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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Peaceful Sunday evening. Might put this on a Christmas card :-)

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

This will be a brilliant experiment where we can assess the value of these two approaches

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Fascinating conversation with Vic Goddard, CEO of Passmores Co-Operative Learning Community, about his school's journey to addressing reading problems. A must listen for all school leaders. The first of our extended interviews for 'Inside The Reading Gap' wherever you get your podcasts.

Inside the Reading Gap: In conversation with Vic Goddard. A Podcast by Thinking Reading.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

This is U.K. political reporting in July 2026. Is it the heatwaves or has silly season come early?

Headline: Count Binface rules out pact with Monster Raving Loony Party.
Photo of Count Binface.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Asaagh! This is NOT a difficult decision! Get out of there for your students’ sake!

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

It just gets worse. And even if you argue, as critics in the article do, that it’s difficult to disentangle the effects of global crises, surely the point is we were in a less resilient position to cope with those crises as a result of stepping away from our largest export market?

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Tell me you know nothing about Northern Ireland. Of course that doesn’t stop you writing headlines like this.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

This sums up Meta - and that guy - perfectly. No understanding of what human relationships are or why they matter.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Horrified by this sentence in the Telegraph article: “Staff at Immingham say you can often predict outcomes even before pupils arrive at the school gate.” Might have something to do with the “bullying and boredom” as well as low attainment.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Old journalism trick of putting picture above negative headline about something else. Apple News showing its class.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Of course not, he is a very naughty . . . Ow!

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

This is where Trump was always going. Build Ukrainian systems. Or your own. The IS can no longer be relied on, and in some situations is a malign actor.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Alfie is tired, but he is also worrying about whether the existentialists had a point, but he is also too tired to worry

Golden toy poodle curled up in thoughtful mood

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Well it was a suspicion and then this newsletter dropped into my inbox this afternoon, so now it now appears to be the latter:

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Just another day of Stephen Miller’s goons pushing well past the limits

Tells the experience parents and their six children whose car was filled with tear gas by ICE

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Such a peaceful dusk to close New Year’s Day. Sound on.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

A very peaceful and joyful Christmas Eve to all who celebrate. Tonight’s newish moon in West Cork

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

This is how we need to be thinking about IQ scores - not as a ceiling but a base to build on!

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

At the Fair Education Alliance Summit in London’s Science Museum. Cool venue.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

First, they came for the puppies, but I did not speak up.

Masked, shadowy ICE officer points gun towards camera.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Far from being a ‘miracle’, this private school is funded by local authority EHCPs, has a selective intake, discredited understandings of reading disability, and every student will have special exam access (usually, extra time and/or a reader-writer). But let’s all be breathless at the ‘miracle.’

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

This is the problem. 28% of Americans polled believe it’s fine for Trump to ignore a ruling by the Supreme Court. More than a quarter believe in Trump above the Constitution.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Looooong ago. Like at some point during the fourteen years this guy and his party were supposed to be governing the country. Another example of politicians choosing soundbites on the assumption that no one will remember who could have done something, and didn’t.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

It’s a trend but we started it here in the 51st state!

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Troublemakers in the back row at Research Ed Brum

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

I bet. Much easier for Trump to re-assign US mineral rights to Russia than fight a war he can’t win.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

For that inevitable post where someone claims Einstein didn’t go to school (usually implicitly or explicitly closing that schools are not needed or desirable). Source Wikipedia. So there’s that.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Had to happen, adopted a wolf. Meet Silas.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Yes! From a few Christmas Eves back:

Sun setting over the Atlantic with the rugged Sheep’s Head peninsula in the foreground.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

It’s fabulous, isn’t it! Meanwhile . . .

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Finally finished. Agree with Dan Snow. Masterpiece.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Even in the hard heart of the city, the magpie is alive amongst the bricks, against the blue sky

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

Never thought we’d tick something off the bucket list by driving a few miles out of town, but there you are 😊

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,694,010!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #1,694,010, James Murphy ‪@jamespmurphy.bsky.social‬, joined on Oct 24, 2023"

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Yes we did! Such an otherworldly, lonely place. We explored some of the coast on zodiacs too - delighted every time we saw puffins!

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Slo-mo of superb co-ordination as they enter the water on an angle at 60 mph, snatch fish by compensating for refraction, keep their eyes open via a transparent third eyelid that closes ten milliseconds before they hit the water, with special air-filled cavities in their skulls to absorb the impact.

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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

Seeing as we now have video, a short clip of the summer that has forsaken us so swiftly: gannets off Stac Armin and Stac Lee.

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