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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Omg Kate Garraway gagged her with that question

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Máirtín Ó Loċlainn @mr--mo.eurosky.social · 16h

Has anyone told the King he has to go?

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

9 years after Grenfell fire killed 72 people, Police pass files to the Crown Prosecution Service for possible charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies. How many will be prosecuted? Years of litigation will follow. Justice delayed is justice denied.

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Met Police submits Grenfell Tower fire investigation files to CPS

The force is seeking charges against 54 individuals and 20 companies over the 2017 tower block fire.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

UK public sector bodies spent £17bn with offshore-owned private equity firms last year. The same vultures received £31bn public sector contracts. Profiteering, low wages, tax dodging, asset-stripping is their business model. Enriched by public money. How many have politicians on payroll?

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£17 billion taxpayer cash went to offshore private equity last year

We need to buy British, GMB tells Labour conference

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Mr E @theniceman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The story of modern languages in English schools is one of teachers making things work in desperate, desperate circumstances in a system that just keeps getting worse: whoteacheslanguages.blogspot.com/2026/05/coul...

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Could you design a worse system for making sure people don't study languages?

If you wanted to design a system for making sure as few people as possible learn a language, our school system is perfect: "Transition" fro...

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"I should just point out that we don't have any Lib Dems on the panel as they only have 71 MPs, but Suella Braverman is here because Reform have 8 MPs"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Magnificent trolling in Brum

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

One of the best accounts to follow on Bluesky: @premnsikka.bsky.social On point analysis and commentary on British politics 👍

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This chart published by the Economics Laboratory, shows that the UK social spending is 23% of GDP, covers NHS, social security and support services. It is a useful rebutal to neoliberals calling for cuts to the NHS, state pension and other benefits. www.linkedin.com/posts/charto...

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Gavin Esler @gavinesler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Isn’t Sir Jim Ratcliffe an immigrant to Monaco? Happy to be corrected on this of course …. And do British people abroad only consider themselves “expats?” And never “immigrants?”

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......

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Claire Cullingworth @ccullingworth.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

This made me smile, attached to an ordinary cast iron drainpipe on a house in Durham. #TinyJoys

A cast iron drain pipe going down the side of a white-painted house. A crest of red feathers and a bright orange beak made from something solid have been attached around it. It looks remarkably like "Feathers McGraw", the evil criminal penguin from The Wrong Trousers.

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

US Justice Dept and Reform donor Ben Delo. Pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act. Built a company designed to flout US law; willfully failed to implement and maintain even basic anti-money laundering policies. $10 million criminal fine. 30 months of probation, waived by Trump.

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JudithFlanders @judithflanders.co.uk · 12/09/2026

Amazing. The BBC just led with the £36m donation to Farage without mentioning that the donor is a convicted criminal.

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Paula Surridge @psurridge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A very British form of resistance popping up on Facebook today. People buying RNLI Christmas cards to send to a Reform UK free post address.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It's disappointing that the DfE, Ofsted and Lucy Powell don't post on here because it marginalises the educators who don't want to use twitter and keeps others on a toxic app. #EduSky

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"So tell me Mr Farage, what was it about a system favoured by money launderers that allows donations to be totally untraceable that first attracted you to crypto?"

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Everything is about connections not just in our brains but in our bodies and our experiences too. Children learn to write when their bodies build the ability to manipulate a writing tool and they feel inspired to express themselves, not just when they learn the technicalities and remember the words.

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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"We're not broke, we're being robbed" #BlameMillionairesNotMigrants meme via Joshua ABD

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Ilikecaketoo (UK) @ilikecaketoo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Disgraceful that the RNLI have to say this today, but here we are 😞. If you would like to donate👇🏻. rnli.org/support-us/g... #RNLI #RNLISavesLives

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Perhaps, during his private education, fake bloke Daniel Thomas read PG Wodehouse's Code of the Woosters and thought "that Roderick Spode and his Black Shorts sounds like a spiffing fellow, and just the chap I want to be when I grow up." And there they are, black shorts and all. A dream come true.

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Disgusting piece of 'journalism'. Shame on you.

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On reflection I’m considerably angrier about the lack of response from the government to yesterday’s blockade of the port of Dover than the policing, though I am very worried by what looks like a massive intelligence failure. Sometimes “disperse then scoop them up later” is a reasonable choice. BUT

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A Reform government would force schools to sing the National Anthem and if they don't oblige parents will be encouraged to report them to the authorities. Yeah that's not like really scary and authoritarian schoolsweek.co.uk/reform-there...

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Reform: 'There will be consequences for not singing anthem'

Braverman believes parents will tip her off if heads don't follow her anthem and hymns rules

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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

A particularly infuriating aspect of this A.I. bullshit is that nobody seems to remember that we all got along just fine without it for centuries. How are we all suddenly incapable of reading and understanding written words? Of creating art? Of telling stories? It’s madness.

