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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The way that the current education system rewards those who are not inclusive is not a small problem. It is the biggest problem children face and the worst dimension of education for the past 20 years. If we embrace the values that sit behind The White Paper then seismic cultural change will happen.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Was not a fan of McSweeney, but he did mastermind a triumphant election campaign. However, gratitude should not have been enough to keep him in the job when he has not been sufficiently values-driven as a Number 10 adviser. Let’s now get bold, inspiring stuff done.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

The first image may not be the best photo, but it was the best experience because we saw that koala in the wild. Being authentic matters far more than striking the right pose.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

None of us really knows what has and has not been said and agreed by Starmer and Burnham and most of what I read is speculation, but I do know that if I was Starmer I would have tried to make a pact and have him as my ‘in the tent’ succession plan. Perhaps Burnham would not wait for that. Who knows.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I never had a Gap Year adventure, going straight from school to Cambridge and then into teaching. So I promised myself we would do it when I stepped away from being a school leader. So here I am in Singapore on a Wednesday in term time. Cheers!

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Whizzing up to the North East to see relatives at this time of year invariably involves a trip to NandonThai in Durham. Almost a tradition.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Today a knock on the door. It was our new neighbours with a gift. We’ve become alarmed at knocks following the abuse we received for taking down flags in our village. Our neighbours are immigrants. Their response is significant and why we took action. Everyone is our neighbour. Merry Christmas!

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

I have just heard Lucy Powell describe Farage as the love child of Enoch Powell and Margaret Thatcher. Spot on.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Chris Mason should be sacked. He epitomises everything that needs sorting out at the BBC. I am So bored of his predictable nonsense.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

The only people I know who live in mansions worth £2 million live in London. None of them made the money to buy these houses through paid employment. There’s an awful lot of rich people moaning at a time when we should be hoping that the poorest in our communities can now live without Food Banks.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Nowadays we play ‘People Watching’ as we travel under the Tyne Tunnel to Cullercoats. Back in the day it was always Dire Straits and ‘Tunnel of Love’. Matching the soundtrack to the journey is one of my eccentric habits. Does anyone else do this?

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The BBC One Show does a great job with the National Teaching Awards. It always brings a tear to my eye to hear people on television presenting a positive image of the profession because we are so used to seeing quite the opposite in TV dramas.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Taxing mansions? Yep I agree Encouraging investment? Yep I agree Raising living and minimum wages? Yep I agree Lifting 2 child benefit? Yep, I agree. Well done on lots of fronts. Now sort out the out-Faraging Farage when discussing immigration.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

If multiple people can remember someone being horribly racist, even by the appalling low bar of the racist 1970s, that is entirely noteworthy. As an adult Farage fanboyed Enoch Powell - the most infamous racist of the 1960s - and long cited him as his political hero. And that's noteworthy too.

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Laura Phillips @lauraphillips.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

‘A Jewish former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being "fundamentally dishonest" by suggesting former pupils who say they witnessed his racism are not telling the truth. Peter Ettedgui said Farage had repeatedly told him "Hitler was right" and "gas them"…’

bbc.co.uk

Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate

Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

There has been so much disinformation about the budget floating about for weeks now from the likes of The Telegraph. What on earth will they fabricate or falsely speculate over once tomorrow has come? Perhaps they might like to do some good old-fashioned news reporting instead.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

So while I was worrying about the sick children who had returned from a ski trip to Italy in February 2020 and wondering whether they had this scary Covid thing and what to do about it, Johnson was living out a Great Escape fantasy on his motorbike toy and having some days off. Never forget!

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Polanski went to private school, Farage went to private school, Badenoch went to private school. You can either conclude that their education gave them special agency and/or you can argue that they should not be trusted with any decisions over our state education system.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Today at The Comprehensive Futures AGM we heard about the devastating impact on self-belief that failing the 11+ has on young children, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds. Why does selection at 11 still happen in English state schools? It makes a mockery of the idea of inclusion.

