Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialBremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 08/02/2026Would agree with this. Look around to what’s happening in this world. 163
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 08/02/2026This is the man whose company Peter Mandelson's lobbying firm represents. Keir Starmer visited its HQ last year, at the request of Mandelson, shortly before it was handed a £240m Government contract 48732383
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/02/2026A 5-yrr-old boy and his father who were detained by ICE and taken to a concentration camp in Texas have returned to Minneapolis after a federal judge ordered their release. Rep Joaquín Castro (D-TX) shared images of Liam Conejo Ramos and his father leaving the ICE camp early Sunday morning.independent.co.ukFive-year-old boy and dad who were seized by ICE return homeThe father and son returned to their home in Minnesota after being held at an ICE detention center since January 20 211228
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialThe Tennis Letter @thetennisletter.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Carlos Alcaraz says he’s learned to appreciate every second of the life he’s living, whether he’s lifting trophies or not ❤ 814416
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSimon Knight @simonknight100.bsky.social · 31/01/2026There should be a support group for the parents of goalkeepers!media.tenor.coma man is covering his face with his hands while wearing a watch and a ring .Alt: a man is covering his face with his hands while wearing a watch and a ring . 171
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialNOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 30/01/2026The incoming Dutch government plans to continue Ukraine support at current levels of at least 3 billion euros per year. However, it will be a minority cabinet and will need to find a majority in the House of Representatives to approve its plans. #Ukraine 832856
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSchools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 30/01/2026❗️Exclusive: More than a thousand schools with poor outcomes slipped through the net of the government’s RISE low-attainment crackdown, exposing a 'significant gap' in its latest bid to boost resultsschoolsweek.co.uk‘Schoolboy error’ as smaller schools escape RISE crackdownThe DfE has not contacted some primaries potentially needing support because data goes unpublished 011
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialBremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 30/01/2026Farage’s Reform UK likes to pitch itself as the party of “freedom” – free speech, free thinking, free markets. But a very different picture emerges when you follow the growing constellation of Reform politicians & advisors who are orbiting the authoritarian regime of Hungarian PM Viktor Orbánwritesbright.substack.comThe Farage-Orbán networkInside Reform’s deepening ties to Hungary’s autocratic regime... 75118
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialStephen Lockyer @mrlockyer.bsky.social · 02/01/2026See also: ‘but if we tax billionaires, they’ll all leave!’ 051
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSophie Mac @sophiemac.bsky.social · 14/01/2026I don't know how anyone in the UK can see what's happening in the US and then still want to vote for Farage 80719179
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialDamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 16/01/2026RANT ALERT! OK. Fine. But who is going to write this and how it is going to be delivered? We just cannot have more of the rubbish that has been churned out in the last few years and is now being rewritten and redesigned. 1/4 www.tes.com/magazine/new...tes.comDfE: All teachers will get SEND and inclusion trainingDfE announces a new expectation on training teachers to support pupils with SEND, with £200m funding for new courses 211
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialJames Ball @jamesrball.com · 15/01/2026The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”. 421948575
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 16/01/2026This intro to David Frost's Telegraph column sums up so much that is wrong with British politics. 1511405239
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 03/01/2026“This is about plunder and power.” 1112667950
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialDamsonEd @damsoned.bsky.social · 03/01/2026I am writing. Part 1. The tragedy of hidden schools, in hidden communities meganjanedixon.co.uk/2026/01/03/p...meganjanedixon.co.ukPart 1.My writing, I have decided, will include reflections, thoughts and ideas about education. But, I cannot ignore the situation I am in (see previous writing) and so, I will also be adding bits and pi… 52410
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialBob Cox @openingdoors.bsky.social · 03/01/2026This is absolutely brilliant from Leah! Listen in for a gem of wisdom every few minutes and examples of classroom application from ‘Opening Doors’ @juliesargent.bsky.social @lauraspargo.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @joshuaseigal.bsky.social @teresacremin.bsky.social 165
