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Michael Merrick

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4 months

This really is a genuine scandal

Jonathan Calvert

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4 months

Today a @sundaytimes Insight team undercover investigation with @arbuthnott reveals the backdoor routes used by Britain’s cash-strapped universities to bring in high fee-paying overseas students on lower grades. Read about it here:

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Felt so sorry for our village pub tonight. They don't serve food but a big party have rented a holiday house up the road and asked if they could feed them. Landlord offered to make fish and chips - they confirmed... then didn't show up. Job is hard enough without people like that

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

I worry that we have no space left in our schools any more for the old school 'awe and wonder' teacher, of the type I was lucky enough to have. The demands now are almost universally bureaucratic, procedural, mechanistic.

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

I am a geriatric millenial, so grew up late 80s/90s. Forever reading on here how much the country has changed, which nearly always reverts to a discussion on immigration. What gets left out is the subtle and important ways other things in society have changed too. Some examples:

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

If lots of pupils aren't happy in our schools and lots of teachers aren't happy in our schools and lots of Headteachers arent happy in our schools then I think maybe we need to consider that the issue isn't the pupils or the teachers or the Headteachers.

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

1 year

Anyway if you're ever in the North Lakes or on the A595 to Workington then do pop in to the Oddfellows in Bolton Low Houses and have a drink

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Michael Merrick

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10 months

This stuff gets to the nub of why the working class have turned on the modern progressive left - not because they have any love of Farage, but because they don't trust the progressive left to give a fair hearing to those whom they oppose (which is often the working class)

The News Agents

@TheNewsAgents

10 months

“The power of the populist is, somehow, to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.” @maitlis on Nigel Farage using his Coutts bank account closure to provoke a culture war. Coming to @GlobalPlayer

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Michael Merrick

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7 months

The scenes in London and elsewhere all the more incredible when you remember the woman who was arrested and taken to court for praying silently in the wrong place

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5 months

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Michael Merrick

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4 months

I cannot see how the university sector can survive unscathed over the coming years. The social and political winds are no longer in their favour. And they've not done much to help themselves with that.

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Michael Merrick

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2 months

Good grief - I don't think there is a person on this planet who would not be moved by this from Nadine Dorries. WARNING: extremely upsetting content

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Michael Merrick

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10 months

People might think they're landing a blow on Eton types with private school taxes - what they're really doing is driving out provincial schools, with their long history, modest fees and lots of bursaries, which have served a place for an age, interwoven into the local fabric

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Working in a school in a deprived area is a good thing. It's something many choose not to do. But please, when describing the challenges that exist or the issues that arise, remember the dignity of those you serve. They're real people with real lives - not just juicy anecdotes.

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

2) Shops were nearly all closed on Sundays. Most people did not work. You did stuff together, or went somewhere, or visited family, or knocked about watching tv together. Even football on a Sunday had only recently started.

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Michael Merrick

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1) Everyone knew someone who had fought in the War. It didn't really feel like history yet, it was something you could (sometimes) talk about to people who were there. Nobody was in any doubt the war was a triumph, and a tragedy.

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

I'm not saying immigration hasn't been transformative in some areas. I am saying that this is just one aspect of change, and the other stuff is more whoesale, and neglected. And where will you find many of those traditions preserved? Well, in immigrant households. The great irony

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

6) you mostly trusted people in charge. Police, doctors, teachers, anyone with a uniform really. That might be my child-memory overstating things, but your parents/grandparents generally did the same. And they generally took the adult's side over you if there was an issue

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Michael Merrick

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5) You watched tv together. Even the stuff you hated. Watching Saturday night tv together was legitimate entertainment, and most of your friends and adults around you watched the same thing. Just about everyone watched the nightly news.

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

Suspect Catholic schools are more diverse and inclusive than the membership and leadership of Humanists UK

Humanists UK

@Humanists_UK

6 months

'We really don’t need more faith schools in this country. I wish the government would prioritise inclusive schools, rather than using taxpayer’s money to fund the Church of England's indoctrination programme.' Our Vice President @theAliceRoberts .

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Michael Merrick

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7 months

For the first time in my life, and with great sadness, I think we might have to call time on the Beeb

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6 months

4) Barely anyone had a mobile. Those who did didn't have games on it, until a little later when snake appeared on the nokia. Everyone used the hone phone, sometimes with a comically long lead. Privacy? Flirting? Forget it. Your family knew everything. And everyone.

