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Evanitamushroom

@evanitamushroom.bsky.social
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Gardener, scientist, retired Headteacher, still working in schools.

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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 7h
Its very hard to get a good photo but the indigo plant has been amazing this year. Flowering for months with the flowers carried on long delicate stems. A lucky find.
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Mary J @primaryteachermary.bsky.social · 21h
Instead of putting our time and energy into making changes and doing things in school that the inspectors might want to see, how about looking at the children in front of us, working out what they need most, and finding the best way to do that. That is how we will make schools better.
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Result isn't everything. History, effort, or skill adds value & meaning. A hand-knitted jumper is different from one bought at Primark. A golden Temu ornament will never be the Sistine Chapel. I held my breath through this video - an office furniture maker in Ankara. Amazing. #GoodMorning, everyone.
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political-economy.bsky.social @political-economy.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Well done to Rachel Reeves
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh no, Burnham does NOT propose this. All he does is promise to continue the plans underway for a long time under Starmer. Starmer included the promise in the 2024 manifesto. In January 2025, he set up the Independent Commission on Adult Social Care, chaired by Baroness Louise Casey... 1/2
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Michael Tidd @michaelt1979.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Such a valid point. I think often what people mean by more SEND training, is that they're politely saying, "go on then - you show me how you think this should be doable"
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New Post whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/09/youn...
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Young people in Mental Distress. What could it possibly be?
Many years ago in Mexico City, a friend and I came across a stall selling magnetic health bracelets. My friend (a scientist) asked the stal...
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Rachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
But he's prime minister now. He has a duty to do the hard stuff, not just the easy feel-good "I'm just a guy" stuff. If he didn't want that he should have stayed mayor of Manchester
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Kev🇬🇧🍺 @splootman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Burnham is a populist so he waits to see what everyone else thinks before 'making a decision ', he leads from the rear. Starmer took the tough decisions, even if it made him unpopular, that's what REAL leaders do. Country first, party second.
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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Starmer knows more about law than Burnham could hope to know. He tied loose ends as he KNEW the pitfalls,Burnham hasn’t a clue about this at all. He’s drowning by his own ego.
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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
@metaphorqu.bsky.social I think, reading the Mar UKGov document there may be a glimmer of hope that the rules are made retrospective to the March date once bill passed and money given in interim has to be returned. 🤞 Lords will attend to it.
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Ben Ansell @benansell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Honestly, might be better if government ministers kept their half-baked views on education to themselves
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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I believe some of these polls were manufactured to get Starmer out of No 10 (as well as some media repeating & running with it). It has a falling domino effect - if we’re told it often enough, some will begin to believe it. One such poll on KS was mentioned in the Ch4 Reform donor sting video.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
Starmer took office on 5 July 2024, the Southport riots started 25 days later, Burnham took office on 30 July the balaclava thugs pranced about in Dover on 5 September, 48 days later. There is no comparison. Starmer started work immediately, if you remember he cancelled his holiday to deal with it.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 10/09/2026
www.gov.uk/government/s... This is from July 2025, Starmer was working closely with other countries. His response may not always have been perfect or suited everyone but it's bollocks to suggest, as many do, that he supports genocide.
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PM words on Gaza: 29 July 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer's words on Gaza.
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Rouleur @rouler.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Expanding Pharmacy isn't the answer. (Whaterver that means🙄) Funding more youngsters into Medicine and Nursing is. A fully funded NHS is. Kicking out private equity companies is. Making Medicine & Nursing (esp) well.paid and rewarding careers. It really isn't difficult.
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Warren Oates @warrenoates1.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So, despite the media and high profile so called 'farmer' hoo-ha, it looks like Rachel Reeves was right about inheritance tax on large agricultural estates!
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roch @rlwig.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Thank goodness for us grandparent aged people who protest genocide, who have banged on about climate change, have demonstrated against, poll tax, wars etc. Those older people who support Reform and Tories thankfully do not represent all of us
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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Why hasn’t the government condemned this in the strongest terms? Why no reassurance to the public that this is being taken seriously, that they have no intention of letting organised fascist thugs shut down key infrastructure, and that we should expect arrests and charges to follow?
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Bernoid @bernoid.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Friday sketch - River Bovey.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
It really is and though it's amusing to see Farage in trouble, I'm furious at what happened to Starmer because the PLP were spooked by Farage. How many times have we said the next GE is 3 years away, a lot can and will happen but were told no Starmer has to go now.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026
Let's remember today the next time a bloody opinion poll is posted, my response to them is always they're irrelevant 3 years away from the next GE but the PLP allowed itself to be spooked by them. Shame on them. And yes, I am going to take moment to feel smugly vindicated.
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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
So much of the stuff we see in education today has its roots in Buzan and de Bono even though some people in education slag their ideas off.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Amidst all the terrible tragedy one story of everyday heroism which saved 900 children www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Headteacher saves 900 children from deadly flash flood in Nepal
Rajendra Dawadi ordered students to higher ground with moments to spare after receiving warnings from upstream
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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#headteacher Hats off to that brave headteacher, Rajendra Dawadi who saved 900 pupils in his school by being decisive and acting quickly.
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La Reine des Metaphores @metaphorqu.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
He always was going to be disappointing. Should have stuck with Keir - a different leadership style but more likely to be successful longer term.
