@_paullay @jfwduffield My generation, those now entering their early fifties, are the worst. We grew up with the liberal consensus, a paucity of challenging media and a period of credit-fuelled hedonism that led to serious atrophy.
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Whatfroth
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I'm reading "Dombey & Son", & hate this mentality with a passion.
I have zero in common with Florence Dombey: my ethnicity is different, my experience is different. But Dickens makes me care for her, & feel for her grief & loneliness. That's what literature is about.
Tes magazine@tes
GCSE English is still dominated by white male authors – and simply adding new books to set text lists isn’t enough to bring genuine diversity in the curriculum, writes @NoSchoolSexism’s Rachel Fenn tes.com/magazine/teach…
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@sturgios @skulthorp "Irons" echoing in the sylvan abyss
No Millwall fan to give the fist
Fortunes always hiding
Bubbles always bursting
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Tom Skinner’s men walking for mental health events - they look like West Ham fans in a post apocalyptic world searching for a football match that’s no longer being played
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@tombennett71 In fairness, any teaching strategy that has cartoons in it makes me heave
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The idea that the right answer is always a mix of two opposing answers, is absurd. The right way to treat a gunshot wound is not 'a bit of medical science and a bit of homeopathy'.
Adam Boxer@adamboxer1
Saw this over on LinkedIn and left a polite challenge, but it's a classic symptom of an education system that doesn't understand its foundational philosophies, and in a bid to upset precisely nobody ends up making something completely mad and incoherent
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@tombennett71 "Errors are mined" - who came up with this absurd bilge?
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@EggrollShogun @edwest @waitrose Insurance and harm reduction create a peculiar mindset that abstracts morality. If you get burgled, the insurance pays out but the burglar walks free. Same here- waitrose can cover the cost so no point in imposing morality
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Not content to merely indulge criminals and tolerate evil, bueaucratised and demoralised structures will instead actively punish heroic deeds and decent people. Civilisational suicide.
Genuinely disgusting from @waitrose and I hope they row back and apologise.
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@AaronBastani A pilot is far more valuable than 3 aircraft. You can build a Hercules in a matter of weeks; you can't grow a pilot.
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Incredible that the White House and pro Trump voices trying to spin this as success. Shows you how bad things are. Inconceivable a month ago.
Megatron@Megatron_ron
NEW: 🇺🇸🇮🇷A mass grave of American aircraft that were lost last night while trying to rescue the pilot
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@BDSixsmith Johnson sounds like David Bellamy there, which itself is no bad thing, but not with Shakey
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One of my favourite TV moments is Peter Hitchens solemnly reciting from A Shropshire Lad when prompted, and this showy berk bumbling through Shakespeare in front of a camera is the antithesis of that.
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GB News@GBNEWS
EXCLUSIVE: Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson recites a sonnet in celebration of international Shakespeare week.
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@post_liberal He is a magnificent striker. Just hope this form continues to the World Cup
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This is very Bergkamp-esque. Cant pay him a higher compliment than that.
UEFA Champions League@ChampionsLeague
If football is art, this is a masterpiece 🖼️ #UCL
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@residentadviser I teach in deepest Kent and we have children attending from Barking. If they really want to attend, their parents will make it happen.
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Got mixed views on grammars. But part of the issue with grammar schools is the catchment areas. Kids who pass the test but live further away are less likely to get in. Parents who move to catchment areas near these schools - and drive up house prices - more likely to get in.
James Bloodworth@J_Bloodworth
With Reform UK calling for the return of grammar schools, I’ve shared an excerpt from my first book The Myth of Meritocracy examining the evidence on who actually benefits from selection. Clue: it isn’t working-class pupils: forthedeskdrawer.com/p/the-enduring…
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@residentadviser I work in a Grammar School. The 11+ has been exploited by tutoring. Schools should have their own examination process like the old days - making them resistant to tutoring, but everything is centralised and automated (marking is done by computer)
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@toadmeister @AllisonPearson The fact that it was 227 to 221 shocks me.
