profit? If so, it turns out you're right. Quantum theory can explain why. www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...

An academy trust is to launch a 'one of its kind' higher education institute for non-graduates working with children to train as teachers, social workers, counsellors and SEND specialists

Left populism without most of Corbyn's extensive baggage, expressed clearly, is clearly going to find a lot of support, not least when he'll also take on Reform on their own ground. My scepticism of simple answers will remain, but broadly still I think positive.

It’s Banned Books Week. I think the Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most profound and important books of our time. Also one of the most banned books in America. Not because of the distressing content. She wrote a few paragraphs about crushes on girls and starting her periods.

October 9, 2025

Really excellent piece. Maybe we are reaching the gradual realisation that education cannot be 'scientised'.

Did you see this from #Biesta recently? www.bera.ac.uk/blog/opening...

Super interesting thread and the article is a good thinking point. Over reliance on what ‘evidence’ works misses out for whom and mediated by whom. Quantative research provides broad brush strokes, the qualitative research and skilled practitioners will always be key too

✍️ Gibb it a rest! Nick Gibb’s Reforming Lessons aims to defend his ministerial legacy, but instead reads like a desperate attempt to rewrite England’s education failures By Joe Hanley @joehanley.bsky.social

Yes. I think what he and others are really frightened of is that education might teach people to think critically ... And once we can do that, we have the tools to challenge the vicious/false/ misleading/disingenuous/etc claptrap that Farage and his like keep on delivering

In fact, @chrischirp.bsky.social is already booked to come on and discuss it before the end of the month. A x

They lionised a woman for calling for hotels full of asylum seekers to be set on fire. Now they're lionising a man who set fire to a Quran in public. The far-right, whether it's Reform UK or Conservatives, are championing the cause of those who will violently tear our society apart. Reprehensible.

The National Union of Journalists condemns the Conservative Party's decision to ban myself and David Hencke from their conference as a threat to media freedom which "undermines the Conservative Party leader’s repeated pledge to fight for free speech" bylinetimes.com/2025/10/08/c...

There was a 19% increase in recorded religious hate crimes against Muslims last year in England and Wales, according to new ONS figures. This compares to just a 3% rise over the past year among all religious groups targeted by hate crimes

Superb session with some fantastic leaders - free webinar on Ofsted changes plus expert Q&A. Register below!

'Abject failure' as UK's homeless deaths rise - including children news.sky.com/story/abject...

Wouldn't that be quite the twist: Wales and maybe Scotland refuse to introduce a levy on international students, thereby massively undercutting universities in England and convincing some applicants to hop over the border....

Our contributing editors: Adjoa Andoh, @carolvorders.bsky.social @misanharriman.bsky.social @mchshe.bsky.social, Brian Eno, @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social & Michael Morris

Worried about rising bills and getting by? Keir Starmer has the answer: try chewing a flag! | Aditya Chakrabortty

There is no point disciplining a dysregulated child. Wait and discuss it with them when they’re calm. 😊

🆕 Anti-Woke Wake: It the Tory Party dead or just resting? ☠️ 💥 Tory Conference debrief 💥 France latest political soap 💥 A deal on Gaza - but antisemitism on the rise An amazing episode with special guest @samfr.bsky.social. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/5JQF... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/q...

We need to keep our protected green spaces safe! It’s harder for developers to make a profit rehabilitating empty homes and brownfield sites so they’re pushing for this for their own ends! Fight this!!

I am just preparing to speak at this in November. invt.io/1lxb2homl01

But behind the gimmicky AI images of an optimistic, high-tech Britain lay at the very least a desire for mass deportations, and, at worst, a whites-only nation.

In June, Tory leader hopeful Robert Jenrick, who recently complained about not seeing white faces in a Birmingham suburb, declared he is an Anglofuturist. We got inside a secret Anglofuturist Discord server to find out what that really means 👇 🔗 hopenothate.org.uk/2025/10/08/r...

Total sellout. I can’t believe anyone who has any respect for the professionalism of teachers and for the future of education for democracy has anything to do with him.

It’s Banned Books Week. This documentary is terrifying and you should watch it. It’s about the far right targeting librarians (including with violence). I know teachers in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who have been targeted. The homegrown fascists use this playbook #TheLibrarians www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

"We haven’t come all this way, Katwala says, “just for Elon Musk, a man born into an apartheid state, who’s polarised America, to come and start a civil war here by breaking the law" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I *really* enjoyed talking Project 2025, Trump, Reform and Farage with @alisonjourno.bsky.social and @jonnelledge.bsky.social Listen in link below!

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

Andy Street, former Mayor of the West Midlands, sets Robert Jenrick @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social straight on integration in Handsworth and claims of it being a slum. with Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social and Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social on #Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

This. #everyoneforeveryone

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education" Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects [CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]

Straight out of the Project 2025 recipe book for authoritarianism.