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Executive Director, Strategy and Insight at the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Social policy, politics, art, books, pottery, feminism, social justice, a cat or two. Own views.
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02.11.2025 06:38 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Exactly! The lack of science specialists is a critical contextual factor.
01.11.2025 07:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sciences are important in the mix but no strong reason for stuffing the KS4 with them at the expense of other subjects. If kids with 3 scis at GCSE do well that’s as likely to be correlation with other advantages, not necessarily causative.
01.11.2025 07:34 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Justin Webb has a tendency towards the glib. Said on Today that the difference between 3 science GCSE option and the 2 is that three sciences is ‘basically the academic route’. My daughter took two and is thriving in her arts and social sci A levels. She also did a language unlike many peers 1/
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Almost 100% of children in 73 neighbourhoods in England are living in income-deprived families.
Govts push real wage/benefit cuts, two-child benefit cap; oppose universal basic income; don't curb profiteering.
No govt targets to cut poverty.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
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FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.
Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…
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20.10.2025 05:15 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0The Louvre heist is giving adventures of Tintin vibes
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16.10.2025 15:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...
15.10.2025 16:39 — 👍 306 🔁 219 💬 8 📌 8I love that these platforms allow all sorts of sewage but if you repost a work of art with some flesh in it, they come over all prudish!
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British & American attitudes to abortion are strikingly different. It is a settled issue in Britain across most political groups & age demographics. There is a pro-choice majority in America but it polarised by party
The BSA tracked the issue until 2017. Stopped doing so because social consensus
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