Steve McCormack

Still learning, after a working life in broadcast and print journalism, a bit of school teaching and education and sport comms. NW London.

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@Telegraph Idiots. Asylum. Pearson: you should be ashamed.

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@bphillipsonMP @educationgovuk Genuine question. Where do these numbers come from? I realise headline figures have to be used at times, but where can I find chapter and verse on all this, please, @educationgovuk ?

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@simongerman600 This feels like a terrible indictment of our higher education system, ever since T Blair's well-intentioned but misguided push to get 50 per cent of school-leavers going to university. We should start reversing this now.

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@frankwatson58 Keep up the grumpiness, Frank.

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@jburnmurdoch @georginaquach Sadly, this is not remotely surprising. For years, a friend of mine has taught at university summer schools for incoming post grad students (largely Chinese). No one is allowed to fail, however poor their written and spoken English.

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@greg_ashman Not 'before the 60s' Greg. Through the 60s and into the 70s. In Worthing, West Sussex, I started at a grammar school in 1968, and it only started winding down, by not taking new entrants, in 1973.

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@daisychristo As an @OfficialBHAFC season ticket holder, I think there may be some strength in the general observation (of a relatively dull sesson) but then we've been not much better than WHU this year.

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@IPPR @harry_qp @LBCNews Yes, but two things. 1. Teachers in mainstream schools are already doing (or rather trying, when other pressures pemit) all strategies promised under this new order. 2. How far will this 'more support' actually go, spread around 20,000 plus schools?

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@SainsburysNews 2/2 Plus, the control is not even necessary. In 15 years I have never known the car park being completely full. This information sign of yours could be straight out of 1984.

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@SainsburysNews 1/2 Why have you allowed Euro Car Parks to take over your car park in Willesden Green? The information boards are nowhere near prominent enough to catch drivers' attention. There is not enough proactive comms inside the shop. People will get caught and blame you.

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@ianpacemain What a great police officer!

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@dylanwiliam @olicav @90sFootballUK1 @7CraigWill Some of us started with thin, rectangular sections, not these fancy, modern hexagons and pentagons.

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@michael_merrick @BarryNSmith79 Yes. It would be good to know where the smaller font size quote in Barry's post comes from.

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@DawnButlerBrent Good morning. Dawn. It was nice to meet you at the food bank in Willesden Green yesterday. Could I send you a private message about our work, please?

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@tombennett71 Tom. I think there's an error in your original post. There's a 'with' that should be a 'without.'

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Re phones in school. Yes, they can be used responsibly in classrooms. Yes, schools do have a role in teaching 'digital health.' But the benefits of kids having zero access to that device for a whole school day for me far outweigh those arguments.

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@frankwatson58 @OfficialBHAFC @afcbournemouth I was at this game, Frank. Bournemouth were blatant in everything you mention, and the ref seemed weak beyond belief in dealing with it. It goes without saying that it wasn't like that in our day!

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@henrywinter Ditto cricket. I'm just back from Australia where all Ashes tests were on free to air TV.

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@OfficialBHAFC @Kissimmee Perth, Western Australia

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A lot of what @MarkUrban01 says here rings true with me, from my (admittedly far shorter) experience in BBC newsrooms.

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🗣️ ‘You see much more woke tendencies among younger members of staff'

Journalist and historian @MarkUrban01 tells @SophyRidgeSky how he’s seen the BBC change⬇️

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