YouTube video by welshgit Eddie Mair tells Boris Johnson: "You're a Nasty Piece of Work" - The Andrew Marr Show, BBC 1

Everything the British people needed to know about Boris Johnson, prior to voting for him. Great interview by Eddie Mair.

IMO he had always come across as a lout. I assume he used contacts to get jobs 🤷‍♀️ I find his writings poor tbh ..As for letting him be PM unbelievable!

Boris Johnson took four days off as NHS warned Covid could ‘overwhelm’ system Files show then PM was walking dog, riding motorbike and hosting guests as pandemic planning stalled in ‘lost month’

This man is basically just a posh lout. His school reports indicated this; his membership of the Bullingdon Club indicated this; his previous political record indicated this; his mass media appearances indicated this. How on earth did he ever get to be PM?

Dinner with Mr Brexit: Bannon’s European Revolution – Planned with Farage, Backed by Epstein Nigel Farage was the figurehead and his partner Laure Ferrari started it. Steve Bannon and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein were providing almost daily support

This is clearly an intricate international conspiracy. The big question now is whether the democratic free west has sufficient cohesion left to deal with it. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

How they staff the breakfast club The free breakfast club is delivered by: *an administrator taking registers *support staff doing the food preparation *teaching assistants who offer supervision, support and activity support *a designated safeguarding lead and special educational needs coordinator (SENCo) being on site and contactable if required *a learning mentor who is available in the hall from 8:45 am (when the soft start begins) to provide additional safeguarding and also act as a meet and greet for families at the hall door

Oh yes... of course, another group of people who are just yearning for extra responsibilities on their plate.
No indication here of when those key staff get that time back. Or maybe they're being paid a massive rate, from the £1 per pupil?
Just another job on the to-do list of overworked staff.

Don’t forget the times when there would also be a governors meeting after that?!

For HTs of smaller schools, it is impossible.

These are all very legitimate concerns. SLT running breakfast clubs, SEN staff from every class… these things are not achievable and certainly not sustainable. As I HT I would often have to cover and could be with chn from 7:15 to 6pm. This could be the straw that breaks the camel.

The Show Must Not Go On: Downing Street Parties and a Tragic Anniversary By sharing the story of her brother on social media, Dr Pam Jarvis discovered how many others were suffering while Number 10 partied on #18thDecember last year. She has a plan to make sure that this i...

A whole nation betrayed for a second time by its feckless ‘oven ready Brexit’ government. And still, no individuals have ever taken sufficient responsibility for any of this. #CovidInquiry #FBPE @bylinetimes.bsky.social @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

I can send you some pictures of Brighton. It’s been a bit chilly today.

A post by Zarah Sultana of 'Your Party', that uses a generated image with the words 'Your Party, County Durham Launch', surrounded by nine simple, flat images of images in silhouette with single colour backgrounds, presumably intended to represent Durham, four of which are a man with a weirdly long pick-axe, one is a building, two are gantries of some kind – for a coal mine? – and one is some kind of floating lamp. I will expand on this in the thread.

Okay, I can't let this one go. I live in Ireland, not the UK, but the use of this image by a supposedly socialist party is so stupid and offensive, I'm going to get stuck in.

Let me explain to you why any experienced illustrator/designer could have stopped you making so many miserable mistakes. 1/

Listening to posh public school boys droning on about BBC left wing institutional bias just reminds me how captured the media is generally by white, male, upper class Tories. They're ubiquitous.

Our thoughts exactly 🤷‍♀️

Kidlington fly-tipping: Criminals dump mountain of waste in field The enormous pile of rubbish is called an

We saw this on the news last night and were baffled. I thought it was a wind up at first. How on earth did they tip this much waste without anyone noticing??
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Fingers crossed Mary it has been sorted 🙏🏻 district nurses are vital ime. So sad their numbers have been cut back.

