Well after a couple of tight rounds of voting Stepfather Christmas by @ldlapinski.bsky.social just beat The Grumpus to be our class novel leading up to Christmas! The other books have all been claimed by pupils who wanted to read them and there's a waiting list for 2 of them! #UKKidLit #EduSky

This is contemptible from Labour! Immigrants make phenomenal contributions to life in the UK - working in pretty much every sector, bringing cultural diversity & creativity to our society. This scapegoating must stop! Labour must stop pandering to the far right!

Next week we celebrate #BookWeekScotland which this year has a theme of Friendship. What great books that celebrate friendship would you be recommending? #KidsBookFriday #UKKidLit #KidLitUK

UK Health Secretary keeps taking donations linked to private health (& gave your NHS data to Palantir) The latest donations bring the total Streeting has accepted from private health-linked interests since 2015 up to £372,000 “What do those backers think they are getting for their money?"

BOOK GIVEAWAY!!! I'm not on social media much at the moment, working hard on my new book, which I feel sure will be my best one yet when it's done! In the meantime, I'm giving away signed copies of all my books so far. Follow & repost to enter, and say which book you'd like & why. Closes Dec 5!

Sickening rhetoric by Home Secretary. Denying access to human rights isn't "protecting the public". This is Labour further demonising those seeking asylum in language very reminiscent of the far right. Yes, some break the law, so should be prosecuted within the law. Removing rights is not the answer

We cannot forget or hide these abuses and crimes. Israel must be held to account #Palestine

Just posting this without comment. Because there is no comment that can explain this decision by the Scottish Supreme Court.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

I know most are focusing on the Epstein files here but got to say, the list of everything else she said "we" (Congress) are to be fighting for is positive too.

Notice it's moved on from just trans people to ALL lgbt people!

Says the dude swimming in donations - or are they investments - from private healthcare interests. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Watching the love and effort poured into caring for Zzclclmmm (you’ve got to hear his name to get it right!) is such a joy. He’s settled in with everything he could possibly need to feel safe and cosy in our classroom. #RME #Refugee

A long 🧵 but it's given me a boost this morning.

There's a reason some authors make my favourites list and will always be recommended by me. Alongside being great authors who kids love to read they're always genuinely good people ❤️ ⬇️ #UKKidLit #EduSky #ScoEdu #Sudan

CREATIVES! A gang of us are organising an auction raising funds for mutual aid groups in Sudan, amid the war on civilians. Can YOU contribute to the auction? Perhaps a piece of art or music? Signed books? Embroidery? Half an hour of creative mentoring? Sign up here! www.sudancoup.com/auction

RFK is making it so that people in the USA are more likely to get sick by laying waste to vaccines. Meanwhile many everyday Americans are reaching the point where they just won't be able to afford their health insurance. They're going to kill people with this. UK - Resist Reform & fight for the #NHS

The most successful, longest running scam in America is the Health Insurance Industry. They bring nothing to the Healthcare Table.

UK folk, read this thread, be warned and share your support for the #NHS today! #SaveTheNHS ⬇️

An interesting thread and I can't argue against what Samuel Fielden says here.

You'd never guess Lewis Gibson is Scottish 😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 brilliant free dance from a few weeks back that I just came across. youtu.be/rIo42zew43M?...

🔴 “Every Released Palestinian Has Spoken of Torture, Starvation, or Medical Neglect” Diana Buttu describes a systematic regime of torture inside Israeli prisons, noting how all of the 1,700 Palestinian hostages released recently “have spoken about torture over and over again. There isn’t one...

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It's class novel nomination week for my class. We're reading a chapter a day of a different book & vote on Friday. The shortlist ⬇️ on initial reaction I think Alex T. Smith might win but let's see! We read the first chapter of Ice Children today @mglnrd.bsky.social it caught their interest #UKKidLit

Welp!

All wrong, all wrong, all wrong variety.com/2025/digital...

This guy thinks I can't come up with examples of how #Starmer has moved the #LabourParty to the Right 🙄 I've said I'm done teaching for the day but if anyone feels like educating Sam then please feel free!

Also a very clear point to be made- we are remembering, not celebrating. One of the only deaths I'll ever celebrate will be that of this feckless Felon.

Almost a year on and Nigel Farage has still not given any explanation as to what was going on here bylinetimes.com/2025/01/30/n...

Brilliant! 👏

This morning my class used the @cwgc.bsky.social website to look up the details of the 5 Commonwealth War Graves in the cemetery at St Magnus Cathedral (our closest one). The one that always gets me is Private James Mackay of the Seaforth Highlanders, died 11th November 1918, aged 21. #LestWeForget

#ScoEdu #EduSky

“Some of the rhetoric we’re hearing – racist rhetoric, divisive rhetoric – that frankly I thought we had dealt with decades ago is returning to politics and it makes people feel very scared,” Says PM who in May sounded like the unlamented Enoch Powell with his "island of strangers" speech 😡🙄

We’ve produced a lesson plan and accompanying resources to support teachers to engage their students in discussions around flag raising and the far right. This lesson will be launched at our next webinar ‘Curricular Justice in a Complex World’. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/curricular...

Centre for Teaching Excellence are looking for experienced teachers to join them on a part-time, secondment basis The deadline is now till the 12th so for anyone considering it there are still a few days left! www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

At a special meeting of the SNCT Teachers' Panel today, there was unanimous agreement by the teacher trade unions to accept the pay offer tabled by COSLA last week.

This is what the EHRC's shitty Code will result in. All. The. Time. It's already happening, but if the Code becomes statutory this kind of gender-policing-based-on-appearance will become an order of magnitude or two worse.

This is a good move. Got to say though stark double standards in that they've moved pretty quickly to do this but kept on funding and sending surveillance planes over Gaza and giving that information over to Israel for 2 years! So they trust Israel with information over the USA?

Pedro and I are here today, so come say hello and buy a book! - Michael

It's interesting (I think) that most of the arguments of those saying the BBC must be protected and continue, are very like the arguments for the continuation of the monarchy. The alternatives would be worse It's a backbone of our British culture The people who would choose the alt can't be trusted

Oh look. There really are "no go areas" in England. And they're marked by St George's flags www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Oh @soozuk.bsky.social please please please, we've all been good (well trying) can we please have a Nads response to this? 😂

Great letter in the Herald. I can confirm the abuse feminists get from transphobes is worse and more threatening than what I get from anti-abortion men www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2560...

I didn't watch 'Breaking Ranks: inside Israel's war' last night, I knew I needed to sleep afterwards. But I will be watching. The accounts it contains underline what millions of us have been saying globally for the last 2 years & confirm #WarCrimes and #Genocide by Israel against Palestinians #Gaza

An incredibly harrowing but worthy watch on ITV - Inside Israel’s War - just on tonight, with Nuremberg style admissions from IOF soldiers who were partaking in the genocide in the early stages. It goes into detail about Israeli propaganda, attitudes towards Palestinians, etc.

Nov 10-14 is #AntiBullying Week in the UK, and I’m grateful and proud to have a poem on the @brianmosespoet.bsky.social children’s poetry blog about this important topic. Check out the full online anthology here: brian-moses.blogspot.com?m=1 #kidlit #poetry #antibullyingweek

Farage’s contribution to straight news has been as meaningful as Goebbels’ contribution to truth telling