Every time Nigel Farage's parties have lost an election he has blamed it on "cheating" by ethnic minorities and every time he receives huge amounts of media attention for doing so. The only problem? No evidence of cheating is ever found bylinetimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

"Family voting"...

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Some news on my next book.... www.thebookseller.com/rights/sam-f...

This post is the single best advert for the fact that proper local journalism matters. If Jim’s team hadn’t put the pieces together quickly, this wouldn’t have been stopped.

New post just out: "SEND help" Everything you need to know about the government's special educational needs plans. Covering: the problem the govt are trying to solve; key proposals; three big issues that will cause problems; and the politics. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/s...

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Half way through the interview. Enjoying it a lot. Glad I have signed up for your newsletter or I’d have missed it. I haven’t seen many of your posts here (algorithm?)

Join us on 4th March for a discussion of Issue 26 of Impact. 🔍 We'll be joined by issue authors to discuss articles covering developing teacher agency, wellbeing and belonging, removing barriers to career progression and leadership, and more. Sign up here: https://chartered.pulse.ly/lfpyxbd2sn

Please read this, if you have even the barest understanding about our society you will not be surprised about the findings, still it bears spending a few minutes to take in just how much power and influence lies in the divisive hands of the "elite."

@oliahercules.bsky.social will cook borsch tomorrow on #SaturdayKitchen 10am live on #BBCOne then at #BBCIplayer. She asks us please to spread the word, especially among 300k strong displaced Ukrainians in the UK+hopes this will be a good boost of morale. #standwithukraine @nigella.bsky.social

A python's heart grows up to 40% bigger within 48 hours of eating a meal. Researchers found that their blood had a specific cocktail of fatty acids that turns their blood milky white. When researchers injected a low dose of this mixture into mice (carefully and over time) the mice hearts grew too!

Why do we measure the impact of university based on graduate earnings? Would you measure a hospital based on the later earnings of the people it treats? Why not use assessment data to measure university impact instead? substack.nomoremarking.com/p/does-a-uni...

I love the look of this!

Instead of asking "who should pay for someone's degree?", we should ask: Does it make sense for someone earning £55k to have a marginal tax rate of 51%? What will that do to savings, to productivity, to life prospects, to their chances of buying a home or having children or starting a business?

I do enjoy the winter olympics but I can never take it as seriously as the summer one just because 90% of the sports are falling down snow in slightly different ways.

Another great teacher speaker in the Science Strand for TTR Connect 2026 - Faye Briggs! Join us in Manchester on Saturday 14th March 2026 here (for free): ttradio.org/connect2026

I am sure my gran had one of those 😆

Anonymous Post: As a new headteacher, I'm facing a dilemma. A staff member, though kind-hearted, seems stuck in the past with her teaching, missing the mark for vulnerable learners. She's defensive when approached.

Very good piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com.... The US under Trump 2.0 has shifted towards authoritarianism as record speed but unlike other examples (e.g. Putin, Orban) it's happened by bypassing institutions rather than permanently corrupting them... www.ft.com/content/b474...

Honestly, I can’t bear to read the article having seen what Ben says. ‘Exasperated’ does not cover it.

I find it wild that if you’re verbally abusive to a police officer or a nurse you can be prosecuted, but we are saying that when it happens to teachers it’s not even appropriate to send a child home.

Waiting for the Mail and Telegraph to realise PR is now massively in their interests.

Best of 2025: When AI Knows the NeuroMyth – But Won’t Tell You! theeconomyofmeaning.com/2025/08/09/w...

What came first the chicken or the egg timer

2025 NERDFIGHTERIA CENSUS!! www.surveymonkey.com/r/868BGP2

The Onion, 23 years ago. theonion.com/no-blood-for...

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Good and important piece by @chrisgiles.ft.com. One implication: if you look at the revised figures for 2014-5, then frankly any talk that 2015 was a 'shock' win for David Cameron starts to look really silly and you just go 'oh yeah, figures': www.ft.com/content/5aff...

This is an excellent article. www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...

Day 5 of the 2025 Appvent Calendar Welcome to Day 5 of the 2025 #24DaysOfAI Appvent Calendar! It is fair to say that today's tool is one that I have mentioned in almost all of my 85 keynotes, inset days and workshops across 2025 and shared even more widely in conversations on social media and with…

Day 1 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar Consensus: Evidence at Your Fingertips The first day of this year’s Appvent Calendar sets the tone for the month ahead. With so much attention on rapid advances in AI, it feels right to begin with a tool that brings us back to what matters most in education:…

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About time too 😉

Less than 1000 signatures to go

BOOM! Now over 90,000 signatures. Let’s get it to 100,000 and get this done! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

What do you get when you mix the best selling single of the king of pop with the lately departed queen of MAGA? This is what we get: a parody of Billie Jean about #mtg #maga #marjorietaylorgreene 🎶🕺 youtu.be/Xr0_HN9KNCs

SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten. "I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA

This was very cathartic to write, and I'm grateful to @samfr.bsky.social for giving me the space to try and set out just why the two-child limit must go, and go in its entirety [mini 🧵]

Said deep dive on this is here, thanks @oldandrewuk.bsky.social. TL;DR: the headline numbers aren't plausible. More research would be good on this topic. It would also be good to figure out what's happening here, as the underlying dataset is nationally important. open.substack.com/pub/andrewol...

"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love." Brilliant. ~AA

This is a welcome antidote to Jenrick’s bunkum by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the much-missed Benjamin Zephaniah youtube.com/shorts/GHUKF...

Above all, the police approach in that decade culminated in the unlawful killing of 96 people and decades of cover-up.

The old Saudi brand was “austere theocracy,” but the new one is “fun, fun, fun, but still with beheading.” - brilliant piece with so many laugh out loud moments:

Worth a read!

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚 #amindofmyown

This is just incredible work form @greigarjohnson.bsky.social and pals: *this* is how you do HHGG. Somebody please given them the budget (but, crucially, not *too much* of a budget) to do the rest, please. Please. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-431...

Strategy Grand Old Man, Lawrence freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social weighs in on the latest Russian provocations. Do read: samf.substack.com/p/russian-pr...