jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Slashing red tape left us with Grenfell! 010
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialLewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The next stage begins - waiting for the train at Brno 🇨🇿 to take me to Vienna 🇦🇹 71102
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But Ofsted judges attainment without adjusting for context or intake. The bias in Ofsted in favour of schools with the most favoured intake is long standing and should be well known. 000
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialRachel Cunliffe @rmcunliffe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Or - radical idea - employers should stop expecting new recruits to come to them fully-formed and trained in exactly what that organisation needs at the particular moment, and should actually train them. And yes I know NLW and employer NIC don't help. But neither will this. 1624963
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 10/09/2026You really shouldn't ignore the fact that school has become a very unhappy place for too many and good test scores should not be the be all and end all of education. 000
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Extraordinary how few Tories have turned up for the Palestine statement. 121
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/08/2026How will they know who is on holiday? Means the end of postal votes on request. 000
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 26/08/2026In a likely hung parliament it would be Lib Dem and green price 000
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialDr Dave Hitchcock @davehitchcock.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I think the idea that the UK's current schooling system is really excellent and that its exams-driven testing model is 'rigorous' is a perfect example of a country eagerly marking its own homework, using criteria it made up for itself. 1630259
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialSeb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 19/08/2026On tackling the NEET crisis. Coherent piece from @aoc-info.bsky.social head David Hughes (@hughesdavid.bsky.social): onemillionfutures.substack.com/p/why-colleg... [Two key paras below.] 121
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 18/08/2026A broadly accurate description of quite a few schools. Silent corridors, solitary confinement for minor breaches of stupid rules, shouting as standard teacher behaviour... 040
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 09/08/2026We may be good at drilling kids through tests but the price is the most miserable and disillusioned with school kids in the western world. And no impact on the gap between disadvantaged and others. 010
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialJames Whiting @jame54.bsky.social · 28/07/2026SEA Response to Burnham Education Reforms open.substack.com/pub/educatio...open.substack.comSEA Response to Burnham Education ReformsJames Whiting on behalf of SEA NEC 012
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Silly me - thinking academic work was about learning to be creative, critical and making an original contribution. 100
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/07/2026You can drill kids through exams - just don't confuse that with education. 000
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Can you just think about governing for a while rather than Westminster games 010
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Have you actually read the research on what kids think about their education. Many hated it. Employers think it doesn't prepare them for work. We have the most unhappy young people in the OECD. Yes a real Tory triumph. 301
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialJane @localnotail.bsky.social · 25/07/2026A complicated journey. Take care not to step outside the boundary walls of Swindon train station lest you be trapped in the Magic Roundabout for all eternity. 1132
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialJames Whiting @jame54.bsky.social · 24/07/2026open.substack.com/pub/educatio...open.substack.comThe Academic and Technical Parity ConundrumBlog 74. Andy Burnham has indicated he wants to radically reform education and bring parity between technical/vocational courses and academic ones. What are the issues? 002
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 18/07/2026The expert interviewed on C4 news was clear that is not what will happen. Totally misleading post. 010
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialSusanita @spanglish51.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Careful study of the Bayeaux Tapestry has revealed this ! 20705241
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The House can vote against the by election writ. Not difficult. 000
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 05/07/2026The rules are not the main issue - it's taking money from such a dodgy source that stinks 000
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Manchester got Leese and Bernstein - Birmingham got....?? 000
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Don't think Gordon thought he was collegiay 020
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Bizarre assumptions about growth in eg France and Germany. 100
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialScribbler Pen @scribblerpen.bsky.social · 14/06/2026Half of UK welfare is pensions, 1 in 3 people on Universal Credit are in work, disabled people are disabled, more of them since Covid hit, but the welfare bill as % of GDP is stable (lower than most developed countries) and is forecast to stay stable and below OECD average for the next 5 years. 12201117
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response. 241851398
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough. 10556051589
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/05/2026So why is I a bigger issue in UK than elsewhere? 110
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/05/2026So the answer is pay them less - yes that will really encourage young people into work. Punishing them is not a "big offer". What are older people willing to give up? 310
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Look at life expectancy changes, at who has huge student debt and who doesn't, at who inherits huge housing wealth and who doesn't.. and still pretend inequality isn't an issue. 010
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026One of the reasons Rayner has been so damaged by the tax cut is both the scandal itself but also as people tell us in groups “we thought she was different”, Polanski also risks being the same with further to fall given he is seen as different. 4154
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialLuke Tryl @luketryl.bsky.social · 12/05/2026May well not cut through in govt chaos. But if it does has potential to hurt Polanski perhaps more than other things in public opinion. Central to Green leader’s appeal is message people are struggling while others dont pay their fair share. But this cld look like that www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukGreen Party admits Zack Polanski may have failed to pay council taxThe Green Party admits that its leader has, until recently, been living on a houseboat in London and may have failed to pay council tax. 6259
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 12/05/2026If Angela Rayner had to resign for not paying the right tax......? 100
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialSpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Miliband. When you've ruled out all the impossibles, whatever remains, however improbable, is going to be the next PM. 6276
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 09/05/2026Available on the Manchester Evening News site! 020
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialFrancis Sedgemore @hesgen.com · 29/04/2026Newcastle Green Party candidate Tina Ion says "Israel must be eradicated. Even if it means killing every single Zionist.". Is Ion one of the "99%" of candidates whom party leader Zack Polanski stands behind?jewishnews.co.ukGreen Party candidate: ‘Jewish Nazis’ are ‘money grubbing thieves’Tina Ion is standing as a Green Party candidate in Newcastle 424388
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 29/04/2026It would be more useful to look at pensioners total incomes putting together state and private pensions. 000
Reposted by @jebolt160.bsky.socialAntonia Bance MP @antoniabance.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Proper trade unionist, Mick. 6416
jebolt160.bsky.social @jebolt160.bsky.social · 24/04/2026Blair was a lame duck if you want to call it that for 9 months. 000
