So what's the point of his leadership bid then? What would he do differently?

Public First conducted new public attitudes research ahead of yesterdsy's marches. Tommy Robinson had 17% approval and 47% approval. He is barred from the Reform Party, as a former BNP member, but its supporters are split 35% approve & 31% disapprove

What Tommy Robinson is saying, which never changes, is less newsworthy than how many people he's addressing. It's a few paragraphs before the numbers appear; organisers claim millions, reality 60,000, less than half of his last rally. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So, Timothy Chalamet, if no one cares about ballet anymore, why is *every* channel on my TV showing Swan Lake right now?

Green manifesto for Walthamstow doesn’t even mention police, let alone commit to work with them-as Labour MP know nothing progressive about abandoning fight against mobile phone theft, antisocial behaviour, street safety or car crime and work with council, police and community to tackle them.

There's also a European Space Agency. The ESA provides life support, power and propulsion for the central module in the Artemis II mission. This has been achievable despite having a lower GDP per capita and universal healthcare.

Do all of the recent Ofsted reports include tables of GCSE results in which the most recent are 23/24, despite the fact that 24/25 was the most recent year of GCSEs? Might this paint improving schools in rather a bad light?

It is just as important, in my experience, for school leaders to make sure they are stopping initiatives that haven't worked, before they start to implement anything new.

4. Except we're building this on an assumption that's highly suspect at least. The @schoolsweek.bsky.social investigation into what was on EHCPs was hair raising. So much dubious practice. schoolsweek.co.uk/send-provisi...

1. The fundamental problem with the SEND white paper is it's working off the assumption there's lots of expertise and great practice available and the issue is it's too hard to get. The underpinning belief is if this support got to children faster and without a fight things will get better fast.

This was, as was Daisy's keynote last year, an absolutely brilliant and eye-opening talk!

Just naked racism from Farage and the Mail. Only British and commonwealth citizens are allowed to vote. It's not 'stealing' to legally take part in your own country's elections

The theory is that Muslim patriarchs forced their families to vote for a party led by a gay Jewish man; and if they hadn't exercised this coercive control their wives and children would have instead voted to deport themselves. This is not a normal level of cope.

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What if the school is financially viable on its own and doesn't want to join a group?

The LSE is the wokest Higher Educational institution in England? Well I guess it must be true...

I've tried to get in touch with one of the guys who founded it. It was such a great resource. If anyone knows Dom, I'd be happy to revive the site and host, share and manage it for free.

Senator John Kennedy in The Telegraph demonstrating that Trump isn't the only American suffering from dementia.

All European countries joining forces on defence is the only way forward in a dangerous world.

Interesting that that's how the response to the consultation was read, because I would be surprised if 'merge the behaviour and attendance category' was what anyone responding thought they were suggesting.

My favourite aspect of the new Ofsted toolkit for inspection is the way that for every judgement the level descriptor for 'exceptional' has word 'exceptional' in the first bullet point, 'transformational' in the second, and assorted synonyms for the next two or three points.

The fact is no presenter has ever had to leave the BBC for expressing conservative views, or even explicitly endorsing a right-wing party. Was never a problem for Jeremy Clarkson. Was never a problem for Andrew Neil. Was never a problem for Alan Sugar

Clearer and fairer Ofsted inspections, also harsher and a bit arbitrary.

This doesn't seem to me a very good argument against retrieval practice. That children can memorise things that aren't true isn't an argument against having them memorise things that are true. The fact that untrue and true things exist doesn't invalidate truth.

Surely this law is a gratuitous overreach into the charters of voluntary membership associations, and one which restricts freedom of association?

You're Cambridge, you've been around for over 800 years. What is the actual point of you?

I've used an MIS with AI. A student lost their timetable and asked me to print a new one. I put the request to the MIS. It generated a timetable of 25 lessons in which 11 of the lessons were correct; 14 slots were inaccurate, mostly correct classes at the wrong time; two classrooms didn't exist.

A brilliant post. Disciplinary literacy isn't a literacy specific to a discipline; it is universal literacy as manifested in a discipline. Etymology and morphology taught across disciplines provides a linguistic schema which aids access to all subjects. Prefixes and suffixes are cross-curricular.

It remains astonishing that after years of a Mayoral commitment to a nighttime economy in Soho, it is simply impossible to walk in off the street and get a pint after 11.30pm in a pub on a Saturday.

Interested in how many schools have adopted a voluntary measure by which Year 11s give up their games consoles in the run up to the exams to be returned after the conclusion of GCSEs. What was the take-up like, what was the impact?

It's fascinating to see how mistakes, corrected swiftly, end up permeating the discourse. Child poverty in England is unacceptably high for a developed and wealthy nation but it's a third higher than Norway (8.8%) not ten times higher. It's 12.7% not 32.1%. factcheckni.org/articles/are...

"Sir Keir told the BBC: 'Every minute that is spent talking about anything other than cost-of-living is a wasted minute in my book.'" OK, so why does his government keep banging on about immigration? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Extending Indefinite Leave to Remain from five years to ten years was to be subject to public consultation. This is, as far as I can tell, the public consultation. It does not ask whether we should extend ILR from five years to ten years.

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I always appreciate how reliable America is in making the case for England's education system.

If we're going to adopt the CAR EBacc deletion in the 2027 exam year, it provides a very significant problem for measuring school improvement using a value add metric. It is reasonable for stakeholders to want to see how schools did between 2024 and 2027, breaking Progress 8 makes that impossible.

It's hard to find words to capture quite how revolting, steeped in bigotry, irresponsible, morally unmoored, Labour has become. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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It's a fair point...

Aside from the pointlessness of showing kids a fictional drama rather than actually doing some legislating, I find it fascinating that officials thought that the barrier to showing a 4hr Netflix drama in school was the subscription, and not a spare 4 hours to show it. www.lbc.co.uk/news/uk/adol...

The list of people who think that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans should not come to Birmingham now includes West Midlands Police, the majority of UK voters, Tel Aviv police, the Jewish community in Birmingham, and, in a new twist, Maccabi Tel Aviv. Great work! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

I still have no idea what Number 10 was thinking intervening over policing. If they ‘win’ the standoff, Keir Starmer personally owns any incident that happens around the match. And he’s broken the precedent of interfering in operational matters, and so will be asked to do so relentlessly.

I'm not alone in having real concerns about the literacy standards of our student population in English schools. However two things worth considering for the secretary of state for education: 1) our literacy standards are amongst the highest in the world 2) that gain is post abolition of KS3 exams.

By 2028, statistically all holders of A-level English Language will be migrants.

In this thread Ben provides a reminder that when we're engaging with a public installation our form of engagement is not the only form of engagement, and the piece is not solely there for us to engage in. While there are obvious exceptions, by and large art for everyone means including everyone.

Is ICE working well in the US? Is any single British voter looking at the chaos of the US and thinking that they want it here?

If Farage doesn't hate modern Britain, then perhaps someone could provide one single good thing he's ever said about it.

What improvement in government policy could teachers be seeing? Education policy changes under Phillipson don't seem to have addressed any of the complaints that teachers had about Tory policy, but have rather tinkered with things that were generally thought to be fine.

This is at the heart of the political insanity of this idea. The sole argument made for ID cards isn't of interest to those who don't have a strong principled opposition to them, and ID cards are on principle entirely toxic to those who might otherwise buy the salience of such an argument.