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‘Old men in stripey trousers’ and their ‘favourite hobby… searching for an enemy.’ Every generation. But this president is certainly notable in searching for enemies amongst his own population, and his nation’s (previous?) allies.

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Nik Kershaw - I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10h

How on earth did this happen? As a programme leader, I used to check all module grades were entered and work my students’ degree classifications out by hand before the exam board, just in case of anomalies. #AcademicSky

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Family of student who took his own life say university ‘will be held to account’

Ethan Scott Brown died after being wrongly told he would not be eligible to graduate from the University of Glasgow

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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AdyBee 🐝 @adybee.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Exactly 🎯 @bearlypolitics.co.uk wrote a great article for @eastangliabylines.co.uk explaining the advantages of immigration. Although immigration can create other problems at both ends , and is still only a short-term solution. The country should be having a grown up conversation about birth rates.

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Daniel Walzer, Ph.D. @danielwalzer.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't normally post political things but this is awful. Young children forced to make a decision on something they don't understand, and without legal representation.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Unless of course there is a planned immigration policy…

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Also bear in mind you don’t get a state pension if you haven’t made sufficient contributions throughout your working life. You get a benefit called ‘pension credit.’

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What would you do with people too old to work who have nothing other than the state pension (one of the lowest among western nations)? Just let them die?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It’s a good question. It’s down to govt mismanagement. It was intended, in 1945, that each generation after the 1st would be paid out of a fund they’d paid into - National *Insurance*. But instead, each generation has paid the pensions of the one above, & successive govts gaslighted us about it

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I would say the first step here is to ensure, to the extent you can, that children don’t have easy access to hard pornography. And that means personal phones that can just ring and text with very limited access to apps. Full access to the Internet on tablets and laptops through an adult log-in.

theguardian.com

Thousands of child-on-child sexual offences reported at schools in England and Wales

Exclusive: Average of nearly five sexual crimes a day against under-13s were reported to police between 2021 and 2025

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My granny’s stroke left her so badly disabled she had to go into a nursing home (of which there were sufficient numbers in the 1960s). No one could explain to her she wasn’t in a workhouse medical building. It was a fear that ran so deep in that generation.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

… but in the first decade of the 20th century, was sent to one of the big Oxford Street stores in London aged 13 as an apprentice shop assistant. The girls were housed in big dormitories. They weren’t badly fed, but they worked long hours, and only got Sundays off. Visits home were rare.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The workhouse was punitive, however. Families were split up and everyone over eight worked. Parents lost custody of their children, who were often sent out to live-in employment if possible, domestic work in particular. My other granny, whose mum was a young widow avoided the workhouse…

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Sunderland Lollipops @sunderlandlolly.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Burnham tells us Triple Lock must go because it's unsustainable. We’ve heard this before. Women’s pension age rose from 60 to 65, then pension age to 66 and now 67, then 68 - each time justified to keep pensions "sustainable". Why are people accepting this? #apathy #boiledfrogs

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Yes, exactly. I don’t think the core issue *is* really pensions, it’s younger people getting a worse deal than their living elders, with insanely high uni fees, unaffordable housing and etc. Burnham is right about the antidote to this-stop big corporation extortion tactics in public services

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Or, prior to the 1940s, if their families didn’t have sufficient funds to care for them, they went into the workhouse, usually into the hospital section. My granny’s granddad died in a workhouse. When she had to go into a care home due to a stroke, she thought that was where she’d been taken.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Those over 67 who didn’t pay into National Insurance for sufficient years & don’t have income or savings get pension credit to the level of the state pension. Without this, I guess as they got older, they would just die of hunger or cold when they could no longer work. I presume no one wants that?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The reason some pensioners are better off is because many paid into both National Insurance and workplace pensions to save for their old age. We are taxed at the same rate as working people on pension income, and the state pension is paid on the number of years you paid into National Insurance.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

But govts tend to spend all the money taken in tax and borrow some more, so here we are. Boomers didn’t complain about paying their parents’ pensions; in fact they created the triple lock due to the British state pension being one of the lowest amongst western nations, which is still the case…

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It had the potential to work because the boomers hugely outnumbered their parent generation (the clue is in the name), so if their payments had been invested in a stable economy they would have yielded a nest egg. The model was Union ‘friendly’ societies that paid modest sick pay and pensions.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With medical advance, we also (statistically) live to be older than previous generations, but for a substantial % the later years tend to be expensive with respect to care required. It’s all a bit Soylent Green. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent...

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Soylent Green - Wikipedia

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

To be fair, most western governments are struggling with their pension burdens, because in most, state pensions don’t come out of savings, but taxation, and each generation after the boomers had less children so the % of retirees vs those of working age has grown steadily larger.

