🧵 One of the biggest myths in education since I started teaching in 2010 is this: The knowledge-rich curriculum The myth is that knowing more will improve the quality of children's lives. It's built on the lie that knowledge = grades = good job = happiness. It's a lie.

Wow, what a brilliant discussion of the modern Manosphere, how it preys on male insecurity and how men prey on men while blaming women. Is the male loneliness epidemic in fact self inflicted? Thanks @thenewworldmag.bsky.social & ❤️ @jamesbloodworth.bsky.social www.podbean.com/ea/dir-z4zpp...

Had a great conversation with New Lines magazine about the manosphere and how it ensnares young men newlinesmag.com/podcast/the-...

Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.

Happy publication day to… The Unthinkable!!! 📚 🎉 🥂📚🎉 🥂 My mum killed my dad, I helped free her from prison. This is the story I walked, and what it cost. I never thought I’d write it and now, it’s out in the world! 🧍🏼👫🧍🏼‍♂️🏠 🚨 Order NOW! ➡️ www.hachette.co.uk/titles/david...

Amazing! From a C21st viewpoint, it’s tempting to assume that C19th sportswomen were all cowed victims of patriarchal fashion, with no choice but to exercise in long skirts & corsets. Nope! Sportswomen were ingenious at adapting & creating cutting-edge garments to balance their complex requirements

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch calls for end to windfall tax on oil/gas companies. They have been making record profits, fuelling inflation & poverty. Tory silence on tackling poverty, no remorse for two child benefit cap, austerity, privatisations, destroying the NHS and public services.

Spanish overtakes French as the most popular foreign language for GCSE students | The Independent buff.ly/6ruiQWg #langsky #xl8

So… does Iran have a right to defend itself?

Wrote this before the Iran strikes but it still applies. "Netanyahu is taking advantage of the Trump presidency to prolong the Gaza conflict, keeping his extremist coalition partners in the fold and himself in power." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

British crash survivor Vishwash Kumar Ramesh describes escape from plane in India

Air India plane crash: Families in Ahmedabad endure agonising wait for victims' bodies

Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.

'I had no particularly strong feelings about the subject, mainly because I did not possess a time machine and was therefore unable to foresee the chaos and damage – particularly to women’s rights – that the genderists would inflict in the next 20 years or so.' tomharris2.substack.com/p/mea-culpa-...

Universities are starting to get their houses in order & uphold privacy & dignity rights for women as well as for those with trans identities. Courtesy of Prof Jo Phoenix over on X.

The moderation and block tools on here are so advanced , if you see someone you don’t want to see on here, just block them. Don’t attack them. There used to be great give and take discussions on politics and news. Not so much any more. Doesn’t have to be this way

The responses to this pretty much proving your point. Yikes.

The lack of diversity of thought here is really hurting usage. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202... Opinion | Bluesky’s decline stems from never hearing from other side - The Washington Post

The replies on here may not be as racist as Twitter, but they damn sure are hateful. Talk AI: FU, AI sucks go away Talk Business: Go away Talk Healthcare: Crickets. Engagement went from great convos on many topics, to agree with me or you are a nazi fascist We are forcing posts to X

'The test results reportedly were carried out at Dr Lal PathLabs in New Delhi, which is accredited by the American College of Pathologists and certified by the Swiss-based International Organization for Standardization.' torontosun.com/sports/olymp...

'Imane Khelif’s sex-test results from the 2023 World Championships have been published for the first time, with the medical report appearing to indicate that the boxer is biologically male.'

'Italy’s Angela Carini, the first opponent beaten by Khelif, described how she had been punched so hard that she feared for her life.'

Should not have played out on centre stage in global sport. Completely unethical for both female & DSD boxers. The IOC knew the test results. But permitted Khelif to punch women in the face on the world stage. Early sex screen essential. www.telegraph.co.uk/boxing/2025/...