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Just won my first victory in the House of Lords. An amendment I tabled to the Crime and Policing Bill that will permanently do away with non-crime hate incidents -- co-sponsored by Lords Hogan-Howe and Strasberger -- won by 227 votes to 221. 👊
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I'd agree with a lot of this, but killing the enemys leader on the first day of the war is pretty much unprecedented, so I'm inclined to think it takes on a different form to others.
Robert A. Pape@ProfessorPape
The Iran war is already following a pattern seen in many modern conflicts. Early military success. Then escalation. Then a widening war no one originally planned. Across history, the same strategic mechanics keep appearing. Here are five concepts that explain how wars like this expand.
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@BDSixsmith @TheCriticMag @jmc_fire They trade on potential glory and are responsible for the majority of modern novels being extremely predictable. I would welcome their trashing.
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A great piece from @jmc_fire, my creative writing tutor, about why courses like creative writing were overrated
thecritic.co.uk/the-great-crea…
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@PaulEmbery There is a consensus anongst Gulf states that Iran is the enemy, consolidated by Iran attacking them as well. Degrading military capacity to bring the regime to the negotiating table I think is the end game. We are one week in and Iran lost its leader.
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What is Netanyahu and Trump's plan now? The price of oil is surging, threatening an economic calamity, so there will be pressure on them (especially Trump) to bring the war to a swift end. But Iran has just appointed Khamenei's son as his successor and said it has no intention of surrendering. Yes, Israel and the US could (and probably will) kill Khamenei Junior, too. But the Iranian mullahs will simply appoint another successor, and will do so again and again if necessary. So, given that regime change is very unlikely to be achieved by bombing alone, what is the endgame? Will an under-pressure Trump suddenly declare victory in the next few days and claim he got everything he wanted - even with the mullahs still in charge? What a humiliation that would be - a bit like when he claimed he got a great deal over Greenland when in reality he got no deal at all. This is what happens when wars are launched without proper exit strategies - the whole thing can quickly become a disaster.
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@OldRoberts953 Oh god they are awful. The musical equivalent of looking at a bin on a wet February morning.
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New at Working Class Zeroes - my guide to the Top 25 (in no particular order) Worst Sell-Outs and Toadies In Britain - it’s number 4, performing punky monkeys for Guardian readers, it’s SLEAFORD MODS
Link below ⤵️
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Adam Curtis watching this knowing he can splice it in with a video of Iran and Israel tearing lumps out of eachother whilst Aphex Twin plays over it
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4
Fuller MP Strictly Come Dancing practice…
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@residentadviser The establishment is left-wing. This has been really the case since the 1990s - i think the last embers of conservative thought, at least on morality, were extinguished by then.
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Agree. Although I do think that kind of politics itself is a product of the complexion of class too. Educated people dominating the left from 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. The growth of ID pol and political correctness in academia in tandem with rise of neoliberalism in 1980s.
Despotic Inroad@DespoticInroad
The tragedy of these charts is that today the descendents of post-war Socialist/Communist workers are voting Le Pen/Meloni/Salvini. There's an economic component to that story – the complexion of the class has changed, with fewer highly unionised mass production lines, and far more (non-unionised) jobs in retail, construction, logistics, hospitality, care, transport, the trades etc. In Britain, this "new working class" of post-industrial, manual "C2DE" workers is oriented heavily towards REFORM (but used to be SOLIDLY Labour). The whole European Left is victim of broad macroeconomic & long-term trends that have affected the whole developed world. BUT they have also doubly fucked themselves by presenting so relentlessly as smug, metropolitan, postgraduate-coded, humourless holier-than-thous, exemplified most especially on the issues of migration, crime & contemporary wokism (on which they've shifted radically towards a hyper-liberal/libertine positioning). No doubt the Third Way social-democratic establishment played a role with their accommodations with globalisation/free movement of goods, capital & people. BUT the radical Left did their bit too, by becoming a haughty, sneering sub-culture for over-educated urban bobos. Now we have this:
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I'm going to my first rock gig next month for about 15 years. How are middle-aged men meant to behave at concerts? What am I supposed to wear?
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