Reposted by James MurphyIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 13hBREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome 11455021297
Reposted by James MurphyThinking Reading @thinkreadhq.bsky.social · 27/09/2026In our podcast "Inside the Reading Gap" we hear from teachers like @vicgoddard who know reading problems in secondary schools can be solved - rather than accommodated. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. 011
Reposted by James MurphyRedwall Feasts Bot @redwallfeasts.bsky.social · 27/09/2026At the end of the table sat an appetizing loaf of wheat bread stuffed with cheese, mushrooms, carrots, and onions, alongside bowls of bilberries grown at the Abbey. 1112
Reposted by James MurphyHelen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 26/09/2026A clarification: 👬People on Universal Credit 👬Workers 👬Taxpayers Are not distinct groups. c4/10 of those on UC work, many will pay NICs, some also income tax. Everyone pays VAT. Most people pay council tax. Thank you for your attention to this matter. 14817
Reposted by James MurphyLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 26/09/2026Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all 7359701996
Reposted by James MurphyThinking Reading @thinkreadhq.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Teaching struggling adolescent readers requires a complex repertoire of skills - simply doing ‘phonics’ or ‘vocabulary’ won’t cut it. Read more in our blog ‘Can’t Read, Won’t Read: Matthew Effects’ wp.me/p4hKgx-1u (4 min read) 021
Reposted by James MurphySam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Not saying the BBC News has lost focus but they currently have a live stream of the UK's biggest vegtable competition on their front page. 3628126
Reposted by James MurphySam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Has it occured to him that someone saying "school wasn't for me" went to a crap school? Or wasn't taught to read properly at primary? 2534325
Reposted by James MurphyKristian Shanks @historykss.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s just terrible unevidenced uninformed nonsense from Burnham. Wrong on every level. 052
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Exactly this. The idea that working class kids need something ‘different’. The utter snobbery and patrician condescension. I’m mostly centre left but this drivel from Labour is so tired, lazy and inadequate. 1116
Reposted by James MurphyCasket Based @cineblah.bsky.social · 23/09/2026I'm making a documentary about the RLNI situation and I am contacting various organisations. However I thought I'd turn to bluesky as well, I'm looking to interview people either connected to the RNLI, to refugees/those working with refugees and also with counter-protestors. Please share. 598113
Reposted by James MurphyThinking Reading @thinkreadhq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Looking for a new podcast to listen to on your commute tomorrow? Our podcast series "Inside the Reading Gap" is a succinct 4 part series. A key theme is that there is hope and reading problems are solvable. We explain what it takes & we show that teaching can change lives. 011
Reposted by James MurphyOlena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Worth reminding over and over again: if russia stops fighting, there will be no war; if Ukraine stops fighting, there will be no Ukraine. 413449
Reposted by James MurphySean Jones KC @seanjones.org · 21/09/2026Of course reparations for the slave trade is an utterly fanciful idea just so long as you ignore the fact that we paid reparations … to those who *invested* in the trade and not its victims. 411729
Reposted by James MurphyPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either. 381081333
Reposted by James MurphyThinking Reading @thinkreadhq.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Why can't some children read after 11 yrs of education? Some will say deprivation, lack of intelligence, poor motivation, presumed disabilities or parents. We show how those beliefs don’t hold water & that teaching is the solution: @daisychristo shares her expertise on "Inside the Reading Gap" 011
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026If you care about public health, prisons, public spending, mental health services or education, this podcast will be helpful. 001
Reposted by James MurphyAdam Lechmere @adamlechmere.bsky.social · 19/09/2026The toxic potency of Farage, that he can inspire people to attack lifeboat volunteers, the man dragging his slimy belly over England leaving a trail of hate and fear. This is the way evil appears, not with hooves but a blazer 0192
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Sigh. Why is every Reform headline them saying ‘I’ve done nothing wrong’? 000
Reposted by James MurphyOlena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Speak about Sumy. Speak about Kherson. Speak about Zaporizhzhia. Speak about Kharkiv. Speak about Dnipro. Speak about Kyiv. Speak about all towns and villages that russians are terrorizing daily, killing people, destroying businesses, wiping out homes and infrastructure. 210751
Reposted by James MurphySam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Middle-class kids already do genuinely good vocational courses like degree apprenticeships. I just don't know what problem they're trying to solve. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...thetimes.comLucy Powell: Middle-class children should take vocational subjectsThe education secretary says that curriculums tailored to the needs of the local economy should not be rejected because of snobbery 2920225
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2026They didn’t seem to have these hesitations when they were jailing frail elderly women . . . 011
Reposted by James MurphyBill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Oh wait, someone has thought of this before! 922421705
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 06/09/2026First Sunday of September, the Feast of St Ignoranus, which we celebrate by the traditional reposting of researchED slides with no context, by people who weren’t there, and don’t know what was said about the slide. 021
Reposted by James MurphyCaroline Keep @ka83k.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Finding it really telling right now we CAN arrest people holding signs peacefully about their political views. But we CAN'T arrest men beating women with literal sticks at Reform UK for expressing their views. So freedom of speech includes violence now for certain groups? 11503479