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

@SallyBu69388163 Thats a good shout

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Michael Merrick

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5 months

I see Miriam Cates is getting hammered again for making the argument that not every parent might want to be pressured back to work immediately and perhaps we should help them too.

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Michael Merrick

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8) for those who grew up on a council estate... they were more socially and professionally diverse. It wasn't unusual for (eg) teachers, or social workers, or mechanics, or nurses, or arty types to be living on them.

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10) there was a general respect for, and affinity with, the Christian faith. It was nornal for this to provide the words and images and symbolism for communal events. Nobody really questioned this much. Nearly all schools sang hymns and said prayer.

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Michael Merrick

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11 months

When you think of everything teachers and Heads put into their schools, that only 18 and 15 percent of boys and girls respectively like school a lot is an absolute tragedy. There is something wrong with the way we do schooling and it starts at the top.

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

3) The internet wasn't really a thing yet for most people. Gaming wasn't really a thing yet for most people - you played computer games, yes, but they were less immersive, and often a shared activity as not everyone had a console.

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Essentially we've franchised this out to 'curriculum', which is nothing but efficient at stripping out spontaneity, individuality and teacher themselves (no deviation, and scripts for delivery?!). But it doesn't work. Enchantment is forged in relationship not in PowerPoint

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

17) big one - as there was high trust children had much more leeway. As an infant, you could walk home alone at lunchtime for some dinner. When out playing, you could knock on a door and ask to use the loo (😱). You could roam quite far, but only until the (street) lights came on

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

I'm seeing lots of tweets about how higher ability children in particular were very upset at not being able to manage the SATs reading paper. We need to remember that there are a large group of children every single year who feel like that when they do the reading paper.

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

Anyway pausing now as am neglecting the kids. The point I'm making is the changed world people see and say they dislike, or the old world they say they miss, is (it seems to me) less about immigration and more to do with cultural changes we all cheered and brought about together

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Michael Merrick

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14) as everyone generally consumed the same media and the same news, there were shared cultural reference points - the same politicians, tv presenters, singers, sportsmen and women, actors etc. These people slowly passing on has huge cultural resonance often not given due weight

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I think we should mourn that loss. I even think (whisper it) we should try and reverse it, that there needs to be a correction on curriculum thinking that recognises what a monumental workload drain it's become for precious little impact. That it is about enchantment, not control

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9) most people you met were born and brought up in the place you met them. Most had not been to university. There was generally more scepticism about the need and desirability of doing so. And about education more generally I think?

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

7) where you from was probably your most important (only?) 'identity'. And this was often hyper local

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Michael Merrick

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1 month

It's mad to me that stay-at-home motherhood often finds itself dumped meekly into the 'explain any absences' section of the cv instead of front and centre on the employment history section outlining the ridiculous number of skills and expertise developed during said 'absence'

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Michael Merrick

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10 months

@johnmilbank3 am living in this mad world where a protestant tells catholics off for being protestant because they uphold catholic teaching against protestants

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Michael Merrick

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5 months

Ok, money where your mouth is: if this is really about choice, let's do it. For every pound invested in childcare hours, pledge the same £ amount for parents who choose to stay home with their child/ren. Completely fair and equal funding - let people make their own choice. Deal?

Michael Merrick

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5 months

I see Miriam Cates is getting hammered again for making the argument that not every parent might want to be pressured back to work immediately and perhaps we should help them too.

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

There is lots that can leave you feeling a bit disoriented at the mo but the thing that has really pulled the rug from underneath me has been the antisemitism, its scale and openness. When you think/assume everyone believes x, and then you learn they don't, it's really unsettling

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Senior HMI admits a small primary can never be outstanding. Right from the very start, we said this. For all the soothing tones Ofsted used, those on the ground knew fine well. This ridiculous EIF created a hostile environment for smaller schools, which means for whole regions.

Frank Norris

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1 year

Former Senior HMI Adrian Gray has just posted a short and interesting take on Ofsted's woes. Here is the link

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Michael Merrick

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18) you got your clothes out of the catalogue and this was fine - most people did it. Hardly anyone went on 'shopping sprees' or 'retail therapy'. Charity shops weren't as much of a thing. Renting household items, like tvs or a hoover, was pretty normal.

