Ben Farren

Director of Mathematics in SW London | @UKLabour member | NPQLTD | Highest scoring loser Mastermind semi-final

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

Got the David Lynch cadence

[summer 🖕 @salesforcechild]

i am so stressed out from running my pet lizards instagram account i’m about to have a nervous breakdown

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

@adamboxer1 So… which is the one school?

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

@mathsjem @studymaths @DrFrostMaths @MrTaylorMaths2 @nathanday314 @JaggersMaths @RJS2212 @MrCarterMaths @adamboxer1 @BerwickMaths @mrbartonmaths @1stclassmaths @hartmaths @jemmaths @taylorda01 @SparksMaths @draustinmaths @gcse_math @AMercerMaths @hkettlemaths #edutwitter

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

Spent my holidays vibe coding - free maths revision app that uses spaced repetition so stuff actually sticks. Still pretty early but would love to know what you think! https://t.co/QsJ0wInVOS

I'd be incredibly grateful if you had a browse and gave some feedback :)

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

@adamboxer1 Hi Adam, long time fan! How does your school deal with lack of access to devices/lack of parental involvement/lack of uptake?

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

flipping heck @RutherfordHsSch really looking out for the teachers out there

[AlexTopsAll2 @AlexTopsAll2]

bro the editing on this is insane

#WWERaw

[Mona @theonemonaa]

WWE has made me feel January 6th is the most important day of my life.

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

@flowergirl_lon Sad and scary, stay safe over Christmas!!

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

Based actually

[Buzzing Pop @BuzzingPop]

Ariana Grande reveals she called up Cynthia Erivo to go over their contracts for ‘Wicked’ to ensure equal terms:

“Let’s go beat per beat through this together and make sure that we’re aligned in what we need because if you need something, we need it together. I want us to have each other’s back, like, your problems become my problems and [vice versa].”

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

Completely iconic

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Ariana Grande says she didn’t understand any part of the “holding space” moment in the viral ‘WICKED’ interview:

“I didn’t know what any part of it meant. I didn’t understand the first sentence, and then I definitely didn’t understand how Cynthia responded. And I just wanted to be there. Because I knew something big was happening, and I didn’t know how to be there… Gilchrist is also an amazing interviewer and a lovely person”

(Source: https://t.co/2PtRafE7uP)

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

@StudyMaths I ran this as a CPD this afternoon with my team! Loved it! They enjoyed taking responsibility for the previous “artificial” sins…

[Tim Farron @timfarron]

So…I am against assisted dying but in favour of summary execution for people playing stuff on their phone out loud on trains.

[Leila Ben-Hassel 🇺🇦🌹 @Leila4Norbury]

Great to attend the opening of the new Streatham & Croydon North Constituency Office with local community representatives and councillors.

A great opportunity to meet new groups and exchange on local project ideas.

A new era!

Thanks to all involved in organising this evening

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Quick story about Sven-Goran Ericksson (RIP). Such a good man, open and easy to talk to. You needed humility being the first “foreign” England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 manager, but one night we realised just how humble (and witty) he was.

At a charity dinner after the World Cup in 2006, when he was no longer England manager, I was lucky enough to be on his table. Finding my moment, I asked “why did you include a 17 year old Theo Walcott in the World Cup squad when he hadn’t played a single game in the Premier league?”

I didn’t want to upset him because it was a controversial decision at the time - he took an injured Wayne Rooney and a struggling Michael Owen but left out a fit and well Jermaine Defoe. But he replied “no, it’s a good question. Many would like to know. I could not say then, but I can now…” and explained his thinking with a measured response:

“You know, the countries that do well at World Cups always have a ‘secret weapon’. A player unknown to the other teams, to bring on as a substitute to help win a game in the latter stages. This was Theo. And we agreed to use him only in a semi-final or the final.” He and his assistant Tord Grip had seen Walcott in a reserve game at Arsenal and said Theo had “lightening pace” and was “extremely skilful.” Theo was “the perfect unknown quantity to surprise teams and steal a goal and win a championship. That’s why we took him, not Jermaine” he concluded.

I then offered “but Sven, in the quarter final v Portugal we lost on penalties. After Rooney got sent off, surely that was the time to bring on Walcott - not Peter Crouch as you did - to use Theo’s pace and score an extra time winner when we were down to 10 men?”

He looked at me as if it was the first time anyone had ever suggested the idea. He looked ruefully at all of us on the table and said “well now that you say it, yes maybe I should have. In retrospect, this was a mistake.”

The table went silent. We all seemed to be contemplating what could have been, for England and for Theo Walcott. Sven broke the silence with “Omid. Tell us a joke.” I laughed coz it was a delightfully off beat way to deflect, and without thinking, I did. A really inappropriate joke that got absolutely nothing. With a wink and a smile Sven then said “you see, it’s not always easy to think of the right thing to do in the moment, as Mr. Djalili just showed us, and so well.” Cue big laugh.

We understood at that moment, sometimes even the best laid plans can go to cock. And that’s life. It was new information and no one judged him.

Personally I was just thrilled he knew my name.

#SvenGoranEriksson

[emma @do_not_test_me]

i do not know what the DNC is and i never want to know, but every time i read the acronym my brain says ‘Democratic Nepublic of Congo’

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

"Lots of people are saying we can take gay dead wedding rings, lots of people, I wouldn't do it, but some people are saying we can do it"

[Acyn @Acyn]

Nessel: By the way, I got a message for the Republicans and justices of the United States Supreme Court. You can pry this wedding band from my cold dead gay hand.

[Ben Farren @bfarren94]

Starmer should get MC Devvo to come to the floor at Conference

[Colin @ufcolin]

the european mind cannot comprehend lil jon doing georgia's roll call

[Colin @ufcolin]

the european mind cannot comprehend lil jon doing georgia's roll call