Please share ♥️ #TimeToAct #AbortionIsHealthcare Please write your MP & ask them to protect women's access to reproductive health care & remove abortion from criminal law. Please sign the petition ♥️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/de... Email template ♥️ brightonsisters.wordpress.com/abortion-rep...

As organisations like Unison flout the Supreme Court ruling on sex & gender, leaders can’t continue to hide behind judges and regulators. They need to explain to detractors why protecting women’s rights is so important. Including Keir Starmer My column in the Times www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

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See our website for our current groups. We will be adding more soon and increasing our reach as and when we can sustainably do so. We are currently a not-for-profit Community Interest Company with plans to convert to become a charity as soon as we can. momab.org.uk

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"University: A Good Idea". Excellent piece by @patporter76.bsky.social, reasserting the humanist idea of the university as a place to think, grow and argue; not as a consumer experience providing employable skills. thecritic.co.uk/university-a...

Loved reading and re-reading this beautifully crafted uplifting poem by Magi Gibson, and her explanation of the creative process behind creating an organic whole. Such a refreshing, human take on the theme of climate change. Link to her Substack: themagialipoetryshow.substack.com/p/the-girl-w...

Wonderful collection by Bradford poet Ralph Dartford. A variety of powerful, intriguing and moving poems in a range of forms. Loved his unashamed use of rhyme, his inspiring state-of-the-nation celebration of his home town Basildon, and beautiful sonnet tributes to his late brother.

Michael Foran: For Women Scotland: Is legal recognition of biological sex a violation of human rights? ukconstitutionallaw.org/2025/05/15/m...

'Overall, 75% of American adults say trans women shouldn't be allowed to play on female sports teams'. No surprise there. It's as clear as the day is long. It would be unfair & in some sports unsafe. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

The FA has had an ideological policy in place for years. That's because the FA was advised by 'Gendered Intelligence', a transactivist organisation that gave unlawful advice. Following the Supreme Court ruling, the FA's ideological & unlawful policy has been removed. Happy to help.

I cannot listen to this clip of Mara Yamauchi and Sharron Davies being interviewed on the BBC often enough. How many times did @marklowen.bsky.social try to get these superb female athletes to centre males in women's sport? No. Female sport is for females. x.com/i/status/192...

Supporters of Kim Leadbeater’s dangerous bill should listen to young people who see it will cause significant harm

A new documentary is a reminder that the film director and writer was a willing and eager propagandist for evil

Simon Armitage. Poet Laureate! Simon has a new book out next month. "Dwell". I'll be getting SIGNED copies! Blurb in the ALT test. If you'd like one, you can order it HERE. www.biggreenbookshop.com/signed-copie...

A poem for VE Day by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage. Commissioned by Historic Royal Palaces to mark the eightieth anniversary of the end of World War II. faber.co.uk/journal/a-poem-to-mark-the-80th-anniversary-of-ve-day-by-simon-armitage/

You can read two pieces of #poetry by Thomas Hardy and one by me in this weeks #60Odd poems. "Who was the old fellow standing stiffly at your side With his white moustache and balding head? O pray tell me! She cried" "There was no old man with me as I watched you" I replied

French workers encouraged to arrive late in protest over pension age rise from 62 to 64. UK state pension age to rise from 66 to 67, lower pension than in France. Rich retire whenever they want. Work till drop for the rest. LL Britons need French lessons on resistance and protest.

There’s more than one way to handle a tyrant and win an election. And some of them don’t involve selling your soul to fascists and overseas enemies.

'The resulting “loss of autonomy and dignity for lesbians” ...part of the court’s reasoning is one of the most significant elements of this judgment. Resistance to trans ... rights activism from lesbian and gay groups has been alternately dismissed and denounced.' www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The BBC is reporting that young graduates can’t get jobs even in supermarkets now (the ones they have interviewed are female) and, separately, that allowing males to do mammography jobs is being considered because the vacancies are so high. Can we not put these two things together?