michael kelly

AST primary, Writer/Teacher MA Goldsmiths. Ministry of Stories. Author of 'Moving the Relics'. There's cold tea in my microwave.

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

Lends itself to the Socratic method. Excellent list. I would add:
* Praise jacket (top, shirt)
* Ask for a size 40 (your size here)

[Simon Smith @smithsmm]

This is still sat on my Office noticeboard l, in primary the best teachers are massively interested in the children they teach.

This list from Tim Brighouse still works for me.

[Dr Penny Hay 🇪🇺🕊💚🌳🐝🦋🌹🌈 @PenAHay]

Never more urgent Jeanette Winterson ❤️

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@Anna_Soubry There is an off switch. Mute both of these people. Your life will be happier.

[Mr Benn @thebowlerhatman]

It always amazes me how many famous people get so lucky in the Wimbledon ticket ballot.

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@frankcottrell_b Like the video and agree with your conclusion, I remember Neil Kinnock doing a low tech version of this in an 80s party political broadcast, but in the parable it was the man with only 1 talent who didn't invest the money.

[Alf Dubs @AlfDubs]

It's Coming Home

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@Simon_Gregg @estelleash @RCurran15 @karenbarber27 @Gillian60783838 Such a great quote Simon. Sorry not to have seen it when you first posted!

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

Kudos

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Lady with wavy hair, "I'm sat here and I'm baffled that you (Andrew Mitchell) can talk about serious youth violence as if your party is not directly responsible for services being stripped to their bones"

"Grassroots organisations are on their knees. They're supporting vulnerable young people"

"Until you acknowledge that we need proper intervention into early intervention services, police need a working definition of child criminal exploitation, young people need to be treated as the victims that they are; not further criminalised, further harmed and pushed to the edges of society"

"At best your party has been incompetent. At worst you have been negligent"

"You are directly responsible for the increase in youth violence, loss of life and liberty, that we are seeing in our communities"

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

The post war consensus is alive in a library in Reading.

[amelia gentleman @ameliagentleman]

Take some time today to read this really brilliant @gdnlongread by @AidaE

It's an unexpectedly gripping account of daily life inside west Reading's Battle library, and the heroic people who work there

https://t.co/ArWIR0ZhKn

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

This man talks so much sense.

[Led By Donkeys @ByDonkeys]

It’s Windrush Day. Sixty-nine years ago Sidney McFarlane arrived in Dover from Jamaica. Now he’s back, with an important message for Sunak and Starmer

[amelia gentleman @ameliagentleman]

Looking forward to seeing the stage version of Sitting in Limbo tonight
Stephen Thompson's brilliant film about the Windrush scandal has been adapted for the stage
#windrushday
https://t.co/YGdaxLgSJY

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@coldwarsteve @Nigel_Farage And sent him homeward. To think again.

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@coldwarsteve @Conservatives Eloquent, as ever. Bullseye.

[Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve]

@Nigel_Farage

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@PeterStefanovi2 You're a credit to him.

[Frank Cottrell-Boyce @frankcottrell_b]

THe last decade has been a war on youth

[AJR Refugee Voices Archive @AJRefugeeVoices]

Yesterday commemorates 80 years since the first Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Judith Steinberg was deported from Paks in June 1944:

"We were put in a big school hall, we were all sitting on the floor with a rucksack. They said we are going to go to work…"

1/14

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@Simon_Gregg Desman says to Molly girl I like your face...

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@Simon_Gregg But which I have clearly failed to do.

[michael kelly @michaelkellyB]

@Simon_Gregg @MrsGormanEYFS @MrsGormanEYFS post is fun and asks a serious question about evidence collection in Early Years. Fridgeworthy.
Your comment on process reflects a proper understanding.
Richard Feynman makes a similar comment to your 'controlling fingers' observation which I will try to source.

[Simon Knott @SimoninSuffolk]

Geoffrey Hill was one of the most important English poets of the second half of the 20th Century, although the complexity of his work meant that he was never as popular as the likes of Larkin and Heaney. His work often draws on folk memories, myths and landscapes of a discordant and sometimes brutal English past, and often has Christian resonances too. Here's 'Genesis', an early poem:

' I

Against the burly air I strode,
Where the tight ocean heaves its load,
Crying the miracles of God.

And first I brought the sea to bear
Upon the dead weight of the land;
And the waves flourished at my prayer,
The rivers spawned their sand.

And where the streams were salt and full,
The tough pig-headed salmon strove,
Curbing the ebb and the tide’s pull
To reach the steady hills above.

II

The second day I stood and saw
The osprey plunge with triggered claw,
Feathering blood along the shore,
To lay the living sinew bare.

III

And I renounced, on the fourth day,
This fierce and unregenerate clay,

Building as a huge myth for man
The watery Leviathan,

And made the glove-winged albatross
Scour the ashes of the sea
Where Capricorn and Zero cross,
A brooding immortality—
Such as the charméd phoenix has
In the unwithering tree.

IV

The phoenix burns as cold as frost;
And, like a legendary ghost
The phantom-bird goes wild and lost,
Upon pointless ocean tossed.

So, the fifth day, I turned again
To flesh and blood and the blood’s pain.

V

On the sixth day, as I rode
In haste about the works of God,
With spurs I plucked the horse’s blood.

By blood we live, the hot, the cold
To ravage and redeem the world:
There is no bloodless myth will hold.

And by Christ’s blood are men made free
Though in close shrouds their bodies lie
Under the rough pelt of the sea;

Though Earth has rolled beneath her weight
The bones that cannot bear the light.'

Early 16th Century glass depicting God creating the World, at Hengrave Hall Chapel, Suffolk.

More: https://t.co/0G46k2pcZl

[Roger Robinson @rrobinson72]

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