Brilliant as ever. I remember using the original in one of my first ever history lessons.

Radcliffe should remember we immigrants and children of immigrants are here because of British colonisation and make a huge contribution. He moved to Monaco to avoid £4bn tax. His club Man U owes everything to migrant players and migrant supporters. He’s an embarrassment to the club and game.

How do we get students to write analysis like historians in their #history coursework? Here are 8 of the most common traps they seem to fall into, with 8 suggestions of how to avoid them istorikteach.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-le... #EduSky #historyteacher

#Soane2 Thanks for another fantastic conference @michaeldoron.bsky.social It is so lovely to see your school and, as ever, I’ve come away with lots of ideas and strategies, as well as feeling revitalised. It’s so nice to be surrounded by history people for a whole day. With Richard Evans too! 😁

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A world where our health records are used to power state-sponsored surveillance and target vulnerable communities isn’t so far away. And it's exactly what Palantir wants Keep Palantir out of our NHS 👇 https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs

I. Am. So. Tired. #teachertired

Thoughts on this mess. 🧵👇 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In today’s political news: one illiberal opposition politician defected from one illiberal party to another, while the illiberal party in government have ensured their next by-election candidate will be one supporter of illiberal government policy instead of another.

What resonates most with me in Mark Haddon’s childhood memories (different country, around the same time) is the apparent lack of self awareness in our parents. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...

You misspelled "BORED".

Let's remember when Russia invaded Afghanistan, the United States boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics. It's only fair that the same thing happens to the United States. @fifaworldcup The United States is not a safe place. The World Cup should not be played here. Move them to Canada and Mexico.

Britain is one of the best places in recorded history to be born, live, work and grow old. Lots of room for improvement obviously but combat the pessimism, it’s the forerunner of fascism.

@terriblemapshq.bsky.social Check out the really useful key on this map, produced by the Department for Transport. Potholes map rates council road repair progress www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Lewis Goodall humiliates Labour's Darren Jones who is unable to criticise President Trump for breaking international law by attacking Venezuela Humiliating, pathetic, soulless - Darren Jones, what a let down

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FIFA awarded him a peace prize 3 weeks ago

David Attenborough and a baby falcon in front of Big Ben is the telly we never thought we needed, but we so did.

An extraordinary, brilliant line.

Day 1/365 #FactOfTheDay On this day in 1502 🇵🇹 navigators discovered Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro means “River of January”. The Gregorian calendar starts today & was 1st adopted in 45BC. It’s named after Janus - the Roman god of beginnings & transitions who has 2 faces looking to the past & future

It continues - to describe those who continue to defend actions like this as “apologists” doesn’t seem to be enough.

Excellent blog. My main take on Twitter was always: ‘If this was a pub, would I visit?’ I can put up with disagreement, rowdy evenings, occasional fights. But hard life rule: I don’t frequent hooligan pubs.

This from @markgoodrich.bsky.social, is one of the only reasons I've found where I wish I were still on twitter - so I could share it to encourage others to leave open.substack.com/pub/markgood...

This is one of the best articles on this subject.

I’m not too good at recording what I read, so I’m going to try a pinned post for 2026. 📚

This is fascinating.

Another health breakthrough. (h/t Gav)

Rupert Lowe repeats his belief that "whole communities" need to be deported from the UK - attacking Nigel Farage for saying Lowe went too far by using that "whole communities" language to propose that all British Pakistanis needed to be deported from the UK.

Why does so much external school support fail to lead to lasting change? Schools invest in consultancy and CPD, yet a year later practice often looks much the same. 1/

Here is a convicted sexual predator sat next to a king at a banquet . Here is a peaceful pensioner protesting against genocide being arrested. Just working on the words for the learning to read series I am developing for children (reading words and reading a society’s priorities)

Tbf not -usually- interested in the monarch's speech. But seeing these grim responses, I might need to make an exception

Left: Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a placard in London Right: Labour's Baron Hain, "This gov is treating Palestine action as equivalent to ISIS or al-Qaeda, which is intellectually bankrupt, politically unprincipled and morally wrong. I'm deeply ashamed"

And we go back, almost full circle, to 2016 and Boaty McBoatface. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@teachertapp.bsky.social Interesting. I’d love to know the subject breakdown for this. Maths and sciences all done before Christmas, English and History taking no loads of wordy scripts home? 🤔.

Excellent post from Mary. As @counsellc.bsky.social says, "You cannot Rosenshine your way into a curriculum, and nor can you Rosenshine your way into mediating content in subject sensitive ways."

Right, she may have played for Birmingham City (and sadly not Aston Villa) but can you all vote for Karen Carney this evening on #strictly. Not least because she has the most beautiful Brummie accent, and she is an absolute star and deserves to win outright.

The complete Bayeux Tapestry has finally been released and proves that Bishop Odo had absolutely nothing to do with the illegal Norman invasion of England.

All we're going to learn is that rich and powerful men of all political and cultural stripes exist in a murky world where bad stuff happens without ever knowing who did specifically what.

@teachertapp.bsky.social Nice round number for me today. 😊

Urging Trump to destroy the BBC is unforgivable. Truss, Badenoch & Farage would rather betray this country than offer the BBC or the British government their support against a narcissistic foreign liar and a threat to democracy. It’s an appalling betrayal. www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/trump-...

Trialled this last week and I think there will be a lot of ‘visual mapping’ in the crawl to the finish line. Applicable to all Key Stages, initial connection of knowledge to the icons, push to discuss how they link and then explanation questions to finish. #historyteacher

I’m so sorry, Robin. This is a brave and principled stance and it can’t have been easy at all.

‘Who’s it going to be next time?’: ECHR rethink is ‘moral retreat’, say rights experts