Ahmed al Ahmed, a Lebanese Muslim who owns a Sydney fruit shop, risked his life to disarm one of the Bondi Beach shooters. His courage gives me hope amidst the horror and darkness. Muslims and Jews are not enemies. Our futures, in the Middle East and beyond, are intrinsically bound. A true hero.

‘Blanket’ ban of trans people from gender-appropriate facilities likely unlawful. Sandie Peggie harassed Dr Upton, not the other way round. Employer guilty of minor procedural faults.

Following Eurovision’s decision to allow Israel’s participation, Spanish public broadcaster RTVE has withdrawn from the contest. The announcement split the screen between Israel’s performance and scenes of bombardment and starving children in Gaza. #Spain #eurovision #genocide

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...

On duty today outside the toilets. One cubicle. One child in cubicle shouting "My poo won't come out!" One child outside cubicle crossing his legs shouting "My poo is coming." How was your day?

Do join us on Tuesday for this free seminar www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/write-to-r... it’ll be useful! @kashleyenglish.bsky.social @debrakidd.bsky.social @jonnybid.bsky.social @jonny-walker.bsky.social @raesnape.bsky.social @primarychamp.bsky.social @benniekara.bsky.social please share! All welcome!

“If you go back a million minutes, you reach 2023. Go back a billion minutes, you reach the Roman Empire — that’s the scale of inequality we’re living with.” Zack Polanski on #BBCLauraK discussing inequality and why a wealth tax should be in the budget

💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school “He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers". Read on for more... www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Oh, Scotland 🤦

Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.

Riot Women. Happy Valley. Strictly. Sherlock. Line of Duty. Peaky Blinders. Traitors. Race Across the World. Planet Earth. Match of the Day…Are we really going to let the right wing culture wars coup at the BBC news department bring down the whole thing? It’s exactly what they want.

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Zeeland. What a stunning day.

Monschau, Germany. Felt like we'd dropped in to Fairytale Land.

This is a superb thread that captures and explains the frustrations many of us feel, but did not/could not articulate as well as this. 👏 Bravo.

Manchester economy thrives as other UK cities face growth challenges, Oxford Economics finds. www.business-live.co.uk/economic-dev...

>> A diagnostic alternative to ks1 #maths tests that help establish what KS1 children know and can do: atm.org.uk/news/ks1-tas...

Zohran Mamdani in New York Catherine Connolly in Ireland Rob Jetten in the Netherlands Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly The rise of the far right is not inevitable. If we work together, we can dare to hope.

Bit depressing really that the end result of a wholescale curriculum review is "we'll have a bit more oracy and loads more tests." Where is the vision and ambition?

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Good to see Bradford showing the little fascist Matt Goodman the door on #BBCQT - is it too much to hope that people are starting to wake up?

I guess they take the online safety and wellbeing of young people seriously here.

Heads up for #earlyyears peeps and all those interested in #maths and young children My new book due for publication May/June 2026 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

I'm tired of seeing discredited metaphors like 'architecture' and 'computer' to describe how the brain works. This description of the human brain is so very limited and lacking in complexity, creativity or even accuracy, that the pedagogy that is claimed to serve it must be equally flawed.

I will never understand why this doesn’t make more people quit X.

What are the chances that if the question were the other way round, the answer would be a resounding yes from Express readers?

Our Year 2 children understand this.

It's astonishing to anyone who lived through the 80s, that the Labour party now sit to the right of Tory grandee Heseltine.

Book Week next week and we're welcoming Matt Goodfellow, Katya Balen, Liz Million, Paddy Donnelly, Leo Timmers and Nathalie Dieterlé into school to work with our children. What an amazing end to this half term.

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

This is the level of crazy we've reached.

What the internet's for.

This is a really good article. It’s long, but brilliantly encapsulates what’s happening in the UK in removing trans rights. It clearly points out the massive legal overreach & how anti-trans lobbying is designed to elicit ‘disgust’ to drive centrists towards the authoritarian right. Share widely!

1200 people 'disappeared'.

Oh my word. This speech from Trump is absolutely insane. Rolling myth, personal opinion, a sliver of research (overplayed) and downright untruths into a lethal injection that can't do anything but undermine public health.

Brexit Boats. That's what they should be called from now on!

Dutch late night TV has its take

A week of all things early childhood...great to have @ruthswailes.bsky.social with us this week - both in and out of school!

My colleague @thejohnsimpson.bsky.social has done a terrific deep dive into the financial links between US tech billionaires and Tommy Robinson Well worth a read observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

This. This is the way to do it.

Is anyone with a conscience, working in education still on X?

Far right protest today: 29 - police officers injured 9 - protestors arrested Proscribed group protests: 0 - police officers injured 1,600 - protestors arrested We have Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper to thank for this absurd anomaly

The Government proscribed Palestine Action as terrorists by claiming that secret intelligence justified doing so Newly leaked intelligence report reveals that most of their activity: - Couldn't be described as terrorism - Isn't violent but focused on property damage -Most of that damage is "minor"

The European Parliament voted no to a request to pay a minute of silence for Charlie Kirk.

No other party says the basic truth: migration is good for Britain. The real problem? Inequality, soaring bills, underfunded public services. That’s driven by the greed of the super rich and the Labour government who serve them - not by migrants.

It is hard to adequately describe the betrayal to all humanity, his entire legacy, and place in history Keir Starmer is committing tonight, literally rolling out the red carpet for a war criminal instead of ordering his immediate arrest under international law

If you’re a working class woman and you make a tax mistake, you have to resign. If you’re a middle/upper class man who befriended a paedophile, and rapist to the extent they were ‘best pals’ you can just carry on with a shrug and just say “oh that’s a bit embarrassing”.