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Mike Murray

@murraym965.bsky.social
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Author Reframing Education John Catt 2019, teacher, Head, Research lead, historian married to Caroline, daughter Alice, son Tom

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Comprehensive Future @compfuture.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Can England build a comprehensive future—or are we still looking back to a tripartite past? @murraym965.bsky.social considers selection, vocational education and what genuine inclusion demands in our latest Future Thoughts article. comprehensivefuture.org.uk/a-comprehens...
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A Comprehensive Future, Not a Tripartite Past – Comprehensive Future
By Mike Murray The success of Andy Burnham’s education policy, led by Lucy Powell, is going to hinge on whether they can ... Read more
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Channel 4 News @channel4news.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:
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Exclusive: Nigel Farage filmed undercover celebrating secret new foreign donations
Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation.
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
It is striking how little media appetite or interest there has been for the Covid inquiry's conclusions
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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
“Just don’t believe your eyes.” @brucespringsteen.net on Minneapolis & how the Trump administration as responded.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Excellent piece this
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
One for those doing Remembrance assemblies, tutor time or the history folk @morsecat.bsky.social @mrmountstevens.bsky.social @jdurran.bsky.social @bennewmark.bsky.social mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/j...
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Just 3 images: Remembrance don’t let the Far Right hijack the Poppy!
Remembrance Sunday and the Poppy appeal can be easily hijacked by the far right in our current febrile atmosphere for jingoistic, xenophobic and nationalist reasons. It makes it all the more vital …
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
A blog about ensuring the Far Right doesn’t exploit Remembrance mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/j...
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Just 3 images: Remembrance don’t let the Far Right hijack the Poppy!
Remembrance Sunday and the Poppy appeal can be easily hijacked by the far right in our current febrile atmosphere for jingoistic, xenophobic and nationalist reasons. It makes it all the more vital …
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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"
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Ben Newmark @bennewmark.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This was always going to be the direction given how little illegal immigration there is. This is going to do us all damage for years to come.
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I wrote a blog about countering radicalisation. For KS2 to 5, history folk, PSHE and senior leaders. Please use and share widely mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/j...
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Just 3 images: The Battle of Cable Street
Use of the images and text In the current moment, British values of tolerance and inclusion are under severe threat because of the rise of far right ideas seeking to divide and frighten our communi…
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
One for the history community @bennewmark.bsky.social mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/j...
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Just 3 images: The Battle of Cable Street
Use of the images and text In the current moment, British values of tolerance and inclusion are under severe threat because of the rise of far right ideas seeking to divide and frighten our communi…
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
I wrote a blog about countering radicalisation. For KS2 to 5, history folk, PSHE and senior leaders. Please use and share widely mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/10/16/j...
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Just 3 images: The Battle of Cable Street
Use of the images and text In the current moment, British values of tolerance and inclusion are under severe threat because of the rise of far right ideas seeking to divide and frighten our communi…
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Cam @millap.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Farrige gives the impression he doesn’t trust scientists, but was willing to believe a taxi driver in Buckinghamshire, that Sharia Law is coming to Britain. This guy wants to be PM?! You must be joking! Nice one @billybragg.bsky.social 👏 #bbcqt
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Historical Association @histassoc.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
The report featured in the Guardian today on the inclusion of women in hustory lessons is really important - lets make women’s voices heard and their actions remembered. www.history.org.uk/secondary/ca...
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Report on Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Lovely review of Tom’s play northernartsreview.co.uk/north-east/r...
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Review: American Candy at Northern Stage - Northern Arts Review
Our new theatre review website is up! Please show some love and come over to see. Sign up if you're in the north and want to be kept informed what's on near you. And if your favourite theatre or produ...
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Essex school leaders will see their students in every word Vic says here. @vicgoddard.bsky.social
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Mark Ferguson MP @markfergusonmp.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
This is my flag.