Slow-Cooker Moroccan Chicken Stew This is a lightly fragranced golden stew that gains more succulence from having the bones of the chicken thighs in as well. The skin gives flavour, too, and both skin and bones are removed on serving ...

All the flavour, none of the fuss: Slow-Cooker (Crockpot) Moroccan Chicken Stew is #RecipeOfTheDay. (And there are instructions for making it in a regular oven in the Additional Notes section below the recipe.) www.nigella.com/recipes/slow...

Without asylum:

Marks and Spencer wouldn't exist

Queen would have been without a front man

The other queen wouldn't have had a husband

Judith Kerr would never have written The Tiger Who Came to Tea

And thousands of less famous people wouldn't have been teachers, politicians, neighbours, etc

@theguardian.com - Interesting article in your paper today. Should you always be grateful? Raises some really interesting points /thoughts regarding control & power. Do you have a link to it ?

Me too Mary - it was right to be equalised. A key issue as was highlighted was the poor comms. People also forget that access to pension schemes was denied to many women. Not to forget years lost to caring responsibilities.

Dancing to the Algorithm, by Dr Pam Jarvis - Progressive Education On the day that an exams algorithm robbed a significant number of working class children of the results they needed to access their university places, I watched Jon Snow’s interview with Nick Gibb on ...

www.progressiveeducation.org/dancing-to-t... An important read

BBC Four - Remembers..., Matthew Bourne Remembers... Swan Lake Sir Matthew Bourne discusses his bold reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet.

Tomorrow 21.00 Acclaimed choreographer and director Sir Matthew Bourne discusses his groundbreaking reinterpretation of Tchaikovsky's classic ballet Swan Lake.

Thanks for reposting this..need to remind people what Mr Gove is like !

We need Mr Gove in a Court of Law facing corruption, gross negligence and conspiracy-to-defraud charges, at the least. (I'd add a drugs test too).

May I suggest (yet again) to HM Government that what is wrong with utilities, education, health &care services in England is that they’ve been handed over to private companies who run them on the basis of maximum cash to the directors and the most basic service possible they can offer to the users?

The ECHR is 75 today. Like many elderly people, it is in danger of being taken for granted, and not being listened to anymore. So, happy birthday ECHR, please step forward into the spotlight and explain your history to us younger people here.

It’s outrageous imo

How does he pay for it all? The mystery of Prince Andrew’s money The disgraced royal has lived in luxury for decades despite being an outcast and having no obvious means of financial support

So from this account, it seems once the government stopped paying senior royals a ‘wage’ those not satisfied with what ‘mummy’ allocated to them began using their status to seek cash for the provision of connections. And that some were to dim to spot when they were being compromised. 🫣

Impact of Brexit on UK economy even worse than critics predicted, says chancellor – UK politics live Rachel Reeves also highlights austerity and lack of capital spending as key harms to UK economy

Right, so what are we going to do about this, with respect to the people who lied and lied to accomplish #Brexit, and benefitted financially from it? And didn’t even attempt to backtrack/ tell the nation the truth in the window when that was possible? #FBPE

Chocolate Pistachio Fudge I am willing to believe that a confectioner wouldn't call this proper fudge, but it tastes divine, and you won't need a sugar thermometer or have to test for frightening soft or hard ball stages. I li...

Since it is Diwali, #RecipeOfTheDay is this fabulously easy Chocolate Pistachio Fudge. Wishing everyone sweetness and light! www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...

While it's true that the more people can remember, the more they know and can think about, joy and a diverse set of experiences are also important for children. Not everything that matters can be measured. 😘 #EduSky

Celebrity Traitors: Episode two was as killer as Tom Daley's side eye Alan Carr continues to worry the nation in the second instalment of this instant-hit celebrity spin-off.

In the BBC headlines today. After the first episode of ‘Traitors’ was apparently important enough to delay the 10pm BBC 1 news for 15 minutes to accommodate it. To watch showbiz lovvies on a murder mystery weekend. I can show them real traitors still walking amongst us, if they pay attention.