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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

HMI visits were stressful. Because you wanted to show the school at its best. And it was a dialogue with, as you say Helen, recommendations for resources or even reading. When a HMI spoke you listened. Most OfSTED inspectors I’ve met haven’t exactly filled me with respect.

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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In fact, having worked with someone of limited teaching ability, knowledge and experience, who somehow managed to get a job as an inspector, my faith in the selection process hit zero. I would not have wanted this person inspecting amy school I was working in.

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Simona McKenzie @signoramac.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why has anything to do with education only about schools now? It's hard to find anything about Early Education. EY settings have also been affected for years by OFSTED inspection carried out by inspectors who never worked with the under 5s? Have they forgotten the NOT so Bold Beginnings?

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Lorna Walter @lornawalter.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Totally agree bring back HMI & LAs and put the money into school not an inspection REGIME! Also so much money lots to schs with Academies!!! IMHO

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

No, get rid of OFSTED and go back to the HMIs @lucympowell.bsky.social They have been a cancer creeping through the fabric of education for decades. For which we must have paid billions by now.

theguardian.com

England school inspections to be overhauled again after barrage of complaints

Exclusive: Education secretary sends Ofsted back to ‘drawing board’ as teachers raise serious concerns about new system

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Three years gone by since this article was published and you are still losing good staff through stress and burn out. Why on earth are you giving millions of £££s of public money to this horror show? #EduSky @lucympowell.bsky.social

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

‘We felt like criminals’ – teachers talking Ofsted

Over 3,000 teachers have contributed to a spreadsheet laying bare the anguish of Ofsted inspections

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Helen Hill @helenjmhill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

HMIs were so knowledgeable and could recommend resources and training. It meant that inspections felt like a dialogue between professionals.

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fizz56.bsky.social @fizz56.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Yes!! Bring back HMI at least they had experience of teaching and had to give support. As a SEND specialist I really appreciated inspection by someone who wrote Advanced Maths books!

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Ralph Berry @rdrberry.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So .. I recall HMIs and LA inspection I'm.That old.... If we had Eric Bolton grade HMI And LA area based inspection with place based working .. And area based initiative.. We might just break free to real improvement.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

‘We felt like criminals’ – teachers talking Ofsted

Over 3,000 teachers have contributed to a spreadsheet laying bare the anguish of Ofsted inspections

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Prepared for autumnal weather…

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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests. - FDR, 1941

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A++ @andyburnham.bsky.social @labourstart.bsky.social that’s the Britain my family (on several sides) fought for, since Chartism. You’ve almost convinced an old cynic like me to rejoin. Never thought that would happen! www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Politics Live - Andy Burnham’s Speech to the Labour Party Conference

Andy Burnham delivers his first speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as Prime Minister.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Politics Live - Andy Burnham’s Speech to the Labour Party Conference

Andy Burnham delivers his first speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool as Prime Minister.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

As we Brits say ‘ah, bless.’ It really must seem like super intelligence in his mind, in comparison to him.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I think because the key message that it taught us is that it is over for all of us the end, and it’s not just a TV programme. And, for Gen Jones in particular, that this is us. We had those hairstyles and wore those clothes, now we too, are moving into the final act with them.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Measuringe the value of educacioun by returne on ynvestment onlye ys lyke measuringe the value of a garden by the weight of the floweres

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Yet, despite all of the [waveth handes 360 degrees], still so much beautye yn the worlde. So much art made by so manye, as strategyes for survival, consolacioun, courage, joy. And you, out ther, makinge somethinge beautiful. You are the best.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A.I. and corporate lingo are dragging language ynto drugged realmes of vague, airy, plastic nothingnesse: glitz and hyperbole wythout meaning. Language must have fur and clawes, make the floorboardes creake and leave wet dirtye footprintes. Wordes are rayne and fyre and stone. Wielde them. Save us.

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No To Racism @notoracism.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Dear Human Race

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Nearly a year has gone by since I wrote this article, and Brits can now escape to post-WWII Yorkshire in Season 7 of All Creatures Great and Small in the UK on Channel 5 Thursdays at 9pm, and on catch up. The series will premiere in the US from 17th January 2027 on PBS.

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All Creatures Great and Small: a Yorkshire phenomenon

The stories of Yorkshire-based vet ‘James Herriot’ are renowned. A Thirsk museum offers a fascinating insight into his life and times

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Teresa M @teresa.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

"Whilst in another school: “[An inspector] asked a non-verbal child what safeguarding was”." Read the stories here and tell me Ofsted shouldn't just be disbanded. Egomaniacs on a power trip.

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Teresa M @teresa.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026

"Ofsted refusing to postpone inspections in the week after pupils or teachers had died, insisting on carrying out full inspections in the 40C temperatures: “we had to teach the full curriculum, including PE, and were criticised for the children not seeming engaged as they all sweated and cried.”"

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