📈 3,008 more teachers in secondaries & special schools
📈1,646 more teachers in colleges
📈Trainee teachers up 13%
📈 Teacher pay up 9.5%
📈 Record investment in schools
If standing up for state schools makes me a spiteful class warrior, I’ll wear it with pride.
#PMQs
Kemi lost her head at PMQs - and afterwards too.
It's not the first time. She's compared me to a Gestapo officer.
I wonder what it is about a working class woman driving record investment in state schools by ending private schools' tax breaks that the Tories hate so much.
Unalloyed good news is so rare, these days, that it's important to savour, when it comes along. This is an unambiguous triumph of science and public policy over ignorance.
Putting aside this case, everybody should read this report by @nickwallis.
The appalling, chaotic conditions he describes are all too familiar in the magistrates’ courts.
This is how @DavidLammy wishes for serious crimes - carrying up to 2 years in prison - to be tried.
@samueljenkinson One of the boys in my class in school when we were about 10 in the 80s said that his dad had Airwolf in his garage. As we lived in the Welsh valleys I found this highly improbable.
I am still amazed that no one has any sort of conscience about Ruairi nearly killing George. Imagine Alice’s reaction when she finds out Iain has known for weeks - and Lillian! And why Adam hasn’t even thought to use this against Brian I don’t know. #TheArchers
Sam Corner - hard left
Ant Middleton - far right
Both men have convictions for assaulting policewomen.
Rob Kenyon (Reform UK) describes Ant Middleton as one of his heroes
Zack Polanski (Green) describes Samuel Corners' sentence as gut-wrenching
Two cheeks of the same arse
@Joe___Allen But true. 27 years in and it’s like a simulation of actual politics and political power. What powers do they have and do they use them? What bold direction has Wales set? If you merely look as if you are doing something as opposed to actually doing something then it’s pointless.
“Daddy, my daddy!”
Jenny Agutter’s cry at the station is unforgettable to anyone who knows the 1970 British masterpiece (I don’t use that word lightly): The Railway Children directed by Lionel Jefferies. It’s his centenary and 29 years ago I talked to him. https://t.co/STs9SZFXdC
Made it out of Ireland with 2 samples of Aughinish alumina powder to get tested.
It’s from two sources: at the refinery and from a worker who doesn’t want to be identified. He told me the biggest threat to his job is russian ownership and he wants it exposed & nationalised