Devesh Sharma

I write about films for a living. Interested in comics, music, poetry, Football, Manchester United, books, fantasy fiction, and cinema.

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

SHE FILMED THE TRUTH INSIDE BRITISH CLASSROOMS

In 2005 science teacher Alex Dolan strapped on a hidden camera and walked into 4 schools in Leeds and London.

What she filmed was not shocking to anyone who has ever set foot in a British secondary school. Pupils fighting on desks. Kids swearing in teachers faces.

Staff shuffling the worst behaved pupils out of the building the moment Ofsted @Ofstednews turned up to inspect.

@Channel4 aired the footage as Undercover Teacher, part of the Dispatches @C4Dispatches strand.

Leeds City Council went to the High Court to try to block it. A judge refused the injunction and ruled the programme served the public interest.

Watching a school fake its way through an inspection turns out to be exactly the kind of thing the public has an interest in.

So naturally the system did what it does best. It went after the person who filmed the problem instead of the problem itself.

The General Teaching Council spent 4 years building a case against Dolan. In March 2009 it found her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct for breaching the trust of the pupils she filmed.

Not the staff accused of hiding disruptive kids from inspectors. Not the school that burned through 26 supply teachers in a single year. Her.

She was suspended from teaching for 12 months.

Channel 4's own deputy head of news at the time said publicly it was wrong to punish a whistleblower for this kind of work and that the messenger should not be shot.

Press Gazette @pressgazette called the ruling a sad day for journalism. That was generous.

Dolan left teaching and became a weather presenter for BBC Look East, which is either the most British redemption arc going or proof that forecasting rain is safer than forecasting institutional failure.

No school she filmed faced a tribunal. No member of staff accused of gaming an Ofsted inspection faced a tribunal. The teacher who exposed it did.

SOURCES
@pressgazette
@tes
@C4Dispatches

[jezz @JezziiB]

JD Vance just said that ''America isn't obligated to stand by Ukraine because they aren't in a formal alliance.''

Dear JD. Vance,
Look up ''Budapest Memorandum 1994.''

You are welcome.

[Umashankar Singh उमाशंकर सिंह @umashankarsingh]

मस्क ने तो बस ट्वीट किया था, ट्रंप प्रशासन ने तो visually साबित कर दिया है!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is happening in a lot of states. Republicans are trying to cheat.

[Алёна Попова @alyonapopova]

В 1994 году США, Россия и Украина подписали соглашение об отказе Украины от ядерного оружия. Украина отдала 4 400 ядерных боеголовок. Взамен США и Россия гарантировали Украине «независимость и существующие границы».

Спустя 30 лет один гарант напал, а другой требует капитуляции

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, alongside numerous others, have signed an open letter to the U.K. government backing Sally Rooney, whose books have been withdrawn for sale in the country due to her support for Palestine Action.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

The timing of release of this deadly picture is indicative of a message that "we have many more and can release those too, so you better do all we ask you to".

It's devastating for national sovereignty and pride.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US orders full evacuation of US embassy staff and their families in Saudi Arabia immediately, with families of embassy staff in the UAE, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered out, per a diplomatic source to AFP.

[NEXTA @nexta_tv]

🚨 The whole world needs to hear these words from Zelenskyy:

“Of course, we are not losing this war, but we are losing people and time. And it's heartbreaking, because our children don't have a normal life, they don't have a childhood,” says the Ukrainian president, whose country is now experiencing something that feels very much like betrayal.

[Sara Dillon @sara_dillon]

Checking isn’t enough. Democrats must go to court to demand an investigation.

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

#BREAKING: US Embassy staff and families have been ordered to leave Saudi Arabia, with families of embassy staff in the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain also ordered to leave.

[Laurence Fox @LozzaFox]

Netflix has laid off 1,000 staff today and got rid of much of the creative team.

One wonders what it will take for them to make content for audiences who want to be entertained instead of lectured to about the current progressive thing.

[Kanthaswamy Balasubramaniam @Kanthaswam80359]

People ask me why I am always putting down India

Think of me as an investor who put in 46 years taxes into the country without any returns whatsoever

Meanwhile a Chinese Investor who put in the same 46 years into China has literally seen a revolution in their country

So ultimately when the net result after 79 years Independence is a bearded man who makes elusive claims that he will do in 21 years what no other nation in the history of the world has managed :- I don't believe a word of it

You want me to stop?

Just cut me a cheque for 50% of my taxes paid - and don't tax me on that too 🙏🙏🙏

[🌕 @Moon_AGD]

We sold Wan Bissaka for Mazrouai because we needed more offensive output from our fullback positions.

Since then Wan Bissaka has more premier league goals and assists than both Mazrouai and Dalot combined.

Won’t even speak on the defending ..

[Sara Dillon @sara_dillon]

It’s rigged. Again. 2024 was rigged. So called experts telling us not to worry because it can’t happen. But it is happening. Dems do nothing.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Of course, we are not losing this war. But we are losing people. Because of the Russian attacks, we're losing people and time. It's such a pity, because our children don't have a real life and childhood. Not only children, but all people. That's why we need to end this war as quickly as possible. I hope that our partners, Americans and Europeans, will help us. God bless, our strong soldiers stay strong on the battlefield. It helps me stay strong during any kind of negotiations.

[Gerhardt vd Merwe @realgerhardtvdm]

MASSIVE NEWS:

Zelenskyy agrees to take the defeat and the whooping loss of 25% of his country's territory.

Russia won

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🗳️ Stella Parton (Dolly’s Sister) is among the Tennesseans reporting voting machines tried to flip her @Jerri_M_Green vote to Marsha Blackburn🤔😕

https://t.co/OQAmUIucDz

[Creepy.org @creepydotorg]

In 2016, months after learning her breast cancer was terminal, 42-year-old Molly Kochan left her husband and started having sex with strangers she met online.

Over the next few years, she slept with nearly 200 different men.

Her hormone treatment had unexpectedly sent her sex drive through the roof, and with her time running out, Molly stopped holding back.

After years of surgeries, scars and trauma, sex made her feel alive again and gave her back control of her body.

She told her best friend, Nikki Boyer, everything. Eventually, the two set up a pair of microphones and started recording their conversations about every date.

Even when cancer put her in a hospital bed, she didn’t stop. Between treatments, she sexted strangers and kept writing her memoir.

Before she died in March 2019, at 45, Molly asked Nikki for two promises: publish her book and release their recordings.

Nikki kept both.

[Arlene @ABCDAP]

DO NOT LEAVE THE VOTING BOOTH UNTIL YOU ARE SURE THE MACHINE REGISTERED YOUR 'DEMOCRAT' VOTE. Many people are reporting they voted DEMOCRAT and it clicked back to REPUBLICAN. A voter says it took 4 times before it stayed on DEMOCRAT. The fix is in! https://t.co/CWydzUFAMD