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KT T @thepetitioner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Just deleted #BBCnews from my phone- it’s simply a pro Reform platform at every opportunity

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Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Farage should attend a park run, a game of football, a Primary School in Clacton, a Prom concert before he goes all "Broken Britain" The country is NOT broken. It's millions of people, born without Farage's privilege, trying cheerfully trying their best for their families and communities.

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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

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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is some absolute nonsense impacting one of my favourite sandwich places in Belfast

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Ian Collins @icoll.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s a good idea to be absolutely clear about what will happen if Reform ever get into power. It’s goodbye to Democracy in the UK.

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AR @psalisbury.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

For years I got stressed the night before school that I wouldn't sleep, so I'd be knackered, and the stress would keep me awake and so on. Here's my advice: don't worry about it. If you're tired, you're tired, it's all good. Your mind is buzzing, it's all natural, just go with it. You'll be fine.

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Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

"I want your children's lungs to be smaller and less functional" is a bold electoral strategy.

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

BBC News report Iceland's EU referendum result, presenting it as an in-out like Brexit They neglect to mention that Iceland is already in the EU Single Market and has free movement of people with Schengen

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Parody Nigel Farage @parodypm.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Currently somebody in Thailand can immediately influence British politics by simply paying £5 million...

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

"...in education the 'intervention' generating the 'effect' is not the treatment to which the student is exposed. The intervention—if we wish to use this notion—consists of the treatment plus the student's engagement with what is being offered."

This also means, and this is important for research, that in education the “intervention” generating the “effect” is not the treatment to which the student is exposed. The intervention—if we wish to use this notion—consists of the treatment plus the student's engagement with what is being offered. Only the two elements together will result in something, and it is, therefore, the combination of “treatment” and “student activity” that constitutes the “proper” intervention. The important question this raises for all the research about “what works,” therefore, is whether it has actually been examining this combination of treatment and student activity or has it overlooked the critical difference between the placebo effect in medicine and the placebo effect in education.

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Gert Biesta just published a brief reflection on his important 2007 article, "Why 'What Works' Won't Work" in Education: "...whereas policy argues that practice should take research findings seriously, the same doesn't seem to hold for policy." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... A 🧵:

Has Research on “What Works” in Education Been Looking at the Wrong Interventions? Revisiting “Why ‘What Works’ Won't Work”
Gert Biesta
First published: 02 December 2025 https://doi.org/10.1111/edth.70063 view metrics
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In this invited article, I revisit my 2007 essay “Why ‘What Works’ Won't Work: Evidence-Based Practice and the Democratic Deficit in Educational Research.” I provide a summary of the key arguments in the essay, explain why I used the phrase “democratic deficit,” examine what I have observed regarding the discussion about “evidence” in education since the publication of the essay, and show, through an exploration of the educational placebo effect, why the comparison between education and medicine remains problematic. I suggest that this may have important implications for the design of educational research. It also raises the interesting question to what extent existing evidence about educational effectiveness has been looking at the right interventions. Against this background, I reiterate my call for a broader spectrum of research approaches than only those that focus on the question of “what works.” This is as much a call for researchers as it is a call for policymakers and educational practice.

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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Having worked in both sectors, the truly skilled ones are Early Years Foundation staff. The enthusiasm and love of learning they manage to instil, along with caring for every child, is something every teacher should aspire to. A week’s placement in a Foundation setting should be part of the course

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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.

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KT T @thepetitioner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

great to see early years recognised here as a distinct page of development that requires developmentally appropriate teaching - a move away from the narrow reductive view of learning that has filtered down in the last decade

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Exactly this. Do we imagine that very young children don't think just because they don't have much knowledge yet? (Of course not, I would hope.)

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KT T @thepetitioner.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

With all the war, crime, poverty & injustice in the world why is Prince Harry the lead story of the BBC #News@10 ? It’s NOT NEWS

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Ghislaine Hull @ghizzybear.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“Reform will end ‘something for nothing’ Britain.” - Nigel Farage. He receives £98,599 a year as an MP, yet for more than three months this year he didn't cast a single parliamentary vote or make a single written contribution or speech in Parliament either. But yes, let’s shout at poor people

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Short thread from this morning. 🧵

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A generation of the "soft bigotry of low expectations" has disciplined teachers into thinking standards are the only path to equity, when the reality is that if standards are "high" and curriculum is "evidence-based" then a lack of success can only ever be put on students. bsky.app/profile/covi...

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Gove's attack line was the "soft bigotry of low expectations". He was saying that fluffy progressives let children down by not teaching them in the way he wants. We've effectively had a pedagogy imposed on us via Ofsted and the DfE etc but funnily enough the gaps are still there and even widening. 🤷‍♀️

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