A summary recording based on a keynote I gave recently exploring the link between education and AI youtu.be/MBf-MiaB7_w?...

This is an amazing use of language. It's basically calling for a serious downgrading of people's pension rights while selling it as positive innovation. No mention of the potential deficit in people's eventual pension levels. Rather than an umbrella, they should have put lipstick on the pig!!

@rethinkingjames.bsky.social interesting discussion of polycrisis on your podcast - absolutely spot on. But until folk actually spend time understanding complexity, and preferably processual complexity it will become a fairly unhelpful metaphor. The revolution you discuss can't happen until

And with indifference from Labour concerning HE, and the threat of Reform in the wings, the UK is not too far behind. Amazing how countries seem more than willing to throw the advantage to China in the global research stakes.

@hywelroberts.bsky.social came across this today and thought you might like the horror angle 😉 youtu.be/apYwBHKkhdM?...

Listening to Farage's speech today - a carbon copy of Trump's approach before the last presidential election. Saddening that so many will be taken in by it. He's even got a version of DOGE going - because it's been so successful in the USA!!

It's pleasing to see that Durham have followed Lincolnshire and under Reform political leadership have cancelled climate change. If the whole country had the guts to do this, we could burn as much coal as we like and everything would be tickety-boo.

Another example of woke science. You should move to Lincolnshire, UK where Reform have cancelled climate change. We don't need to worry about it anymore. I'm sure their response to this would be to 'drill baby drill'. It's very liberating when you realise that reality is just what you imagine to be.

#wato just stop the interview. This is shocking don't give this oxygen. You're legitimising this malignant fantasist.

Fascinating talk by Andy Clark on YouTube exploring the dual nature of human perception in prediction and sensory perception. Where predictive models are stronger they can lead to sensory shifts - wonder if there's any way of showing if constantly telling children about the restrictions of cognitive

What is the point of Robert Peston's comments on @itvnews.bsky.social? If the government hadn't agreed a deal he would have been saying that they were letting the car and steel industries collapse. And the fact our position was better before Trump is a simple and blatantly obvious truism!!

I feel very fortunate to live in Lincolnshire. Since the council results, Farage, Tice and Jenkyns have made it clear that global warming will no longer impact on the coastal, fen and low lying areas of the county. They're bringing positive change already stating that under them such flooding will

So it appears that not only are Reform.and the Conservatives going to try to capture the support of a maximum of 30% of the population, Labour are going to join them. Nigel Farage is the black hole of British politics and everyone else seems happy to play along.

Narcissistic leaders have to take all the credit for success - meanwhile failure is always the responsibility of someone else!!

The defunct neoliberal system which has and is causing harm to societies is a breeding ground for a certain type of politician!!

Staggeringly obvious from interviews today - Reform has no clue as to what it wants to do. It's promised so many contradictory things to do many people that it has a completely incoherent position. Will be painful to see what happens in counties which have voted them in.

Currently writing about narcissistic leadership. So many 'yes, seeing that' moments in relation to US politics it's scary. The big silver lining is that narcissistic leaders are initially popular due to their energy and confidence.

Have been thinking about indicators of class the last few days. Is the question 'what is this called?' a good proxy? Middle class = lounge or sitting room, working class = front room 🤔

Have had a chaffinch taking an interest in the front room window the last day or so!! Noisy but beautiful.

From economic instability, through a desired resortification of Gaza, to the complete mishandling of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, Donald Trump has shown himself to be inept, uninformed, narcissistic and generally incoherent. And yet some people still laud him as a genius - totally unfathomable.

Nigel Farage should be asked about this every time he appears in the media, but no doubt @bbcnewsuk.bsky.social will be under strict orders to neither question him about tricky issues nor mention Brexit. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Why does our media continue to treat Trump as if he's an economic genius, as if he's got a hidden plan that will only emerge to mere mortals over time. He's surrounded himself with tech bros who believe in 'move fast and break things' and he's been bankrupted 6 times!!! There's no hidden genius.

Watched The Holdovers for the first time yesterday. What an amazing film. Instant classic.

This is why some countries are being taken over by autocrats bankrolled by the super-wealthy. They're not daft.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social 10% tariffs for UK don't begin to put right the economic bin fire of Brexit. Why do you let right wing fantasies go unchallenged?

