Chris Chivers

Chris Chivers

@chrischivers.bsky.social

49 year educator career, teacher to headship, ITE & governance. Busy walking daily, volunteering at Butser Ancient Farm museum, petanque. Francophile, bodhran player, novice uke and painter. Eclectic interests. Blog; chrischiversthinks.weebly.com

1,315 Followers 894 Following 685 Posts Joined Sep 2023
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I would like it to be Vance.
On his knees.

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The ‘Jolene doctrine’: retired US army general likens Trump foreign policy to Dolly Parton song Stanley McChrystal said White House has a ‘we should do because we can’ approach to international relations

The Jolene doctrine

"don’t take him just because you can..."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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A grown up...

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"The War in Iran was started by WOKES!"

Colin from Portsmouth says that the war is a ruse by carbon neutral lobbyists to put up the price of oil so we all start investing in green energy.

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MPs 'deeply troubled' by BBC World Service funding uncertainty The current funding agreement between the BBC and the government expires at the end of this month.

#BBCWorldService “prominence is being diminished by poor governance+short-sighted #funding decisions",[Commons Public Accounts Committee chair Geoffrey Clifton Brown] said.The current funding agreement between the #BBC+the government expires at the end of this month+there isn't a new one in place’1/

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Many moons ago, during an Advanced DipEd in reading and language development, I did a study of the use of a ruler guide. It did cause a break in fluency, so I tested a clear piece of perspex, creating a line, but allowing scanning into the next line of text.

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We should be honoured to host, teach and learn from these people not exclude them. I'm ashamed of our government.

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Back to the DFE White Paper. Now on Chapt 7 (p91/120)
This chapter is about enabling innovation and ambition.

Back to the concept of a self-improving system. With collaboration and innovation driven from and by schools. This was the fundamental principle behind the national school...

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Yep! 💯

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And we’re asked to believe that Trump isn’t playing on Team Putin??

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Thousands living in your communities the letter stated

THERE ARE ZERO

Reform again openly lying in their local election literature

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🎨 Bill Bramhall
Editorial Cartoonist, New York Daily News

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More like Dominic Raab not knowing the quantity of goods passing through channel ports. Anyone would think politicians know nothing...

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Thread 👍👍

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Iran has revealed its underground tunnels filled with uncrewed surface vessels, anti-ship missiles, and naval mines.

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Excellent news.

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Reporter: A new report says the military investigation has found it was the United States that struck the school in Iran. Do you take responsibility?

Trump: I don’t know about it.

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1/ Ukrainian drone attacks deep in the Russian rear have prompted alarm among Russian warbloggers. They warn that the 'kill zone' behind the front line has expanded far into the rear of the Russian-occupied Donbas region. ⬇️
bsky.app/profile/mili...

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It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.

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👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

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UKRAINE HAS DRIVEN 12km INTO RUSSIAN LINES AMD REGAINED 400KM IN THE SOUTH EAST

The ISW has finally confirmed its assessment that Ukraine - which has seemingly stopped its advance for now, presumably to consolidate its gains, retook 400kmsq and penetrated 12km
into Russian held territory on the

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A cartoon by Ron Cobb (1975), showing a shadow of US B-52 bomber above cratered landscape. Two people who look like Vietnamese peasants look up; one says “they’re having problems with their economy again.”

This is from 1975.

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Read the whole thread to grasp the scale of the failure of the US-regime.

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This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

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The USA War Crimes are global.

Don't be silent for Cuba.

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