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Toms new play dates and link It’s a comedy linktr.ee/mangoensemble
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Jill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"..in which they can be successful & feel fulfilled, is a significant driver for me." My latest blog post, on 'Women in school leadership': jillberry102.blog/2025/08/02/w... 2/2
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Women in school leadership
I’ve recently read three articles in TES about women in educational leadership, which have made me thoughtful. On 20th May 2025, Manos Antoninis wrote a piece entitled ‘Female school leaders benefi…
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James Durran @jdurran.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Honoured to write this.
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
Had a chat with Billy Bragg at Latitude while we were both eating lunch. He told me that teachers and school leaders make more of a difference to the world than musicians ever can and he shook my hand. He made a difference to me today for sure. He is such a nice, humble bloke.
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Toms next play on tour this Autumn www.broadwayworld.com/uk-regional/...
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AMERICAN CANDY to Tour UK This Autumn
The Mango Ensemble, finalists for the 2025 National Diversity Awards, will launch a UK tour of American Candy, a new comedy-crime play by Tom Murray and directed by Francesca Hsieh. The production wil...
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Just a day to go now….
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Jill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
"36 years on, I am so grateful I chose teaching & that this morphed into school leadership & then trust leadership." Huge congratulations, @morsecat.bsky.social, on all you've achieved - & very best wishes for the next stage of the adventure! It can be rich & full! www.tes.com/magazine/lea...
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‘Thanks, teaching’: a love letter after a 36-year relationship
As she prepares to retire after almost four decades, MAT leader and former teacher Caroline Derbyshire pens a thank-you letter to a profession that has given her so much
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Jill Berry @jillberry102.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
"One of the things I am most proud of is the talented women who have been able to follow in my wake as headteachers." @morsecat.bsky.social writes in @tesmagazine.bsky.social: www.tes.com/magazine/lea...
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‘Thanks, teaching’: a love letter after a 36-year relationship
As she prepares to retire after almost four decades, MAT leader and former teacher Caroline Derbyshire pens a thank-you letter to a profession that has given her so much
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James Durran @jdurran.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
My close friend Jim Stewart has died, aged 67, after a rapid progression of Parkinson's. We taught English, organised @NATEfeed conferences & wrote books together. He taught me much about teaching, Shakespeare, music & the hills, and even more about laughter. He's deeply missed.
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Daisy Christodoulou @daisychristo.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
In the latest post on our Substack I try to make sense of the mutual incomprehension between teachers & students about the role of AI. Is it OK for students to use AI to write their assignments if that's the most efficient thing to do? If not, why not? substack.nomoremarking.com/p/what-is-th...
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Nicole Dempsey @ndempseyinco14.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Process, inclusion, and the cost of convenience. inco14.wordpress.com/2025/07/13/j...
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Just Because You Can Doesn’t Mean You Should
On process, inclusion, and the cost of convenience In a world of accelerating automation, we must ask not just what technology can do for us, but what it might take away. Technology and the interne…
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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‘Thanks, teaching’: a love letter after a 36-year relationship
As she prepares to retire after almost four decades, MAT leader and former teacher Caroline Derbyshire pens a thank-you letter to a profession that has given her so much
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Farage is of the far right. He went to an elite school where he admired the Nazis, is a millionaire and laughs about you behind your back because he has persuaded you that he ‘talks sense’ and is ordinary like you. He isn’t. He is very sinister.
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RevdMark @revdmark.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Congratulations Caroline- very well deserved recognition of an outstanding career and contribution to state education! 😊
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Pleased to see @counsellc.bsky.social in the Honours list for her influential work in education and our own Angela Dixon for being a magnificent Chief Exec for the inspiring place that is Saffron Hall. Congratulations! Both brilliant women!
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Dan Morrow @moremorrow.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
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Sure Start centres saved UK government £2 for every £1 spent, study finds
New Labour initiative created ‘remarkably long-lasting’ health and education improvements, says report
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
When I was 22 and trained to be a teacher I never imagined that one day I would be invited to a Royal Garden Party! Thank you @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social for making this happen for 7,000 educators yesterday. Turns out that not all Secretaries of State for Education think of us as ‘the blob’!
