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Saturday, 18th and Sunday, 19th January 2020
Good morfternoon.
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PART FIVE of the long read from Jeremy Gilbert
To take on the right wing media, we need to build a political movement
Labour's defeat and the triumph of Johnsonism, part five: the movement and the media.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opende ... -movement/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
To take on the right wing media, we need to build a political movement
Labour's defeat and the triumph of Johnsonism, part five: the movement and the media.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opende ... -movement/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Ah, the media - a good thing to ask the contenders about at the imminent Labour leadership hustings!
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Morning all.
After having done the weekly shopping, I settled down to watch...it raining in SA.
Anyway, this is rather fun - a row between academy trusts and Ofsted with Dfe not knowing which side to back.
In the Battle of Ofsted, ministers are in the crossfire
https://www.tes.com/news/battle-ofsted- ... -crossfire
But Amanda Spielman was founder of the management team at ARK and highly thought of.
One of the key issues is that Academies can dis-apply the National Curriculum and can therefore do what they want - including a 2 year KS3/3 year GCSEs.
As I said it's all rather fun for the detached observer - especially one who said years ago that letting academies do what they want might lead to problems.
After having done the weekly shopping, I settled down to watch...it raining in SA.
Anyway, this is rather fun - a row between academy trusts and Ofsted with Dfe not knowing which side to back.
In the Battle of Ofsted, ministers are in the crossfire
https://www.tes.com/news/battle-ofsted- ... -crossfire
The best bit is probably that Inspiration was founded by Lord Agnew...who is now a Minister at the DfE.They are stuck between a rock and a hard place over the decision by three of Academy Land's biggest hitters to attack Ofsted over its new inspection framework.
Sir Dan Moynihan and Martyn Oliver, CEOs of Harris and Outward Grange respectively, hit the headlines at the end of last week when they took Ofsted to task for downgrading schools that chose to give their students a three-year key stage 4 as preparation for GCSE, rather than the more traditional two.
Soon backed up by Dame Rachel de Souza, CEO of the Inspiration Trust, they argued that the inspectorate’s approach, driven by its boss, Amanda Spielman, to try to inspect curriculum rather than data, and to punish gaming and teaching to the test, had missed the mark and was unfairly damaging schools that had the most success with students from the poorest homes.
But Amanda Spielman was founder of the management team at ARK and highly thought of.
One of the key issues is that Academies can dis-apply the National Curriculum and can therefore do what they want - including a 2 year KS3/3 year GCSEs.
As I said it's all rather fun for the detached observer - especially one who said years ago that letting academies do what they want might lead to problems.
If I'm not here, then I'll be in the library. Or the other library.
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Thornberry apparently did well, but none of them bombed.
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Good evening, everyone.
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Any late night news?
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That snivelling piece by Toby Helm today - dreadful even by his usual standards.
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the chuntering of lickspittlesAnatolyKasparov wrote:That snivelling piece by Toby Helm today - dreadful even by his usual standards.
the Age of Snivellers
the time of snivellers
the Sniveller Period
'more sniveller than sniveller '
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Good afternoon, everyone.
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Jeremy Gilbert has produced the sixth and final instalment of his post-election magnum opus - just as much worth reading as all the others.
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I was looking over illustrative floor plans and estimated square footage of various UK dwellingsAnatolyKasparov wrote:Any late night news?
dysfunctional space usage
absurdly vast, opulent halls, reception and bathrooms of multi-million pound manors
tiny, constricted, cubicles for somewhat less money
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AgreedAnatolyKasparov wrote:Jeremy Gilbert has produced the sixth and final instalment of his post-election magnum opus - just as much worth reading as all the others.
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Early night for me, everyone.
Goodnight.
love,
cJA
Goodnight.
love,
cJA
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Course it was 'Ed
Course it was 'Ed
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LibDems gonna LibDem.
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I have absolutely no recollection of this person.Lord Maclennan of Rogart obituary
Last leader of the SDP who oversaw its merger with the Liberal party in the late 1980s
(Guardian)
And the LibDem woman who led the party but who lost her seat at the General Election was Jo ?. I've honestly forgotten her surname.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... t-obituary
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Coburn? Swinburne? She did a lot of arm movements, I know that.
I could "Google" it, but I can't be bothered. It'll probably come to me eventually.
I could "Google" it, but I can't be bothered. It'll probably come to me eventually.
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I'm making a nomination for headline of the year, despite the date.
Labour leadership: Jess Phillips vows to stop acting 'statesmanlike'
Labour leadership: Jess Phillips vows to stop acting 'statesmanlike'
I still believe in a town called Hope
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Fucking 508 bus from Halifax drove straight past me again so I had to go into the nearest pub, order a taxi to Bradford interchange then pretend I was immensely pissed to get on to the train to Leeds for free.
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Cost me 12 quid.
Which I could have spent on local sausages or nonsense from China.
Which I could have spent on local sausages or nonsense from China.
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My local butcher has pheasants and partridges, and I ask them do you know where these birds come from and how have they ended up in your freezer.
The answer is money.
The answer is money.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -contractsRicher Sounds founder bankrolls push to end zero-hours contracts
The millionaire businessman Julian Richer is bankrolling a campaign that aims to stamp out the use of controversial zero-hours contracts in Britain.
Zero Hours Justice, which launches today, plans to hold free legal advice clinics around the country for zero-hours workers to identify people whose experiences in the workplace could provide the basis for legal action that could help to change the law. (Guardian)
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HindleA wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... king-truth
It'll be the wrong choice, according to the Observer, whoever they choose.
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I've remembered - Jo Swinson. Can I forget again now?