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialJill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social · 30/11/2025"Too often, KS3 is treated as a rehearsal for GCSEs rather than a stage with its own intellectual purpose." @marymyatt.bsky.social asks: Can we turn Key Stage 3 into the ambitious years? marymyatt.substack.com/p/can-we-tur...marymyatt.substack.comCan we turn KS3 into the ambitious years?Well hello there, and welcome to update #166! 055
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialDr James Mannion @rethinkingjames.bsky.social · 04/09/2025I'm starting to get some *wonderful* messages about Making Change Stick now that school leaders have had the chance to read it 😍 Check out my pod chat with Ollie Lovell here: open.spotify.com/episode/1gxX... And check out the free taster course here: makingchangestick.co 031
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 29/11/2025just in case someone can let me have the link to importance of music notation - explicit teaching required (+ practice) implicit teaching then explicit + practice. 010
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 22/11/2025Oracy - tremendously important, particularly so since Covid. But puzzled that extent of v.poor reading, particularly in ie Islington didn't lead to more evidence-informed, inexpensive, targetted solutions. 000
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 22/11/2025@alexjquigley.bsky.social Great admirer of the clarity and detail of your writing but believe v. strongly in simplicity + economy. I don't like to use bluesky to promote personal decisions but I am campaigning to replace EEF mix of trad and progressive. 110
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialBob White @rwdwhite.bsky.social · 09/10/2025Wes Streeting with the help of Alan ‘got rich in private healthcare’ Milburn, his adviser, are proposing throwing far more public money to the private sector. We can all celebrate making Private Equity bosses much much richer whilst we suffer. This isn’t change, this is the Tories on steroids. 151
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 10/11/2025In July 2025, Gibb's impartiality was again questioned in an open letter from over 400 media figures to the BBC "we are concerned that individual w. close ties to Jewish Chronicle … has a say in the BBC's editorial decisions in any capacity, incl. decision not to broadcast Gaza. Implications huge. 000
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialUrris @urris.bsky.social · 10/11/2025The legislation is so ludicrous, even the police look embarrassed when called upon to enforce it. Hundreds of elderly people charged under anti-terrorism laws because of a cardboard sign. 033
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialJames Rebanks @herdyshepherd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025So, this happened… thanks to @waterstones.bsky.social 41067
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSimon Smith @smithsmm.bsky.social · 02/11/2025No. 39 in my #FavePicturebooks25 is “Good Golden Sun” by @brendanwenzel.bsky.social A simple idea, tracing the sun’s journey becomes something brilliant. It shows how energy moves through the world and give everything life, and visually it zings. Great science. Fab stuff. #PicturebookPage 092
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialOxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Once more for the weekend long read crowd 👇 087
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Wonderful article from @alexjquigley.bsky.social (although #EEF has done brilliant work it has also included work of dubious/harmful worth and is massively expensive) 100
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 25/10/2025“We’re doing things that kind of go against what we [Holder/Obama] talked about...“we have to preserve our democracy if ultimately we’re going to heal it.” via Washington Post 22/10/2-25. 000
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Sometimes Old Andrew' Education Battleground can feel out of kilter with the zeitgist but he can be one of the few voices analysing the situation- as here: The problem with interventions for mental health. 'Debates about what we should do can distract from debates about what we can do' 000
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSchools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · 22/10/2025'For the entire time I’ve lived here, I believed that the strength of British identity and pride would withstand anything, that no gale could deter the journey forward. How naive I had been' schoolsweek.co.uk/ive-given-my-all-… 172
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 11/10/2025Tech-investor Peter Thiel, best known for sponsoring J.D. Vance and co-founding Palantir, goes theology: “Over the past month, Thiel has hosted a series of 4 lectures on the downtown waterfront of San Francisco philosophizing about who the antichrist could be and warning that Armageddon is coming.“theguardian.comInside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichristThe political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’ 4013679