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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
#BurnhamSummerTour much has been said about Burnham’s tour of the country during the summer but there seems very little info on where he went. Does anybody have a list?
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
FoM was such a gift, we could travel and work in EU countries hassle free. We didn't have to commit to moving permanently or jumping through hoops to stay for more than a few months. I'll never forgive Brexiters for the damage they've done.
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 28/08/2026
I was a Labour party member until Burnham became PM, you don't speak for anyone but yourself. The PLP allowed itself to be spooked by Farage barely 2 years after the GE, it was completely unnecessary.
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Ann Memmott @annmemmott.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
www.linkedin.com/pulse/narrow... What a write up! Goodness me, this is good. About e.g. the 'rise' of autism and ADHD. And why the world simply made us visible, then blamed us for it.
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The Narrowing Door:- Neurodiversity, Capitalism, and the Invention of the Abnormal Mind
An essay on autism, ADHD and the political economy of diagnosis by a Mum who is just trying to figure out what is happening. I.
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Flaming June @juneussell.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This is incorrect The shingles vaccination is not offered to everyone over 65. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
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Shingles vaccine linked to lower risk of heart attack and stroke, study finds
Researchers say benefits of two-dose Shingrix vaccine could be comparable to taking daily blood pressure medication
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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
#SchoolUniform Take a bunch of colourful, comfy 5 year olds and force them into boring white and grey and a dull coloured jumper with scratchy labels Why do we do this? Just kitting out 6th gchild in school, first to have uniform reminds me how awful it is.
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Simon Pease @simonpease.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am sick of right wing politicians (does Goodwin count?) Moaning about the birthrate when a major cause of people's reluctance to have more children is the economic policies they have pushed, for years.
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Jo 🕊️💚 @i-do-despair.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
an argument with you on this. I said what I said. I am not a Labour member and couldn’t vote for them in my constituency but as a voter I am livid with what they have done. We deserve stability and a serious government. None of the others could do that. As far as I can see Labour have blown it.
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Greensleeves @greensleeves.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
The BBC is promoting RefUK as a govt in waiting, when RefUK have 8 MPs, only 3 elected, the other 5 defected from the Tories. Lib Dems have 71 MPs but are ignored. Ofcom is supposed to ensure impartiality of the BBC - the national broadcaster - so clearly Ofcom is complicit in this political bias.
Text 'Reform says it will prioritise British-born young workers for social housing'.
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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Another Starmer policy 🤦‍♂️ Ffs is this clown gonna give us anything new??
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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@whimsicalmuse.bsky.social do you know this bookshop with the rolling ladders?
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TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
You want to ask the public, currently ill-informed, fearful of the future, social media-addicted & -influenced, to draft a new version of the society they want to live in? A constitution is a complex design. We saw how the public struggles with complex issues (Brexit), & how easily led they are.
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Stewart Macdonald @mrred8691.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is the problem Britain has and it’s insane. Reform aren’t a threat. They are loud fascist bully boys. They are collapsing from within. So predictable. We need to be stronger minded and not show any fear towards reform. It isn’t difficult.
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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
There are 71 Lib Dem MPs in Westminster. There are 8 Reform MPs. When was the last time a Lib Dem press release led the BBC News headlines or was the main story on the BBC News website? (Rhetorical question)
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
A brief note for Nadhim Zahawi.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
As Britain swelters through another heatwave, few people will have heard that ministers have quietly dropped plans for solar carports. Cars cooler in summer. Shelter from the rain in winter. Clean electricity all year round. A missed opportunity?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
As Britain bakes, ministers quietly park plans for solar carports
Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations
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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Not a clickbait headline. Actual important story. www.sciencenorway.no/archaeologis...
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Archaeologists’ most exciting finds: The stone circles were not made for sacrifices to the gods. They were traces of children at play
'Forget the burial cairns and burial mounds. Children’s cultural heritage is just as important,' says archaeologist.
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lazytitan258.bsky.social @lazytitan258.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Any actual policy from Burnham would be a refreshing change! What’s he going to do when he runs out of Starmer’s policies to take credit for?
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh god, give me bloody strength, Starmer was ditched for this???? It this what his bashers wanted when they said Starmer needed to improve his comms.
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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Really? Is that it? If this is all that’s come from COBR, it’s pitifully inadequate. As crisis deepens, it beggars belief that there aren’t eg plans to increase resources for the fire service, support for farmers, max workplace temperature, funded community cool spaces & obvs ban on new fossil fuels
independent.co.uk
Andy Burnham warns of summer ban on disposable barbecues
Andy Burnham said he would consider if a restriction on purchasing the products during the summer months could be justified
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Claire S (UK not USA) @csav55.eurosky.social · 13/08/2026
Well done Rachel Reeves.
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Evanitamushroom @evanitamushroom.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
#eclipse
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Aberdeen City Arts Board @adeencityartsboard.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
COBRA: We'll need to nationalise the water, build reservoirs, curb big oil, end private jet use and stop landowners drying peat out and- Burnham: Shit?! Is that the time, I need to be on GB news to do a racist. Stick some shit out about teenagers and BBQs instead! #LabourStillDead
end climate change or world war 3 button descion
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A.Stringer @annekin1.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I agree. I find it incredibly worrying Burnham hasn't acknowledged the dire situation we're in, what has caused it, & how this reinforces the importance of reaching net zero, alongside greater regulation for companies exacerbating these problems. He needs to reassure the public he cares about this.
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