We received a Deform Uk election leaflet today. Thankfully there was an alternative to the recycle bin

Not clear. Their seems to be an understanding that these are needed but no plan or resources to develop them. I hope I am wrong on the latter

I see that the fascist Israeli state has murdered another journalist. #WarCrimes

The new technical framework should hopefully dispense altogether with levels

Congratulations to the narcissist dickheads hogging the limelight

The Texas legislature rammed through a gerrymandering bill at the request of Trump.

Virginia actually voted in favor of redistricting to counterbalance what Texas and other Republican-controlled states have done.

Yet only one is considered a "power grab."

Oligarch-owned media in a nutshell.

Very nice. He has hidden talents, in addition to the very obvious ones 😍

The benchmarks were a nonsense - a poor solution to a problem either the basic design of CfE

Still time to sign up

Add to this the consolidation of vet practices into chains owned by private equity and the steep rise in fees. Scam is the right word

Remember when Richard Tice and Isabel Oakeshott said Angela Rayner should resign over a £40K stamp duty underpayment — because “integrity and moral decency” made it “morally indefensible”?

Their spectacular U-turn suggests only one thing: their principles were never priceless — just priced.

The new framework should set out big ideas and associated concepts that need to be learned - underpinned by ideas about progression. A more coherent approach than a mishmash of vague learning outcomes that can be interpreted in so many ways

CfE was suppose to ‘declutter’. As they say, the road to hell is paved with good intentions

5-14 was at least coherent - but its assessment driven methodology highly problematic. CfE has tried to ape this, without the coherence - and we see the consequences, e.g. curriculum narrowing in primary schools, spreadsheet approaches to curriculum making and disconnection for educational purposes

Unless the government commits to creating this meso infrastructure (e.g. teacher networks) and properly resources the building of curriculum leadership capacity (through targeted professional learning and adequate time), the new framework will suffer the same fate as its predecessor

A further issue relates to the system (meso) support that will be developed. Is some senses, the coherence of the the technical framework, while important for framing school curriculum making, is much less important than the supporting structures, processes and resources

As ever, the devil will be in the details. I agree that the new direction looks promising, but three dangers:
1. As you say, a drift back to the fuzzy skills-focused genericism of the Es&Os
2. Over-specification in the new framework
3. A failure to adequately define and conceptualise key concepts

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Tucker Carlson says he regrets backing Donald Trump and is ‘tormented’ The podcaster admits he ‘misled’ supporters as his rift with the US president deepens over the Iran war

No sympathy for these self-serving dickheads who change their minds after Trumps turns on them. It was always clear what he was like

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump is a laughing stock

Nigel Farage Has Personally Accepted £675,000 from Foreign Sources Reform UK leader Nigel Farage has accepted more than half a million pounds from foreign companies, governments, and donors while serving as an MP, DeSmog can reveal. Since July 2024, when he was elect...

“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”

It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...

Make it make sense.

Nominative determinism Alice’s and well in Deform UK

Be reasonable, man. He’s a stable genius with a high IQ. And you expect good grammar and fluent prose as well 🤪

Walz was right about his weirdness

He’s way below the bottom of the barrel

Not much political judgement going on here if Isabel Oakeshott does not realise that Farage & Tice are senior members of the British establishment. Relevant here is that Oakeshott is the partner of Richard Tice jumping to the defence of Tice & his tax evasion.

I'm always skeptical of BBC-bashing, but BBC News website hasn't reported on the Tice tax scandal since 12 April, when the headline was "Tice £91,000 tax row is 'minor administrative error', party claims".

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