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Can't do where and were. Sorry!
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This is just the latest example of the right doing incredible mental gymnastics to insist that “the elite” doesn’t include any of the government, any of the main political parties, the ultra wealthy or the media, but does include teachers, students and baristas
We might laugh at this or stare at it in pure disbelief but yes, this is the reactionary mind on display here. The smartypants people calling me a witless ignoranus on social media are in fact a globe-bestriding tyrannical elite that must be destroyed. Like Godzilla, but worse.
Another win www.liberalcurrents.com/the-interrac...
Also ‘Whites are the ones who brought blacks out of Africa and created the conditions where they failed to develop a culture of homework, respect for the law, and strong nuclear families. So we’ll need to take increasingly extreme measures to fix the ‘culture’ that produces bad outcomes"
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Sir David Bell has published this independent review of how schools and colleges handle antisemitism. It makes 27 recommendations, which the government has accepted. A fifth of pupils - and 6/10 Jewish pupils - had experienced or witnessed antisemitism at school www.gov.uk/government/g...
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Why are so many labour politicians going on podcasts, advocating closer ties/rejoining the EU and being unprepared to answer questions like "why has German growth been so bad if the EU is so good?" youtu.be/lNxFMz16bsQ?...
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Astonishing cope here. PISA doesn't measure rote learning, it is not based on the English curriculum. It relies heavily on comprehension and applying knowledge to a new context.
"GILRUTH: ENGLISH ROTE LEARNING A FACTOR IN LOWER SCOTS PISA SCORES" @AlistairKGrant.bsky.social for @Scotsman.com Jenny Gilruth suggested Scottish pupils trailed England in PISA scores due to Michael Gove's focus on rote learning in English schools. #TheScotsman #TomorrowsPapersToday
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aaaahhhhhhhh policyexchange.org.uk/publication/... h/t @igmansfield.bsky.social
It is *wild* to me that in the humanities there are top universities are still doing take-home exams. Apparently it's a cost-saving thing. I wonder if employers know, or whether they could start requiring disclosure, or whether grads might start saying on their CVs that they had closed book tests...
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It is *wild* to me that in the humanities there are top universities are still doing take-home exams. Apparently it's a cost-saving thing. I wonder if employers know, or whether they could start requiring disclosure, or whether grads might start saying on their CVs that they had closed book tests...
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The idea that this would be a "catastophic burden" on the economy is a real zombie fact. Even on the worst case (and wrong) scenarios dreamt up by anti-migration think-tanks it is not close to "catastrophic".
The Times, once again, calling for mass deportations of care workers and other legal migrant workers.
Yes, and it is great. I love being able to buy 3-4 year old cars at a much lower price than I would otherwise be able to, and in much better nick than they otherwise would be. Motability is an example of the government using its power to drive town costs for basically everyone in society.
The UK's Personal Independence Payment (PIP) program is possibly the closest-ever attempt at socialism for car ownership, now accounting for 1 in 7 new car sales in the country. I look forward to the papers studying the impacts. Gift link to WSJ article: www.wsj.com/world/uk/uni...
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Replying to @sundersays.bsky.social
"“we are all, well many of us, are certainly immigrants to some extent. My name’s an unusual one but I think my ancestors just caught an earlier boat than other people’s. This country’s been built by great immigrants" Robert Jenrick's first national campaign in Newark, 2014 byelection
There's no depth to which this guy won't sink in order to further his pathetic career.
Robert Jenrick, Shadow Chancellor for Reform UK, proposes extrajudicial killing as a solution to the small boats issue. "Deploy the Royal Marines into the Channel. If they need to use lethal force then they'll be able to do so. I think the problem would come to an end within a matter of days."
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I don’t know if anyone remembers former Labour councillor, change UK defector, and regular Twitter main character Frances Weetman, or her creepy reply guy, occasional Twitter main character and arch-transphobe Alex ‘Rubie’ Rubner but they’ve just had a massive falling out over race science. part 1/2
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It is deeply irresponsible for any politician, let alone a senior Conservative, to peddle the same far-right nonsense about Luton that we see from the likes of Yaxley Lennon and Reform.