Told my Mum today that there are now two books by her son on @audibleuk. She's buzzing. Thanks to @itpressuk and @CrownHousePub for supporting this alternative format, and to all of you who have supported the books over the years! https://t.co/k1Gol8rbLU
So to be judged ‘exceptional’ at inclusion you can select your intake. Who knew? That gives carte blanche to all ‘schools down the road’ that behave despicably and select by having an ‘uninclusive’ reputation and behaviour compliance
It is in everybody’s best interests - including the government’s and Ofsted’s - that the system works with schools rather than seeming to work against them.
Latest Ofsted failings show need to rethink school inspection | Tes https://t.co/6b0dgbuS68
After I finished writing The Castle I went to the cage fight at the White House for @GQMagazine I was right there on the south lawn - blood spatter close. Here’s my story. There’s no paywall, for now at least
https://t.co/zP502vF4OD
When Grease came out in 1978, it was set in the summer of 1959.
If Grease came out today it would be set in the summer of 2007.
2007 is now as much a period piece to 2026 as 1959 was to 1978. Let that sink in. 😭
But 2007 was only last week...
Disappointingly this is just another example of schools being given an additional expectation to meet without any resources being made available to support them
I also worked with Tim Curry on a staged reading of “All About Eve” for the Actor’s Fund. He played the most cutting incisive Addison DeWitt I’ve ever seen, and brought the house down.
Later he told me, that night lit a fire under him. He said he went home and swam in the pool at midnight and looked at the stars and wondered what he was doing with his life. Shortly after that I heard he was starring on Broadway in a Tony nominated role in Spamalot.
A brilliant comedic actor. Gone too soon.
I'd rather see Andy Burnham playing the guitar, than Liz Truss adding £400 to my mortgage payments, Sunak asking a Tramp if he works in The City, or Boris holding drunken orgies while the country is locked down
Dolly Parton spent a heckuva lot of her time, energy, and money helping the poor, and some of her favorite people in the world were flamboyantly fabulous drag queens. Remember that when you see the MAGAs trying to co-opt her legacy right now
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Is school too much about one size fits all? Do many of our learners thrive despite the school system not because of it? How much choice do kids really get about what and how they learn?
At the end of the day … there are those, like @vicgoddard, who have the courage to lead schools … and then are those who virtue signal from the safety of their X account.
Vic Goddard has dedicated his life to helping young people in Harlow and it's outrageous that a man, who spent his time as education secretary belittling the teachers, should criticise Vic in this way.
The only thing Mr Gove achieved was convincing me to join the Labour Party.