Ed Dorrell

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It can be downloaded for free from: holocausteducation.org.uk/research/80-years/

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'It is time to rethink how we teach the Holocaust' | School Management Plus As survivors' voices fade, we need to be clear about why and how we teach the Holocaust, writes Dr Andy Pearce

'It is time to rethink how we teach the Holocaust’, op ed piece by Centre's @andypearce.bsky.social, via www.schoolmanagementplus.com/teaching-lea...

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'Ignore stereotypes. Reform-leaning Labour voters dislike the two-child cap' - LabourList Labour voters of all persuasions, from progressives in Brighton to those in Reform’s sights in Teesside, are ready to back an end to the two-child benefit cap. The decision can’t come quickly enough.

“The idea that the child limit has achieved totemic status among potential Lab-Reform switchers in the Red Wall is for the birds”
>> time to end the two child cap. Well said @eddorrell.bsky.social for @labourlist.bsky.social
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By me

'Ignore stereotypes. Reform-leaning Labour voters dislike the two-child cap' - LabourList Labour voters of all persuasions, from progressives in Brighton to those in Reform’s sights in Teesside, are ready to back an end to the two-child benefit cap. The decision can’t come quickly enough.

I've written for @labourlist this week on why Reform-intrigued voters are not in fact the snarling right wingers that the Guardian-readers of London might assume they are.

(Also, on why they'll support reversing the two-child benefit cap.)

labourlist.org/2025/05/two-...

Just explaining #Eurovision to my 6 year old daughter: "... and what's more, lots of the songs are funny..."

"Like 'Beans, Beans Are Good For Your Heart'?"

'Labour is right to revisit winter fuel. But it needs a wider reset of messaging' - LabourList Ed Dorrell argues

Voters know we need sane fiscal policies - but 2025 isn't 2010 and they don't want a repeat of Osborne endlessly banging on about "failing to fix the roof while the sun was shining". They'd like to imagine that ministers do actually want to spend some cash...

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Really not sure how I feel about that Chinese flag #snooker

Shocked by the Farage surge? You haven’t been paying attention Brits voted for Conservatives, they voted for Labour — and the change they wanted didn’t happen.

Brilliant from @racheljanetwolf.bsky.social

www.politico.eu/article/shoc...

Delighted that I've still got three years left to make the final at the Crucible #snooker

So so so... maybe the long shadow of covid is genuinely in retreat.

Could youth mental health be improving?

New polling by Public First suggests so.

'Keir Starmer has finally found the right narrative - security is everything' - LabourList Ed Dorrell argues Labour has now established a frame and a narrative that gives it a fighting chance - security is everything.

"From national security to job security to border security to home security to financial security, voters are deeply concerned about a scary world."

My latest piece for LabourList:

labourlist.org/2025/04/labo...

Comrade Honecker had an exceptional day’s hunting.

Chilled monkey brains

One of my favourite quotes about journalism is, "If a newspaper headline is a question, then the answer is always 'no'. Unless the headline is in the Guardian/Observer, in which case the answer will be 'who cares?'" This is the greatest example I've seen for some time.

Amanda Spielman's peerage is richly deserved Amanda Spielman, former Ofsted chief inspector, is set to become a Conservative peer after being nominated by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch

Shocked, i tell you. Shocked.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/aman...

French parliament adopts bill to bring back village bars French lawmakers Monday adopted a bill making it easier to open a bar in villages without one, with backers saying it would revive rural socialising, but critics warning of health risks.

My kind of planning reform.

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I'm also quite fond of the slightly shabby kings head in borough. Thus sign on a cubicle door last week made me laugh out loud

#notplayingcards

Parents want phone ban in schools to improve classroom behaviour Most teachers face disruption from phones at least five times a week, new research shows

Just published the results of polling we've been doing with teachers and parents on the impact of mobile phones in the classroom.

Many stark stats stand out, but here's one: 66% of teachers deal with phone-related interruptions at least 5 times per week. Shocker.

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‘Love it or loathe it, aid cuts and defence cash play well on the doorstep’ - LabourList Honestly, I wish it weren’t so, but it is. Keir Starmer’s rabbit out of the hat on defence…

"It might leave a bad taste for many supporters, but it was probably the best day of popular politics the Keir Starmer administration has mustered up since July 2024."

My take in @labourlist.bsky.social on the politics of the aid/defence switch.

labourlist.org/2025/02/aid-...

The only thing I'd like to do for a job more than the thing I do now, or the thing I used to do (journalism), is be a historian.

Unfortunately, having the attention span of a pineapple would, I fear, be career-limiting.

I wonder how all those passionate Ukraine-backing Conservative politicians who also signalled their support for Trump are feeling now.

Trump is selling Zalensky down the river - and in its wake is the last tiny reason anyone might have found to defend Boris Johnson.

Oh ffs

Preaching perfect behaviour to your kids, and then behaving like this in a meeting is not exactly modelling what you hope your students to become...

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Public First’s landmark study on conspiracies and disinformation in classrooms and among young people (led by @eddorrell.bsky.social and @sallyburtonshaw.bsky.social) publishes today after a year’s work. Rather timely really.

Binning USAID would be morally bankrupt in itself. Doing it without any tapering seems to me to be a) a huge opportunity for China to fill the void and b) evil

To be fair I might be in a Venn diagram of my own

Not everyone will agree.

There were always going to be critics when the report card was published.

FWIW, I think today's proposals will give parents a much more nuanced picture of schools.

And insodoing reduce pressure on school staff - if only as a second-order consequence.

- Elon Musk has $420 billion

- over a billion people live on less than $1 per day