Happy New Year

When you’ve taken down the Xmas decorations

1,157 people have just been announced as receiving honours in the New Year Honours list. Here’s why Benjamin Zephaniah turned down his OBE (Order of the British Empire) in 2003.

Similarly, re the Linehan tweet that got him arrested but then the charge dropped, imagine instead of trans people he'd invited folk to punch Jewish people or black people in the genitals.

A link for those so prepared that they’ll order their summer reading in advance ♥️ www.waterstones.com/book/the-inn...

A huge thanks to @bookyvikki.bsky.social for including The Inn at the Foot of Mount Vengeance on this list of 2026 Scottish debuts to look out for! ♥️ and what incredible company!! www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

Your admin Rob Manuel is brave enough to try Anon Opin Live. Come to the Leicester shows (12–13 Feb 2026). Let's argue - in person. https://sites.google.com/view/fesshole

If immigration is high, the government has lost control of our borders. If it's low, it's because the country is in such a mess that nobody wants to be here. Labour is never going to win these people over, and it should stop trying.

2026, we have a message for you 👇

On 5th July this year, Palestine Action was proscribed after a vote in Parliament invoking the Terrorism Act 2000. Since then, police have made over 2,700 arrests for peacefully protesting. These arrests are unlawful. Amnesty UK has intervened in the Judicial Review in the courts.

You see this picture and it puts into perspective that a lot of shit we moan and argue about really doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things. Can’t begin to fathom what that family is still going through. Hope their Christmas was as good as it could be #Diogo #Forever20 #LFC #YNWA

Oh my…

Whitehall celebrates on Boxing Day as Britain sold a record £20bn in arms around the world in 2025.

It’s quite alarming how many members of the British right are siding with the chaos: MAGA Christian nationalism & Putin. There’s no real conservatives left. The effects of Brexit, the anti-woke reactionary backlash, the pandemic, & X mean they detest modern Britain within a secular liberal Europe.

What's happened in the past week ❓ 🗓️ For more stories, read our latest calendar of race and resistance: irr.org.uk/article/cale...

Meet Negara Nazari. #NansenAward

Didn’t y’all platform Steve Bannon in 2018?

Honestly, if you support Reform you are either a) a racist scumbag; b) too stupid to realise you're the above; or c) not paying attention.

Americans - take that superfluous "s" that you add to Lego, and put it rightfully onto the end of Maths.

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

Fishing? Watch out for ⬇️ 😁

A wee Christmas big-up for @karingoodwin.bsky.social who never stops trying to shine a light on injustice everywhere.

On December 17, 2005, the conference ‘Catalunya Barreja’: Diversity, Cultural Mixing, and Social Cohesion, was held at the Museum of History of Catalonia, Barcelona: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... A short video-summary of the conference can be viewed here: 🎥 m.youtube.com/shorts/vazP3...

This from scholars who are supposed to be critically alert to the use of AI in education submitting to an editor of a journal who is a leading critical voice on AI in education. If we can get such total epistemic collapse here, what must it be like in other fields?

This is bleak stuff. Every social science student should understand how America got here. www.city-journal.org/article/manh...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

You lot need Dick Van Dyke singing Let's Go Fly a Kite on his 100th birthday more than you know.

The critical condition of the eight hunger strikers whose actions seek to draw attention to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, remind us of British colonialism, which is a structure of domination that continues to this day 🇵🇸⤵️

Hope this analysis informs and inspires successful resistance to Trump and big money in both parties that aim to destroy public education as a public good: futureschools.substack.com/p/this-year-...

Across crisis zones, gender-based violence programmes are dangerously underfunded. Underfunding puts refugee women and girls at greater risk of violence. #WithRefugees #WomenAndGirls

Teachers! Before you sign off for the holidays get this date in your diary for FREE lesson plans and resources that will help you tackle the trickier topics in the New Year! Be bold, be brave, be transformative and let’s educate for a better world! Sign up: www.eventbrite.com/e/1976381681...

"I didn't expect the people who created the big theft machine to use it to steal what I thought were my private interactions with the big theft machine!"

It is shocking that people have been pushed to take such serious action just to be heard. These events did not happen by accident. They are the result of the government misusing anti-terror laws.

My new book about Questioning is finally available on Amazon! www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Guide...

A wee podcast I made with the Civic Journalism Lab about reporting on the Polmont suicides. soundcloud.com/civicjournal...

Jimmy Lai's conviction is a blow to press freedom everywhere. In Hong Kong, the role of journalism in holding power to account is now treated as a crime. Jimmy Lai is a prisoner of conscience. The fight doesn't end here. We will not rest until justice prevails. ✊

"Teaching with Mental Ill-health". Read my personal experience in my Substack, find out what personal and workplace factors contribute to mental ill-health, and how to create a supportive culture open.substack.com/pub/teachwel...

…And Jesus was a Palestinian!

Absolutely delighted to be nominated for Feature Writer of the Year, Columnist of the Year, Reporter of the Year, and Specialist Writer of the Year in the upcoming Press Awards Many thanks to the judges. Thanks also to the team at @heraldscotland.bsky.social - and best of luck to the other nominees

If you have any questions about this research or the survey, feel free to get in touch with me – [email protected] @edscotmaths.bsky.social Survey link: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/angliarusk...

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Love Not Hate - sending prayers and healings to all those affected.

I have finally got around to writing about my recent month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand. With New Zealand currently reviewing its curriculum it was especially good to speak to some of the key players in its development and to teachers too. stuartphysics.co.uk/2025/12/14/l...

Heroic bystander, Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim man who put his own life on the line, and saved so many Jews. True safety in solidarity in action

In a quick scroll down my TL, I've seen lots of references to various right-wing nutters but none to intelligent leftist ideas. Which shows one of our problems. "Flooding the zone with shit" actually works - by stealing cognitive bandwidth from worthwhile things.

This. Kids are already people, not dough to be shoved in an oven. Schools should treat them like the people they are.

I think that's what they call "hitting a nerve"