#CoreMaths Trying to make and share more resources. I used this yesterday to get students to improve their written answers. They were asked if statements were true or false and how they would defend their opinion in a sentence or two. docs.google.com/presentation...

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Net zero is one of the many areas where commentators are out-of-touch with public opinion in Britain. There is still broad support for cutting carbon emissions - except from among Reform supporters, who are the outliers.

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

I've always dreamed of Radiohead writing songs about me, ironically or otherwise.

The MET is a disgrace and needs to be scrapped. A home for racists, sexists, homophobes, domestic abusers and rapists. I'd genuinely feel safer in a windowless room with reform voters.

If you ever think English is not a weird language just remember that read and lead rhyme and read and lead rhyme. But read and lead don't rhyme, and neither do read and lead.

A great day of sharing ideas and collaboration at @STEMLearningUK today with @GNMH_MathsHub, @SYMathsHub, @ArchimedesNE, @WYorksMathsHub and @GaynorBahan, for the 1st @NCETM Operational Management forum of the year.

#Alevelmaths Used these with Yr13 before 2D kinematics and it was great to see the students applying their SUVAT equations in context. We went on to use the highway code stopping distances to compare 80 to 70, and 40 to 30. Will use again, thank you to @deegs23.bsky.social for sharing.

Protest is fundamental to our democracy - we rightly celebrate people like Nelson Mandela who changed the world through protest But this govt is clamping down on our protest rights with increasingly authoritarian laws Thanks @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social for making this point so powerfully

I'm trying to fly less. But it turns out I didn't have a clue and who flies and how much. Fewer than 25% of people fly more than once a year. 50% of people don't fly each year.

The only thing better than British buses? Free travel on British buses! With New York heading towards free bus travel under their new mayor, can York hope for the same?

November 1965. Sixty years ago. An official White House report on the dangers of climate change. Nineteen sixty-five.

A rail worker credited with saving multiple lives during a mass stabbing on a train has been named as Samir Zitouni. The 48-year-old's actions on the Doncaster to London King's Cross service on Saturday evening were described as "nothing short of heroic

The first thing Yaxley-Lennon did on leaving court was to thank Elon Musk for funding his legal costs. That's Elon Musk who has repeatedly called for civil war in the UK. As of typing this - all of the major politicians and platforms maintain a presence on X and it is time for them all to leave.

The clock is ticking! Each and every ballot paper returned gives us the strength to keep going and get the settlement that we, our students and our communities deserve. Vote YES ✅ for a #NewDealForFE

To be fair, they’re losing MPs at a much faster rate.

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK... 78% are murdered by a partner/ex Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety In fact, they voted against them...

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT "We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

Unbelievably tragic piece about all the crossing guards injured or killed on the job in the US. One school district in South Carolina has had 4(!) crossing guards hit or killed on the job. These are people trying to fix the problems caused caused by traffic engineers, and are dying doing it.

This just happened in the The Netherlands today. The centrist "D66" party, running on a platform that includes a universal basic income, won the most votes, positioning its leader to become the new PM. You heard that right, UBI is now a moderate position there and seen as a pragmatic solution to AI.

Weighted Polling Average (30/10/25): RFM: 30.5% (+15.8) LAB: 19.1% (-15.5) CON: 17.5% (-6.8) LDM: 13.4% (+0.8) GRN: 12.6% (+5.7) SNP: 2.6% (+0.1) Others: 4.2% (+0.1) Changes w/ GE2024. electionmaps.uk/polling/vi

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

A majority of voters, and a plurality of white voters, think that Reform is a racist party with racist policies.

Halloween. Via @thebikinglawyer.bsky.social

Over 5% of the Reform councillors elected in May have now either resigned or been fired. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

On Monday, former Bellingcat journalist Tristan Lee and open-source researcher Jennefer Harper will launch Decoherence Media, a new digital publication covering “authoritarian and anti-democratic movements, with a particular focus on the far-right.”

Farage: epic grifter

The day this becomes a reality is creeping closer. Imagine Lee Anderson as minister for Digital, Media and Sport; this is the outcome.

I'd never considered what underwear Katie Hopkins wears until now. It's important we don't forget that a VPL is the last thing the fallen would have wanted. And the Christmas discount is a cherry on top of this steaming turd.

Off the top of my head, there have been four egregious examples of weapons grade public racism in the last couple of weeks - Jenrick; the Express hack; Captain Concrete & the Reform woman. The way they are treated by employers, punters & wider media, will directly influence how much more we see.

Chicago's mayor Brandon Johnson is a one-man bulwark against racism. A real Mensch. #humanity

GiveDirectly gave $550 to every adult in the Khongoni subdistrict of Malawi, reaching over 85,000 people. It was enough outside money to double local GDP. Extreme poverty plummeted by 88%. Inflation was negligible. Now they're going even bigger by giving $550 to 185,000 people - an entire district.

That's not how royalty works. The whole idea is that we, the masses, don't get a say. It's an all or nothing idea. If you don't want one of them to be called royal then that all have to go.

The 'why?' here should be fairly obvious. Many progressive Labour sympathisers in Lib Dem constituencies vote Lib Dem, leaving a residual pool of Labour voters that is less socially progressive than average, meaning a higher proportion today end up defecting to the right.

BBC News - Paralympic cyclist Steve Bate set to swap saddles for sandpaper - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... This sounds uncomfortable at the very least. A horrible image for Sunday morning.

Hang on… Victoria Derbyshire says no country has raised serious money with a wealth tax. Then says Norway only got £2.7bn. But it’s 1/12th the population of the UK! Scaled up that would be £32bn. That’s serious money. Now…

There's always a tweet.

A play in three acts

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/

A toast to the fallen. Good #respecting 8/10

Congratulations to bicyclists: you're one of the most efficient movers in the animal kingdom! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-hu...

Three UK neo-Nazis jailed for between eight and 11 years over terror plots

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley. Perfection.

A great read on movement between political parties over the last year. Worth the subscription alone. open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t... @dylandifford.bsky.social

There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system. Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts Spending is controlled, not spiralling Worklessness is near record lows My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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A friend invited me to a local #yourparty meeting. I went along not sure what to expect. But I had a question: why Your Party and not The Greens? A 🧵 on my experience with some horizontally structured direct democracy of a left wing flavour.