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Henry Dyer @direthoughts.com · 18/11/2025

Exclusive: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations w/ Dan Boffey and @drblacklock.bsky.social

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‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school

Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

I tend to agree. The Government has my support on many things, but its approach to immigration is not helpful and is disillusioning its voting base amongst those in the public services.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

We took the third set of flags down that had been put up in our village. We went in daylight, openly, chatting as we went to so many supportive people. We were thanked and bought cookies in thanks from the village cafe.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

The Lee Miller exhibition at Tate Britain has the lot: glamour, wit, play, brutal honesty, important exposure of brutality and a celebration of the efforts of women in war. I thoroughly recommend it as an antidote to jingoism and shallow but performative remembrance.

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@bobhudson.bsky.social @bobhudson.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Farage’s claim that flag mania was down to ordinary citizens couldn’t be further from the truth. Brilliant expose via @manchestermill.bsky.social. manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...

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The men who raised the flags

Nigel Farage says this summer’s movement was led by ‘ordinary people’ expressing their patriotism. That’s not what we found

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

So presumably all of the women are going to riot now that it has been confirmed that once more some blokes have committed a horrible violent crime. Wait….

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Matilda Martin @matildamartin.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Reform has lost 1 in 20 (5%) of the 677 councillors it gained in May elections In Kent alone, it has lost 14% of its councillors... -11 have been expelled -6 suspended -9 have left the party -1 has defected to UKIP -9 have resigned from the council altogether www.politicshome.com/news/article...

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Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate

Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

The Rachel Reeves rent thing is just not a story. Yawn.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Thoughts with the lovely Sam West and his family today. To lose both parents in the space of a year had quite an impact of me. Imagine how much more painful when they are Timothy West and Prunella Scales and their faces are everywhere you look.

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headsroundtable.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

HTRT Assemble! Today Roundtable meets to discuss what’s going on in the system, what’s not going on and where our energies are best directed. #education #leadership #HTRT

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Callum Parrish @callumparrish.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

UK will be second-fastest-growing G7 economy this year and next, IMF predicts. Almost as if Rachel Reeves knows what she is doing.

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UK forecast to be second-fastest growing economy in G7 - IMF

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has upgraded the rate at which the UK economy will grow this year.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Big fan of Gordon Brown too! These two have a fair bit in common.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Nigel is still smarting because his teacher called him out for singing Nazi songs in the street. Diddums.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

If you are a member don’t forget to vote for the next Deputy PM. I like both Lucy and Bridget but I have worked with @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and I know how strong and personally fierce her commitment to social justice is, so she got my vote.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

I would have happily seen the demise of The Conservative Party when they were in government, but the way in which a far right party like Reform has crowded into their opposition space is not the outcome I had hoped for. Be careful what you wish for.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

“Yet another colleague (from his school) described how, at a camp organised by the college, Farage and others had marched through a quiet Sussex village very late at night shouting Hitler Youth songs.” Reform can deny it all they like, but the reliable source is the teacher. Don’t back down David.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

When discussions are had about whether it was right to close schools during the pandemic, I hope that it is remembered that school colleagues died of COVID when schools were open and that employees in school were not prioritised for vaccination. I never understood that decision.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Civil War in Sudan resulting in 75 killed in a mosque, more dead following Putin’s attacks on Ukraine, mass killings in Gaza and now murders in Manchester. Sometimes it does not feel that human beings have evolved sufficiently. #HopeNotHate

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I want this to be a succession strategy not a schism. Own the need for a ten year plan and control the narrative. That strategy would, of course, include evolving leadership to meet the needs of each stage.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

I don’t particularly enjoy watching golf on television. But The Ryder Cup victory wasn’t golf. It became politics. And we won the argument.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Whoop! I wonder how many of those obsessed with England flags have been watching! Wait….they haven’t have they.

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Billy Bragg on fire

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Grabbing brekko at Coventry station on my way back from Question Time. Didn’t expect to see this stirring evocation of the defeat of fascism adorning the wall of Coffee #1 #AllYouFascistsBoundToLose

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Well done to Bridget for speaking openly about this. Most women in any powerful role have experienced this. I do wish the media would drop the Burnham vs Starmer factionalism. I bet Bridget gets on well with both of them. The agenda is not driven by the preferences of the males.

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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

So excited! Off to listen to Obama this evening!

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