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12) most sports were not professional, and those that were didn't have much appeal anyway. Sport was both amateurish and accessible, but also not the be all and end all. Not every kid decent at a sport was thinking about turning a pro. It was just for fun. All types played

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Michael Merrick

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11) most people's Mam's were working at home whilst they were at school. Most people's Dad's worked outside the home. Not working was a thing that others felt fit to pass comment on (this could be hurtful). Whingeing about work was a norm and often a social event.

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Headteachers - and especially of smaller rural schools - are some of the most talented, dedicated, resilient, skilled, competent people you could meet. I'm not sure we say thank you enough. So with both my professional and my parental hat on: thank you. Heroes.

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Michael Merrick

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12 days

think that might have been the least family-friendly eurovision ever

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15) There wasn't the same approbation around drinking, eating take-aways, smoking. Health and lifestyle weren't really things yet, beyond Mr Motivator. Health was when sonething went wrong, not preventative self-analysis and lifestyle choices.

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Which takes us back to that first tweet - the awe and wonder teacher, lead by interest and excitement, embracing spontaneity, getting to an end point by a squiggly line not a straight one. Neither sequential nor maximally efficient, but one heck of a teacher.

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Night all xx

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

We've burdened a whole generation with eye-watering debt, insisting they get a degree just to do the jobs their parents and grandparents were allowed to do without one, *and which we desperately need them to do*. At some point the stinking injustice of it all is going to bite us

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

13) nicknames were standard - everybody had one. This carriednon into adulthood. Kids could use adult's nicknames at social gatherings, but only if they weren't family, or were a teacher or policeman or whatever

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Michael Merrick

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16) there were very different attitudes to health and safety, especially at work. Accidents were generally just seen as a misfortune, a sort of there but for the grace of God. It often led to a life on 'benefits' but this wasn't judged negatively like 'the dole'.

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Michael Merrick

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4 months

@CGVowles read the article

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

The child was a fully viable 32-34 weeks. She was subsequently stillborn. Paramedics worked on trying to resuscitate her for 45 minutes before she was declared dead. Her name was Lily.

Hannah Al-Othman

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1 year

I’m told there will be a march taking place on Saturday, from the Royal Courts of Justice to Westminster, with campaigners demanding changes to abortion laws. It has been organised after a woman was today jailed for 28 months for taking abortion pills after the legal time limit.

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Michael Merrick

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Big day

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

You could improve social mobility overnight by removing the gradclass protectionism on jobs - especially in the public sector - that historically working class nongrads could always access.

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Michael Merrick

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1 month

Cass review could shine an uncomfortable light on some of what has been going on in education. Some folk will have pretty uncomfortable questions to answer. Tip of the iceberg.

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Michael Merrick

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10 months

This picture though. From World Youth Day in Lisbon, where approx 1.5 million young people turned out. It's not been on the news, which is extraordinary really, but still, there is life and there is hope. Beautiful

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Michael Merrick

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8 months

Whether its people out in the streets celebrating the attacks, or football fans waving Free Palestine flags not long after they happened, or politicians with 'you brought this on yourself' equivocation, we need to acknowledge we have a big anti-semitism problem in the UK

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

My Dad is a parcel delivery man. He's just sent me a video of the piles of parcels he had to deliver today - 176. Brought back covid-era reminiscence of just how crucial these people are, and how little thanked or respected they are with it.

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

The curriculum over-focus has not (and can not) achieve its stated aim of improvement. It can't because it doesn't even know how to measure that. However, it has (and will) achieve its aims of consistency of input. Which means it was and is always in tension with teacher autonomy

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

40 today. Middle age begins.

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Michael Merrick

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7 months

The sheer shamelessness of antisemitism in the UK is what is most disconcerting. People who detect racism in every disparity, interaction or ambiguity, nonetheless don't see it here, in its most explicit, open and candid form. Again, how do we get out ourselves out of this?

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

However, the impact has been the reinforcing of a precious error, which is thinking that absolute consistency of input ensures consistent output. It was/is a factory line model of thinking, and whilst there are certain wins to come from it, there are losses to be charted too

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Rural England needs a new lease of life. We should hugely liberalise/fast-track planning for new houses. Rural UK has been depopulated and is a nostalgia themepark for the wealthy- but our schools, shops, churches, and countless other services need more than just wealthy retirees

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

So I read on Twitter that Liverpool is right wing now.