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
In my last term of school leadership. I did it my way, I guess!
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Cultivating Excellence and Empowering Teachers with Caroline Derbyshire, Mind the Gap, Ep.63 S3, E19
YouTube video by Mind the Gap with Jon & Emma
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Trump is pushing the world into recession. By learning the lessons of 2008, we can still prevent it Hope Reeves and Starmer are listening to the old wise head
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
School leaders! What are you most worried about? An unfunded pay rise? A new Ofsted framework? Recruiting staff? The first two are the ones keeping the leaders I speak to awake at night. @cmckinnellmp.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social @ascl-uk.bsky.social
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"The American state has been captured by a group of people who do not see the world as we do ... To their credit, they don’t pretend to be anything else. To our discredit, we lie to ourselves that they do." Good piece by @lewisgoodall.com. goodallandgoodluck.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
If it weren’t so serious, it would genuinely be funny. Here was a Vice President whose administration has spent these last weeks lauding or at least cordially embracing a Russian regime where freedom of speech does not exist, whilst chastising and insulting democratic allies where it most certainly does. Here was a Vice President scolding European leaders for allowing the pillars of their democracy to fray, whose boss was the head of an actual insurrection in the American Congress. Here is a Vice President lecturing others about freedom of speech, who says he is concerned by the rise of relativism of truth, who does not even dare to say aloud the unalterable objective fact: that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. In Munich irony died, was exhumed, only for Vance to sever its head again.
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Matt Keer @captaink77.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I’m guessing that it took the DfE around 3 nanoseconds to conduct their public interest test when drafting this FOI response
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
My thoughts on the terrible OFSTED report card proposals mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...
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OFSTED’s new report card proposals: will the opportunity generated by losing single grade judgments be squandered?
Hope Bridget Phillipson began her time as Secretary of State for Education by raising high hopes. There has been much to praise in Labour’s policy so far, including settling the pay dispute and val…
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Wondered if history folk are feeling the same @bennewmark.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social @michaelfordham.bsky.social mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...
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OFSTED’s new report card proposals: will the opportunity generated by losing single grade judgments be squandered?
Hope Bridget Phillipson began her time as Secretary of State for Education by raising high hopes. There has been much to praise in Labour’s policy so far, including settling the pay dispute and val…
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Catherine Davis @catherinedavis.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Brilliant commentary on the failings of the Ofsted proposals with practical solutions on how to make it better.
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Holding the Line @sparkes66.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Very good read. “Schools in deprived and sidelined contexts will, almost certainly, be disproportionately labelled as ‘causing concern’” Also in my view we just need effective, action needed, not effective.
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@morsecat.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social Some thoughts on OFSTED report card proposals mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...
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OFSTED’s new report card proposals: will the opportunity generated by losing single grade judgments be squandered?
Hope Bridget Phillipson began her time as Secretary of State for Education by raising high hopes. There has been much to praise in Labour’s policy so far, including settling the pay dispute and val…
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Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Some thoughts I agree with from the guy I am married to.
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Wondered if history folk are feeling the same @bennewmark.bsky.social @counsellc.bsky.social @michaelfordham.bsky.social mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...
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OFSTED’s new report card proposals: will the opportunity generated by losing single grade judgments be squandered?
Hope Bridget Phillipson began her time as Secretary of State for Education by raising high hopes. There has been much to praise in Labour’s policy so far, including settling the pay dispute and val…
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headsroundtable.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
An interesting first take on Ofsted’s proposed report cards.
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Mike Murray @murraym965.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
@morsecat.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social Some thoughts on OFSTED report card proposals mikemurray965blog.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/o...
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OFSTED’s new report card proposals: will the opportunity generated by losing single grade judgments be squandered?
Hope Bridget Phillipson began her time as Secretary of State for Education by raising high hopes. There has been much to praise in Labour’s policy so far, including settling the pay dispute and val…
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