Daniel Bundred 🦡

The LSE is the wokest Higher Educational institution in England?

Well I guess it must be true...

I've tried to get in touch with one of the guys who founded it.

It was such a great resource. If anyone knows Dom, I'd be happy to revive the site and host, share and manage it for free.

Most of Great Britain’s major rail operators are back in public hands – is it working? Explore the Guardian’s tracker to see which operators are nationalised and if services are improving under public ownership

Delivery on that pledge is pretty good. As private rail operator contracts expire they are not being rebrokered but instead brought back into public ownership. Most rail operators are now in public ownership and the goal of having all back is on track for 2027

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Exacerbating the racism and classism, while being totally unaccountable and opaque in its decision making.

'So we accidently reproduced the racist and sexist Amazon hiring algorithm in our desire to empower students' wasn't a reflective piece I fancied writing three years from now.

I did have a half baked idea that feeding in pupil recordings and using AI or some element of machine judgement might make it more objective and less prone to teacher bias.

It was not a good idea.

The naturally resulting Pygmalion lessons didn't seem likely to advance any agenda of equity.

We started off by trying to adapt the Voice 21 toolkit into level descriptors. About three months in I realised we were just creating a way of evaluating how close a child's dialect and accent was to that of the middle class of London and the South East.

Without such a framework we run into the obvious problem that we can't know whether any oracy strategy is improving oracy. With the limitation we end up with something so fuzzy that the conclusion is that, despite the dozens of criteria we had, we ended up unsure of what oracy really is.

It constantly ran into problems like the unavoidable fact that intonation is often accent specific.

I spent some time last year working with a few others in trying to design a reliable oracy assessment framework; it was basically impossible to create one which didn't have some element of racism or classism baked in.

The question about whether Clinton or Trump were rapists was always considered party political in the US, it was never considered as a question of fact with the victims being prioritised.

America is entirely lawless. Beyond that, it is unprincipled. They are still engaged in a discourse about whether Gates or Musk was more likely to be involved in the sexual abuse of children. Neither will ever be held to account; nor will the elected officials in that email chain.

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All good; our serious discussions are mostly on sinking the fleet and sending Americans back in body bags if they cross the Atlantic. Domestic policy is entirely on you guys, and I really wish you success.

Fair enough. Keep fighting in your lane, we'll keep on our thing.

I may be overly pessimistic; but from the UK I see a pattern of Americans thinking that they can sue Trump into compliance, despite this being a man who loses every lawsuit against him and suffers no consequence.

Assuming that Trump obeys the relevant laws and honours the contractual break clauses, which isn't a given, you're describing having a few tens of millions of dollars being passed on to the US Treasury. Trump has shown no reluctance in having taxpayers fund his vanity.

Wouldn't the people capable of deciding the direction be the trustees?

Looks like that's not going to be a problem for Trump.

It's worth remembering (because it's funny) that the largest population on the Chagos are American servicemen in Diego Garcia. Trump still tariffed them.

As far as I can see the only repercussions have been in the UK. They are utterly correct, and have been minor compared to the criminal prosecutions under UK law which the perpetrators deserve; but the total lack of any sense of decency in the US is being noticed.

The correct time to make this 'special relationship' paean about the Chagos deal was probably some months before the UK started wargaming a US invasion of Greenland. It was not this weekend.

Senator John Kennedy in The Telegraph demonstrating that Trump isn't the only American suffering from dementia.

UK should consider resuming talks on EU defence pact, Starmer says PM says Europe must ‘step up’ and signals he wants to work more closely with other states to build military capability

All European countries joining forces on defence is the only way forward in a dangerous world.

Not good enough for the police or the military... And we've seen the standards for both of those...

'Intelligence' itself is a pretty nebulous concept, we sort of know it when we see it but we can't quantify it. IQ tests ascertain whether people are reasonably good at a random assortment of things that might be correlated to a social construct.

The plan was to erase the blouses, in school colours with the top button undone. Over 90% of parents wanted the uniform to be distinctly separate and exactly as they thought it was. Nobody noticed that gender separation hadn't been written into our policy for years.

In a school we had a distinctly different boys' and girls' uniform. We had gently been erasing gendered terms from the uniform policy for a few years; boys could technically wear skirts, girls could technically wear a white shirt with a tie. We then put an integrated policy to a parent poll.

The Battle of Basra was just a thing that happened to other people.

Poor behaviour of other children jeopardises their child's success, poor attendance of other children does not. In fact behaviour is the thing that most parents, in my experience, want to discuss above any other thing. For most it's a higher priority than inclusion or PD.

Parents invested enough to read through the new reports with their six to eight gradings, who might appreciate the subtle distinction between the two green grades of 'good' and 'gooder,' will care about behaviour but likely less about attendance. Their child's attendance is their problem.