Reposted by James MurphyLouie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 06/09/2026My first cartoon for adults for a while, on the Dover business 14962279
Reposted by James MurphyPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It rained all day yesterday so we went to Barnstaple - never again. We also got our T.V. working. Someone has to sit with the aerial on their head. 930836
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026It’s as if he’s trying to put The Onion out of business 000
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026I think we are underestimating the restraint he showed in not calling Lake Trump 010
Reposted by James MurphyThinking Reading @thinkreadhq.bsky.social · 26/08/2026When a child doesn't learn to read we hear things like poverty, lack of intelligence, poor motivation, parenting & presumed disabilities are the reason. We talked to experts & show those beliefs don’t hold water & that teaching is the solution. Thanks to @SWLiteracy for sharing his expertise. . 001
Reposted by James MurphyGillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 25/08/2026This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.” 244360994
Reposted by James MurphyPostcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 25/08/2026My dear Dad Please, please forgive me for not saying good-bye, but Dad I just could not. I know that this was the best way to do it. I love you very much and always will. Jean 2139340
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Peaceful Sunday evening. Might put this on a Christmas card :-) 110
Reposted by James MurphyBen Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Typically excellent, particularly the focus on what's realistic and not nostalgic utopianism. I'd also add that "academic" study is not just utilitarian. It can be a source of immense joy and beauty and children not being able to access their cultural inheritance and entitlement is profoundly sad. 393
Reposted by James MurphyCarole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 23/08/2026This is important too from @thenerve.news. If you read that viral news piece from one anonymous student reproduced in Unherd, Times & Telegraph & pumped out as FB/Insta ads, you need to read this. What Professor Jason Arday's students actually thought: www.thenerve.news/p/jason-arda...thenerve.newsStudents remember Jason Arday: ‘People would say how much they were looking forward to his classes’A viral article by an anonymous student suggested the academic was a “terrible” teacher. Undergraduates at Durham, where he taught between 2019 and 2022, tell fellow alumna Michaela Makusha that their... 4350131
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026To MAGA, Trump is Reacher. The tough guy who dishes out justice by disregarding the rules. 000
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Children catch up remarkably quickly if they are taught with a rigorous programme and tutors having high expectations of themselves. If you think that would work best n your school, you know what to do. 000
Reposted by James MurphyEliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/202613 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime. 121496390
Reposted by James MurphySam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn. 672601570
Reposted by James MurphyDaisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026“Primaries are a rare example of an English public policy success. We risk undermining that success by making them compensate for state failures elsewhere.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comCould you predict which children will be Neets? No – and it’s unfair to ask that of teachers | Daisy ChristodoulouThe idea of government adviser Alan Milburn sounds laudable. But it’s asking too much of a system already struggling to meet society’s demands, says education writer Daisy Christodoulou 0138
Reposted by James Murphysianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Want to know more about Posh George’s Reform connections in his early years? Or why so many Reform types have their businesses registered in a shabby office in Tivat, Montenegro? You read it here first! My July story for @opendemocracy.net www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...opendemocracy.netInside Reform and George Cottrell’s world in MontenegroWhy are some of Britain’s most controversial Reform-linked figures all operating out of a grubby office in a town of 11,000 people in the Balkans? 06725
James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026The alternative is not teaching them all to read. In which case each functionally illiterate school leave will cost the taxpayer an average of £215,000 over their lifetime. 000
Reposted by James MurphyThinking Reading @thinkreadhq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Episode 2 of our podcast considers the links between poor literacy & imprisonment, the challenges of the prison environment for improving literacy skills. Thank you to @charlie_taylor6 HM Chief Inspector of Prisons for sharing his incredibly important insights. Listen to "Inside the Reading Gap". 011
Reposted by James MurphyJohn Cocker @joecocker.bsky.social · 06/08/2026On this day in 1942, a 10 year old Dutch Jewish girl arrived at Auschwitz with her mother and sister (5) where they were murdered in the gas chamber after selection. Her father perished in the camp on the 1 Sep 1942. Her name was Betje Kalkoene Please support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social 711235
Reposted by James MurphyMark Goodrich @markgoodrich.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Have listened to the first 3 episodes of this podcast this evening and would highly recommend to any teacher whether you are a literacy specialist or not. Great work from the @thinkreadhq.bsky.social team in putting this together- punchy, clear and well-structured with great expert voices. 223
Reposted by James MurphyPaul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4 28737102
Reposted by James MurphyDr Zubaida Haque @zubhaque.bsky.social · 02/08/2026We need to separate two distinct failures: 1/Schools stayed closed longer than they needed to bec the govt failed to put in strong mitigation measures to make them safe 2/Johnson failed to invest properly in helping children recover – a failure that led Sir Kevan Collins to resign as “catch‑up tsar” 817327