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialTes magazine @tesmagazine.bsky.social · 05/10/2025Reported plans to introduce mandatory Year 8 reading tests are more popular with classroom teachers than heads, according to a new @teachertapp.bsky.social poll. 🔗 Read the full analysis: www.tes.com/magazine/new... 013
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialAtul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 19/09/2025I watched the 1st meeting day of RFK Jr’s handpicked committee of vaccine advisors. It was utterly depressing. 1/ 12371110
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialPaul Kirschner @paulkirschner.bsky.social · 20/09/2025What is a knowledge-rich curriculum? In any event not just facts, not just math and reading, and not elitist. It is the strongest lever for equity. And thus ultimately a matter of social justice. #EduSky @timsurma.bsky.social, @danielmuijs.bsky.social 0153
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 31/08/2025NEW: Man who wants Nobel Peace Prize creates Department of War. 1782919896
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialCass & Anna - The Educakers @theeducakers.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Some more beautiful books here that arrived on my doorstep yesterday. @marymyatt.bsky.social . Perfect for animal classification and packed full of facts that could be used across school . My five year old loves them. #edutwitter #primaryreading #lovebooks 182
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialJohn Dalton - brain marinated in woke sauce. They/them @johndaledalton.bsky.social · 13/08/2025A former cabinet minister has said the UK government is “digging itself into a hole” over Palestine Action and fellow Labour peers and MPs were regretting voting to ban the group. www.theguardian.com/politics/202... #watotheguardian.comPeter Hain says UK government ‘digging itself into hole’ over Palestine ActionPeer opposed banning group and says fellow Labour peers and MPs are regretting proscription 296
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 30/07/2025DDoLL (Development Disorders of Language and Literature) has been forced to close (technical reasons that are too costly to put right, I understand). Greg Ashman 'Filling the Pail' etc + Substack contributor is setting up a network to continue invaluable support - join via Google. 000
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 17/07/2025And, Rachel, I'm still looking for the book that contained your brilliant short Stig of the Dump passage/analysis for SEN. Can you help? Looking forward to your next moves and whip-sharp humour if/when you're writing/posting again 120
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialPeter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 17/07/20252024 was - by some distance - the most expensive election in British history Labour really needs to act to take money out of politics, before it’s too late 77132
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialRima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Catholic Church said a parish priest and several others were injured after an Israeli strike hit a Gaza church. The priest, Fr. Gabriel Romanelli, was very close with the late Pope Francis and the two spoke often during the war in Gaza. apnews.com/article/gaza...apnews.comA parish priest and several injured as strikes hit Gaza's only Catholic churchCatholic Church officials say strikes hit the Holy Family Church in northern Gaza on Thursday morning, injuring several people including the parish priest. 02613
ged10.bsky.social @ged10.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Advice from Washington Post today. 'When the price isn’t listed, I ask. So should you.' 000
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialChristine Counsell @counsellc.bsky.social · 17/05/2025Reading should be a pleasure in each subject. So build it in, don't bolt it on. Let the scholarship used to design the lessons ooze through, in its cadences, rhythms & latent questions. And climb in thro well-crafted text: don't introduce knowledge as tidy, generalised facts. Publication in June... 0157
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialThe Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 01/07/2025Trump's hand-picked Supreme Court is allowing him to eviscerate the Constitution as we know it. We cannot stay silent. #ResistTrump 22485184
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialAaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/07/2025New in PN: A corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lows "When future historians grapple with how Trump managed to so quickly and so thoroughly dismantle American democracy, the role of the Roberts Court cannot be overstated."publicnotice.coA corrupted Supreme Court sinks to new lowsThe Trumpist majority closed the term with a ruling that could rip the nation apart. 22454901743
Reposted by @ged10.bsky.socialSenator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 01/07/20256:05 am. Hour 21 of fighting this awful tax scam. Been up all night, but not going to give up anytime soon. The health care of 17 million Americans is too important not to fight for. 471102841837