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Only the BBC could do a write up of Satanists in which they're the cuddly fluffy good guys and Catholics are the real baddies

The Satanic Temple: Think you know about Satanists? Maybe you don't

Rituals, blasphemy, and English Breakfast tea: Step inside The Satanic Temple's annual convention.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Michael Merrick

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2 months

@BigGeordieGeek if that's your coping mechanism then fine

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

I hope we don't find ourselves settling for blaming a single lead inspector, or putting it down to poor inspection etiquette. There is absolutely no doubt that there are excellent inspectors who care deeply, but the reality is this is a feature of a high stakes system, not a bug.

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Michael Merrick

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5 months

The habit, yes, but I think also the (general) culture of deference toward schools, greater scepticism around the impact of missing days, and a new reckoning of education amidst the general sea of priorities a family must navigate.

Tom Bennett OBE

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5 months

‘1 in 4 parents now think it’s fine for children to skip school’ is something you hope to never read. Lockdown broke the habit of attendance for many- lots of institutions have seen numbers decrease because of it, like churches. Schools need to work hard to get them back. But

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Michael Merrick

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1 month

Bit of a posh lunch today

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Michael Merrick

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4 months

2 secs just busy trying to get my head round the idea of Israel not being reliable 'partners for peace' but Hamas are

LBC

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'We've got a responsibility to recognise a Palestinian state...' '…and we need to work around the Israeli government because they have shown they're not partners for peace', Labour's Wes Streeting tells @AndrewMarr9 .

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Nate Erskine-Smith

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The sky hasn’t fallen. The slope isn’t slippery. Medical assistance in dying has been an overwhelming success in Canada. It has enhanced freedom, reduced suffering, and provided a dignified death to thousands of people in need. Read more here:

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Michael Merrick

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11 months

That's an odd coalition of people suddenly deciding that students covertly recording their teachers is ok

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Michael Merrick

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20 days

Ah yes, Catholic schools: famously incubating radicalism. Clearly the last thing we need right now is children to be taught to love another, as they too are too loved. Dangerous indoctrination. Get rid.

Bella Wallersteiner 🇺🇦

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We should get rid of ‘faith schools’ entirely in the UK. Publicly funded education should be secular. The last thing our education system needs is religious silos which might incubate radicalism and indoctrinate young minds.

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Michael Merrick

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4 months

@Mr_KeithTaylor @CGVowles Hey Keith, if you want to proactively tweet someone to make a corrective point about an article you haven't read, don't. Happy to help.

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Michael Merrick

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8 months

Agreed. Any lingering regard I had for the BBC has disappeared this past 24hrs.

Stephen Pollard

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8 months

"The word we keep hearing is unprecedented, the scale and ferocity of attacks on both sides." Just now, presenter on BBC News. "On both sides." The BBC has been an utter disgrace these last 24 hours.

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Michael Merrick

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Would like to tentatively suggest we might help recruitment somewhat by not telling people they have to get £40k+ debt whilst living in poverty for several years and then pay it back with interest before they're even allowed to interview for the job we really need them to do

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Michael Merrick

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9 months

The schools RAAC list will continue to grow. 1) the data on which the list is based is iffy. It relies on self-reporting and doesn't include those who didn't report, nor can it be sure of the diligence of those who did (there was no minimum standard of investigation eg/surveyor)

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Commentators talking as if Man City are a modern day David and have just beaten Goliath, instead of the reality which is a club on financial steroids with the pick of the best players in the world have finally won a competition they should have won years ago

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Michael Merrick

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10 months

Tbf this has been happening to working class people for decades but we're kind of ok with it because convenience or progress or something

USA TODAY

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10 months

"Breaking Bad" star Bryan Cranston slammed the use of AI during a SAG-AFTRA rally: "We will not be having our jobs taken away and given to robots."

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Michael Merrick

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This Tate-ification of maleness is so limp. It cannot find strength in service, duty, protection, honour - only in domination, or the intentionally obnoxious. This isn't male dignity or strength - this is just incel culture in spiritual form.

