Presenting a potted history of Ofsted in Session 3 at @researchedbrum.bsky.social . Join me in the Library to look at missed inspections, missing schools, poor financial records, and misleading statements to Parliament, as we seek to answer the question 'Does Ofsted make sense?' #rEDBrum

Quite glad that the big story in British politics is whether Andy Burnham will apply to stand in a by-election and not people being gunned down by state militias. Solidarity with Minnesotans resisting this barbarity.

Merry Christmas & Glory to Ukraine!

Drake Catches Himself Singing ‘Not Like Us’ In The Shower

Walthamstow please help me spread the word about these latest developments in this incident by watching and sharing this video- an arrest has now been made but we need to repair the damage done. #racismintheuk #racismcaughtoncamera #loveWalthamstow

My favourite aspect of the new Ofsted toolkit for inspection is the way that for every judgement the level descriptor for 'exceptional' has word 'exceptional' in the first bullet point, 'transformational' in the second, and assorted synonyms for the next two or three points.

If Trump and Musk had a falling out, and if Musk is no longer involved in politics, why is the Trump admin using levers of US foreign policy to get Musk’s company out of well deserved fines? This is the moment, Europe. Stand up for yourself, your laws, your freedom against foreign interference.

I'm not exaggerating when I say following @boltsmag.org rn will unlock money for our journalism. A generous reader, @russ41.bsky.social, has offered to donate $1 for every 1-person increase to our follower count. If you're not following @boltsmag.org yet, it'll directly help fund our reporting!

ICE is going to target this community next. I hope Tim Walz does the right thing here and not only refuses to cooperate, and outright pushes back. I voted for him as governor of MN (back when) because I believed him to be a man of integrity. Let's hope I'm right.

Seems quite an nteresting wayto spend a Wednesday evening! Sign me up

Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

The tide is turning. Even the Telegraph is now admitting the damage the Brexit deal has done to the economy.

Reform has lost 1 in 20 (5%) of the 677 councillors it gained in May elections In Kent alone, it has lost 14% of its councillors... -11 have been expelled -6 suspended -9 have left the party -1 has defected to UKIP -9 have resigned from the council altogether www.politicshome.com/news/article...

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Tomorrow Nigel Farage is proposing a bill to take the UK out of the ECHR. Not content with messing up our future with Brexit, he’s at it again. Don’t let him get away with it. Ask your MP to join us in @labour4europe.bsky.social saying not this time Nigel.

If racism has no place in his party, then Nigel Farage should prove it by withdrawing the whip from Sarah Pochin immediately.

Given the party's refusal to act on Pochin's brazen racism, it should be as socially unacceptable to vote for Reform as it was in the early 2000s to vote for the BNP. And we should be prepared to say this to people's faces.

I know it's only a proxy, but kids caring about the work they do in their books (+ how 'much' work they have) does matter. On Proud Fridays™️, KS4 kids come up to me to show me their exercise books and say 'Im proud of this because I struggled with this last year, but now I have alot of green ticks'

Don’t give these people benefit of the doubt. This racist rant isn’t an accident. Or ‘speaking out of turn’. It’s designed to fill our airwaves with people debating ‘if’ non white skin is a problem. Not Reform. Diversity isn’t the issue, hatred is. Don’t indulge it, vote for it or tolerate it.

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who creates the lively art and music scenes if the rent is too high? who makes cultural life? who serves you food or washes your dishes? who creates the fancy little restaurants that draw you to urban living? affordable housing is at the heart of what makes city life worthwhile.

Nigel Farage insists racism has no place in his party. But Sarah Pochin’s racist comments tell a different story. He must withdraw the whip or admit that Reform tolerates blatant racism.

"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?" On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.

Brava @msjasminemn.bsky.social! Great piece.

This was always going to be the direction given how little illegal immigration there is. This is going to do us all damage for years to come.

“I take pride in knowing that I’m contributing to some of the best readers in the world…that is the message I want Labour to be shouting from the rooftops. A message of progress, of hope, and yes, of pride – not a zero-sum game rooted in debating whether someone is British enough”

It took over a week to get my thoughts together on this, because I was (and still am!) oddly emotional! Thank you to the scholsweek team for giving me the space to put down my thoughts (and for the editing, because ya girl can get wordy).

As the rhetoric and policies around migrants on indefinite leave to remain becomes more hostile, a London writes for Schools Week on how this is affecting her - and the potential impact on other such teachers Thanks to @msjasminemn.bsky.social for a superb piece schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my...

Well said @msjasminemn.bsky.social! She might also have mentioned the Tories’ extreme ILR policy which is rightfully getting a lot of attention on Bluesky from political commentators today.

What a whirlwind of a half term- literacy interventions up and running for the most vulnerable, more staff being trained to deliver the fluency and vocabulary intervention, and my EAL team (and the children) thriving. But boy I'm knackered. Now to move house! (Only .5 miles away, E17 foreva 😂)

This is something that's been worrying me since it was announced a few months ago. I've been here for 4 years, have invested in this country, believe in the future of it, am literally teaching the children of it, but the thought I won't be able to be treated as a citizen is disturbing to me.

Idk whether the greens will, but there is another party that has something nearing 100 MPs that might be worth chatting to...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Reform’s call to deport ALL people who legally make a life here - paying taxes, forming families, volunteering and even being elected - needs calling out. Contrary to Farage, ILR doesn’t = criminal. They ARE net contributors to our economy. An expensive, hateful & stupid plan.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

I don't read many edu books these days, but this is fabulous. Required reading for anyone who wasn't around when the changes happened and maybe for those who were, but have forgotten the dark times. Despite a rocket few years, I still feel so lucky to be a part of education here 🙏🏽

Appalled by the violent scenes of police being attacked at the Tommy Robinson rally today. Those responsible should face the full force of the law. These far right thugs do not speak for Britain.

The co leader of The People's Party attended an event with the leader of The Party of the People in Newcastle. Labour is dead, says Zarah Sultana as she calls for patience over party launch | Zarah Sultana | The Guardian share.google/9zfKvfghnBMs...

Someone on the tube was listening to a video without headphones. So I gave them a dirty look, turned to the person I was travelling with and said 'ugh noise polluters'. That person now has headphones in. My good deed for the day.

First day as a deputy head. No longer a SENCO.

Me rn, thinking about tomorrow:

The first Nazi book burnings were the biggest archive of trans research that existed at the time.

Ma'am, this is August.