As a narcissistic leader, as the tariffs bite and the economics go sour, Trump will start to blame others in the administration. He's already quietly doing it with Musk over DOGE cuts, he'll do it with others. Over time he'll become both increasingly isolated and more volatile.

With no clear policy or vision for initial teacher education this is merely waffle. Since taking office, it appears that as per usual ITE is the poor relation. Why is the DfE incapable of joined up thinking?

Reading a chapter by Kurtulmus (2019) called 'The Dark Side of Leadership'. Made me think that a paper on educational leadership & Star Wars would be really interesting - the emperor as MAT CEO, and Darth Vader as improvement partner, visiting schools to ensure compliance in a toxic organisation. 🤔

This is the problem that Bridgit Phillipson has. Having spent a lot of political capital telling teachers how important they are, and having lots of sausage-on-a-stick receptions, schools are going to be even more underfunded and will worsen the retention crisis!!! schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-warn...

A new blog post on Ofsted's new ITE framework www.bera.ac.uk/blog/educati...

Dear @teamlabouruk.bsky.social is Rachel Reeves part of a Reform sleeper cell? With news of more possible benefit cuts I'm finding it hard to come up with any other explanation.

What I don't understand about @teamlabouruk.bsky.social approach to stimulating growth, is how this can be deemed worthwhile if in the process you eviscerate the poor, disabled, and small businesses in the process. Dogged determination to follow the neoliberal mantra seems like functional stupidity

X man - the Elon Musk origin story is on BBC Sounds and is well worth a listen. Bonkers

Been working on the basic building blocks of what it would mean to create a Promotive Organisation. Think I might have the main dimensions 🤔

There seems little point pushing for growth if in the process you turn the country into an even more dysfunctional bin fire. I'd rather be slightly poorer as a country and have some humility than slightly richer and presiding over widespread misery.

One of the biggest problems Donald Trump has is that no-one in his orbit is willing to give him bad news or tell him he's wrong. Consequently, he's making an increasingly large number of bad decisions and is hastening the diminishing power of the USA, whilst being constantly blindsided.

It was the EDI what done it!!

Over half the population of Helsinki are educated to at least degree level - this is a sense of pride, not something to moan about because graduates aren't getting the right job straight away as measured by some narrow managerial metric. England is in the dark ages educationally!

From this month's Prospect. An important point to remember.

We have to be careful that what is happening in the USA doesn't become a form of black hole, sucking in time, energy, hope - the only way to resist the gravitational pull of the nihilism is to think about what we can do, however small to make the world a better place, and focus on that.

We're hoping to run a short-course for 15-17 year olds this July focusing on wicked problems and the Inner Development Goals www.ntu.ac.uk/course/short...

On Thursday we are giving a presentation at the Nordic Educational Research Association annual conference focusing on a Heterodox Model of Promotive Organisations, creating contexts in which teachers and students can thrive. www.slideshare.net/slideshow/th...

Europe, including the UK, should now begin the process of limiting ties with the USA, expanding links with other partners such as Canada, Japa, Australia etc. The Americans need to understand that bullying will not lead to people falling into line, but instead will lead them abandoning the USA.

Have been trying to create an alternative to the current bonfire which is the education sector - run on data, hyper-accountability, hierarchy and performativity. It's not conducive for anyone and doesn't begin to consider how we can help adults and students to make the most of their education.

The Silver Bone was a fantastic book. Looking forward to reading this now.

Whilst I can see why this might be seen as a good idea, it shows yet another task that schools are expected to cover when no extra funding is available & schools are already over-stretched. They're becoming the central social hub without the funding! journals.uclpress.co.uk/lre/article/...

Or perhaps reduce the number of measures completely so that schools feel less pressurised and hence are happy to allow more play. Haven't we worked out that more measures is never really the answer!!

If the Europeans can find common cause for their populations and realign interests more with the likes of Canada etc, the multipolar nature of the emerging global system will lead to a faster decline and final collapse of the USA's empire. Is the country now reigned over by a modern day Caligula?

And countries know that as US instability increases they will be better off linking up elsewhere. The Chinese must be loving all this.