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Professor Helen M Gunter

@helengunter.bsky.social
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Professor Emerita, University of Manchester, UK. Critical education policy researcher and writer. Gardener. Avid re-watcher of The Orville.

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 14/07/2025
If you can't put the pieces together by now, we can't help you.
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Christian Algar @ceebarnacles.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Historical newspapers are still an underutilised resource full of stark testament to the true ‘national story’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... Liverpool black history researchers discover slaver ship advert from 1805 | Slavery | The Guardian
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Liverpool black history researchers discover slaver ship advert from 1805
Ad, which states vessel can hold ‘about 185 slaves’, comes to light as city dock is being turned into ‘contemplation space’
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Said all along next election will be a dangerous moment for UK. Would people really vote for private health insurance, the return of grammar schools, and ?
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Dad’s 100th birthday today. Martin Stanton 1925-2019.
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Agreed, but when education activities were financialised and costed post 1988 ERA the field of education management (now labelled leadership) collaborated, and the key message to the profession was that it was too costly for a person in a senior role to teach! This has to be challenged and changed.
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Eugenics is still alive and well in UK government education policy for England!
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I wonder if the people of Runcorn would trial the abolition of the NHS in the constituency? Then demonstrate to the UK that the Reform company (it is not a party) only works for wealthy elites.
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Thank you Walton Centre @thewaltoncentre.bsky.social Thank you NHS @england.nhs.uk @nhsmillion.bsky.social
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
So the people of Kent want to surrender the NHS rather than fight to rebuild it?
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Why cant British Steel be owned by the UK population? So if the UK government wants to do a deal with a private business/consortium, why cant the UK population construct a business, sell shares, and we the people own shares in it? Why cant the workers own British Steel and we invest in them?
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Alan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
What if tech bros had held their nerve? What if ABC had told Trump they’d see him in court? What if Ivy League Universities had defended Columbia? What if big law firms had sued Trump? Cowardice is contagious. Welcome to the Great Grovel www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/united...
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Since Trump came to power cowardice has become contagious
From the tech bros to the leaders of Ivy League universities, the great grovel to Donald Trump is well underway. What America needs now more than ever...
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@glennkirschner.bsky.social
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Antarctica Tariffs Announced It's about time those deadbeat slackers started pulling their weight... 🐧 💰 🐧 💰 🐧 💰
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.
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Dr Bee Hughes @beehughes8.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Delightful English Lakes restorative, dreamlike, vital!
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Management in Education Journal @managementined.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Welcome to our new @bsky.app account! Have you explored the latest issue of @managementined.bsky.social yet? Read and find out more about our journal here: journals.sagepub.com/home/mie #Leaders #EdLeadership #EducationResearch #EdPublishing #EdWriting
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Management in Education: Sage Journals
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Great series. Thank you. So pleased James won! What a talent.
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Georgina Wright (on leave) @georginaewright.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
🇫🇷 President Macron has just addressed the nation. It was a good, clear-eyed & powerful speech. Quick summary (1/5):
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Good morning all! 🇺🇦 Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Emergency demonstration at US embassy. Wed 5 March - 5:30pm
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
As Arendt said, this is what happens when criminals enter government.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 01/03/2025
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Donald Tusk @donald-tusk.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Decent people thank Ukraine.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Freedom and democracy are always worth fighting for. Slava Ukraini.
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Barry Gunter @barrygunter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Today would have been my Dad’s 100 birthday (John William Gunter) here he is in his Navy uniform before D-Day
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
This is what privatisation is about. Private in privatisation means the relocation of decisions from the public to the private sphere, or to nowhere at all!
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Been thinking about this speech a lot lately. One for all those happy to burn the rule of law because it's their side doing it this time. youtu.be/PDBiLT3LASk?...
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A Man for All Seasons - The Devil Speech
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Keith Brymer Jones @keithbrymerjones.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Blimey......its a roller coaster !! 😊 @potterythrow.bsky.social @channel4tv.bsky.social
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Remember what Arendt said in On Totalitarianism: “Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces first-class talents, regardless if their sympathies, with those crack-pots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty”.
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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 02/02/2025
Incredibly moving Justin Trudeau remarks: "We have fought and died alongside you....During your darkest hours...we were always there. Standing with you, grieving with you, the American people....Canadians are a little perplexed as to why our closest friends and neighbors are choosing to target us."
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Yes, but began within normalised everyday life such as in education reforms from 1980s www.bera.ac.uk/blog/five-wa...
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Five ways in which Edu-exit was the test run for Brexit
Brexit is the current and incredibly dangerous version of the ongoing and deeply rooted restructuring of UK health, welfare, security, and education services. Comparing the UK government reforms...
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Yes thank you. The collapse of part of the Bridgewater canal is awful. Opened in 1761!
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Glad to hear this has stopped. I blogged about my experience www.bera.ac.uk/blog/under-s...
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Under surveillance?
On 30 September 2023 the Observer newspaper reported that the UK government has been keeping files on the social media activity of ‘education critics’ and ‘at least nine experts’ have been...
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Today is my mum’s 100th birthday. Happy Birthday mum! Mary Stanton 20th December 1924-3rd January 1985.
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Yes, said back in July that the 2029 General Election is dangerous. The right are regrouping.
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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
🔴Government By ‘Talking Shop’? Hardly – Here’s Just Some of the Major Reforms Keir Starmer has Introduced So Far Starmer’s Government has been far more active than the Daily Mail is telling you, reports @josiah.writes.news bylinetimes.com/2024/12/03/g...
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Government By ‘Talking Shop’? Hardly – Here’s Just Some of the Major Reforms Keir Starmer has Introduced So Far
You don't have to look very hard to see that Starmer's Government has been far more active than the Daily Mail is telling you
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Please engage with Critical Education Leadership and Policy (CELP) researchers at the University of Manchester www.seed.manchester.ac.uk/education/re....
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Critical Education Leadership and Policy (CELP) - School of Environment, Education and Development - The University of Manchester
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Honoured and delighted to receive the 2024 book award from the Society for Educational Studies. @brisunipress.bsky.social
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
If you are anti-Brexit and pro EU and want to find some extra followers. RT and reply to this post and add each other. No fun speaking to yourself.
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Professor Helen M Gunter @helengunter.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Looking forward to the conversation. If you are interested in education policy then do get in touch!
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