Sulaiman Ahmed

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9 months

Men Whipped (Controlled) by their Wives and Abandon their Friends Practically all married men are doormats for their wives and kids. They are completely focused on them. They permission to hang out with their friends and when they have the audacity to hang around with

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

You know what the snide abuse MAT bosses get on here from some in the ed sector (or the hangers on) is unbelievable. I've never yet met a CEO who doesn't work their socks off for the benefit and betterment of all in their schools. Honestly education is an absolute pit at times

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Michael Merrick

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7 months

never forget

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Michael Merrick

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11 months

If we can't protect teachers from this kind of treatment, the profession is finished. The correct way to deal with this is for the child to tell their parent, and the parent to follow the complaints process. Turning it into a media circus helps no-one

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Michael Merrick

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1 year

Sure, workload and underappreciation happens because private schools don't pay taxes. What a risible bit of culture war. And when the private schools have had their charitable status revoked, and there are still problems in the education system, who do we scapegoat next?

Bridget Phillipson

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Overworked, overstretched and under appreciated teachers are leaving in their droves. Labour will end private schools’ tax breaks to invest in 6,500 more teachers to make workloads manageable and drive up standards across our country.

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Michael Merrick

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I find the 'behaviour curriculum' talk in secondary intriguing. I can imagine it has some value, but there is the implication that children arrive ill-formed and need full (re)programming. But then most of them behave perfectly well at primary. So what happens in between?

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Michael Merrick

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Maybe it's an age thing but Advent - its readings, its language, the symbolism - seems to hit harder now than it ever has. Waiting in darkness, huddled in defeat and despair, longing for the light - just seems easier than ever to recognise and connect with those themes.

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Michael Merrick

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And it won't. This is just naked class war with all its snarling iconoclasm. The private sector provides a model of excellence outside the state, a different way of doing things, and if this is an offense to justice then make the state better, because those kids deserve it too

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Michael Merrick

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And that's the explicit milieu out of which it arose - desire for chalkface-consistency (read uniformity), and the desire for wide access to expertise. There's nothing wrong with that in itself, and the tension with autonomy is a necessary pendulum in every organisation.

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Michael Merrick

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The left have spent months/years diligently rebuilding trust amongst those who have long thought the left just don't like them - all of this has been torched this last 48hrs. They now have to reconvince a chunk of voters that they wouldn't let this kind of thing happen to you

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Michael Merrick

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6 months

Tonight's rosary for every Head struggling with the stress and demands of Headship. If you're the praying type, do please send up a prayer for them. If you're not, send warm thoughts and good wishes - He hears them too. 🙏

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Michael Merrick

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18 days

I see the people who don't believe in Christ or go to church are out blaming Muslims for the loss of Christian culture again. Deeply unserious people.

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Michael Merrick

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9 months

If you're a teacher on here, following the education debate, be mindful of its impact on your mental wellbeing. Discussing shared issues is important and helpful - constant negativity about teaching is not. Curate your timeline carefully to balance it out because it will corrode

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Michael Merrick

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If a kid wants to become a nurse or a teacher or a doctor or a social worker right now then at the *very least* we should damn well pay for their training, or scrap the gradclass protectionism entirely

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

4 months

please never retire community notes

Atheist Girl

@iamAtheistGirl

4 months

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

4 months

Whatever else you choose to be in this life, however else you choose to spend your days, please, for the love of God, please please never choose to be the kind of person who takes to social media to wish someone a horrible death to show commitment to your ideological priors.

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

1 year

Is it just me or does the 'accidentally printed cartoon with massively anti-semitic tropes' thing seem to happen to the Guardian more than anyone else?

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

10 months

@AccountNo3445 @johnmilbank3 This not a 'trad' Catholic issue - it is the teaching of the Church, plain and simple.

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

11 months

Literally the only people who could make you feel a bit sorry for George Osborne

Just Stop Oil

@JustStop_Oil

11 months

You look good in orange @George_Osborne — congratulations to the newlyweds.

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Michael Merrick

@michael_merrick

8 months

Brand will rightly be dropped like a stone, but the uncomfortable truth is a whole industry - indeed a whole culture - laughed this all off as edgy and transgressive, all the funnier for provoking the (often religious) prudes and bores. And still they lecture us.

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