Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse.
So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries.
It’s your turn.
I’ve spent *ages* over the years trying to get the whole feedback sheet thing right for English Language, so here’s my latest iteration for P2... www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/english... The link to the paper it’s based on is also included 📰
💡 Birth month always needs to be a consideration:
- Summer born children are more likely to be recorded as having SEND
- September born children 30% more likely to go to an elite university
- More progress in P8 scores for summer born children
…& more
ffteducationdatalab.org.uk/2022/11/the-...
The UK’s cheapest Council Tax is in Wandsorth, London, where a band D property will pay approximately £969 a year. The next cheapest is in Westminster at £975.
After that it is Shetland Isles at £1,261.
Nottingham is £2,530
Council Tax is a tax for the poorest.
Reform’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice ‘failed to pay £91k in tax’ according to Sunday Times.
He says ‘overall HMRC received the correct amount of tax due’
Roll up! Roll up! A fantastic crypto investment opportunity has arisen! All you have to do is put your faith (and money!) in the man who screwed the country and made everyone worse off with Brexit and the man who tanked the economy and trebled everyone’s mortgage with his budget.
On the day Farage launches the Refukkers' Council election campaign...
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A couple of bits that might be helpful for English Language exam prep:
10 x Paper 1⃣ Q5 tasks
10 x Paper 2⃣ Q5 tasks
www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/10-x-en... 📖
www.douglaswise.co.uk/blog/10-engl... 📰
My new book ‘Literacy Essentials for Every Teacher’ is published 3 weeks today.
You can pre-order from @routledgebooks.bsky.social now with a 20% discount!
www.routledge.com/Literacy-Ess...
Farage saying don't deny visas due to speech
Farage minion wanting to deny visas to whole countries based on speech of their government he disagrees with
Free speech news
It's our patriotic duty to write articles in the Daily Mail in return for the £2.3million we have taken from peoole with links to fossil fuels and climate change denial.
What's not to like?
I found 20 quid outside the supermarket and I felt a little bit guilty as I picked it up, so because it’s Good Friday I thought to myself, “What would Jesus do?”.
So I turned it into wine...
Doesn't pay any tax in the UK because he ran away to the Tax Haven Singapore to escape the effects of the Brexit he helped create.
Then he bought up hundred of millions of pounds of farmland to avoid tax, then cried when it was made taxable.
James Dyson is a scumbag.
3 books becomes 4! It’s been a long time coming but the new Ready to Teach on ‘An Inspector Calls’ is finally here! Congratulations to @hugheshaili.bsky.social and @miriamhussain.bsky.social on a wonderful addition to the series! @teachals.bsky.social @hlearningpd.bsky.social
NEW RESOURCE: I’ve been experimenting with @xris32.bsky.social style ‘phrase banks’ over the past term to much success! Here are the AIC ones I’ve used. Great discussions had over what each phrase means and how we can use them appropriately in our writing. Use/chuck: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ptem7...
Jamacian artist Ebony G Patterson creates mixed media atworks including jacquard-weave tapestry to tell the untold stories of her homeland in her mixed media artworks #Womensart
Monochrome photograph featuring the head and shoulders of a Black woman facing forwards with hands clasped together by her face, wearing a black top and patterned hat
“Each time a woman stands up for herself.... she stands up for all women.”
- Maya Angelou #WomensArt
We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴☠️
Killed Woman support Joanne Early’s petition for Charlie’s Law, to ‘Automatically suspend parental responsibility when a parent is convicted of child murder/serious harm’
Link to the petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
#CharliesLaw
Monarchy and the Church have always been in it together, ever since Christianity was designated the state religion of the Roman Empire. Emperors knew how powerful the idea of “one god up there, one king down here” was.
We call ourselves "intelligent," yet the humblest fungus can decompose waste and build soil, a tree can harness solar energy, and a wetland can purify water—all without toxic byproducts. True intelligence is learning from these systems, not bulldozing them.
Ah yes, Norway - the country that didn't sell off their oil and gas for a quick buck in the 80s and now continue to benefit from profits, dividends and taxes, generating a wealth fund worth over £200k for every citizen.
Layla Coe, CEO of Killed Women, was in Parliament today when Jess Phillips read the names of the women known to have been killed by men over the past year: "We urge those in power to ... deliver the systemic change needed to end violence against women and girls."
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Reform councillor Graham Eardley has been suspended for behaving so aggressively towards a female volunteer that security had to escort him out. That’s at least 63 Reform councillors gone in ten months – nearly one in ten!
Parliament is to debate whether all suicides in cases involving victims of domestic abuse should be investigated as homicide.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
For World Book Day we are dressed as someone who read the book before the TV show got popular and are spending the day saying “well actually in the book” until we are forcibly removed from the office.
As co-chair of the Speech, Language and Communication Alliance, here's our quick response to the schools white paper.
In particular we are emphasising early identification and empowering and training teachers.
speechandlanguage.org.uk/about-us/new...
‘I’ve been swept up by the autism spectrum idea, and it’s only in the past 10 years that I have felt things have gone too far. Very slowly, I have come to say, “No, this is not right”’: Autism expert professor Uta Frith talks to @helen-amass.bsky.social
