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Prof Mark Priestley
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Education Professor, Stirling Centre for Research into Curriculum Making, University of Stirling. Mountain and prog rock enthusiast. European. Blog at http://mrpriestley.wordpress.com
Publications at https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/255862 .. more

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · Jul 28
Now available for preorder

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/teacher-a...

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Amra Watson @amrawatson.bsky.social · 3h
When your past finally catches up, what do you do? What do you do?

When the record shows you voted against every measure meant to help working people—what do you do? What do you do?

When stories about your ties to Russia won’t disappear, what do you do? What do you do?🤨👇

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Mark Ruskell @markruskell.bsky.social · 3h
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I am delighted that my colleagues across the Parliament supported my amendment to ensure that no government can run roughshod over our nature protections. This is a win for nature.

This bill
www.thenational.scot/news/2565367...
Blow to SNP as MSPs vote to remove entire section from flagship nature bill
THE SNP Government has been dealt a major blow after MSPs voted to remove an entire section from its flagship nature bill ...
www.thenational.scot

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 4h
Black Friday is a scam
nuthmani.bsky.social Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 4h
It's #BlackFriday 🎉🎉
But
Beware.... 'Which' the consumer experts found in a study that over 80% of black Friday deals were the same price or actually cheaper all year round. Mostly it is a scam. The best way to save money is to ignore it! 😀
a man with a beard is talking to another man and says i warned you
ALT: a man with a beard is talking to another man and says i warned you
media.tenor.com

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 4h
Checks date - nope, not 1 April
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h
Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch

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Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · 4h
Parent allegations against teachers have risen by a third in just one year, according to data shared exclusively with @tesmagazine.bsky.social

Story from @cerysturner.bsky.social

www.tes.com/magazine/new...
Parent allegations against teachers rise by a third
Research showing an increase in allegations highlights a ‘fraying of relationships’ between families and schools, warns parents’ charity
www.tes.com

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Nuzhat Uthmani @nuthmani.bsky.social · 4h
It's #BlackFriday 🎉🎉
But
Beware.... 'Which' the consumer experts found in a study that over 80% of black Friday deals were the same price or actually cheaper all year round. Mostly it is a scam. The best way to save money is to ignore it! 😀
a man with a beard is talking to another man and says i warned you
ALT: a man with a beard is talking to another man and says i warned you
media.tenor.com

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 16h
The UK, where the day after a decision to take half a million children out of poverty, the media & political world has been full of sneering at those same children & their families, labelling them as ‘Benefits Street’, while the same people are moaning about a tax on £2m mansions. Shameful stuff.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 16h
Never let it be said that the British press is out of touch

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RedStateBlues @coolsprings.bsky.social · 20h
This smells like outright collusion with Russia to me. Trump shrugs it off as what a dealmaker does: sell the plan to Ukraine, sell the plan to Russia. He says “we must end this war” and thinks he deserves the Nobel Prize??? Not if it's at the cost of Ukraine’s sovereignty.

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Barry Howard 🔶 @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 1d
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The petition: ‘Call a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy’ has now passed 70,000 signatures.
Let’s get it to over 100,O00 by the weekend!
Please sign and share widely.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 1d
It might help to remember, Chancellor, that there's always someone worse off than you.

(With thanks to @mortenmorland.bsky.social) for allowing us to use some of his brilliant toons in "The British General Election of 2024")
Kwasi Kwarteng pulling a decapitated rabbit out of his Budget magician's hat in 2022).

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Thomas Benner @thomasbenner.bsky.social · 1d
When America Has Your Back
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Cartoon by Kevin KAL Kallaugher

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 1d
🤣😂🤣😂🤣
privateeyenews.bsky.social Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d
‘The clip, which appeared on live television, shows the President of the United States snapping at a female reporter “Quiet, Piggy!”’

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.bsky.social · 1d
"Across Finland, 43 daycare centres have been awarded a total of €1m (£830,000) to rewild yards and to increase children’s exposure to the microscopic biodiversity – such as bacteria and fungi – that lives in nature."

I was in a nature preschool.

#Biodiversity

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How a radical experiment to bring a forest into a preschool transformed children’s health
In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing
www.theguardian.com

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 1d
You just cannot take the iPaper seriously when it wheels out Kwasi ‘mini budget’ Kwarteng to comment on the budget.
We don’t *ever* want to hear from this arrogant clown again.
“No prudence”
FML.
PERSONAL FINANCE No prudence: it just got harder to retire if you're in your forties or fifties Kwasi Kwarteng The inside story of the mini-budget disaster Photo of Kwarteng and Truss Faisal Islam > Economics editor @faisalislam › 25 September 2023 The term "mini budget" will be forever toxic in British politics. So disastrous was then-Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng's September 2022 statement - which included £45bn of unfunded tax cuts - that its long shadow still stretches over our economics and politics.

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Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 1d
‘The clip, which appeared on live television, shows the President of the United States snapping at a female reporter “Quiet, Piggy!”’

From the new Private Eye, out now.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d
The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

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Hazel Pinner @hazelmpinner.bsky.social · 1d
@educatorsforpeace.bsky.social a great session tonight, thank you @markrpriestley.bsky.social and @jazzawi.bsky.social @nuthmani.bsky.social - sorry for leaving just as you were saying hi Nuzhat 🫣 my voice is on its last legs 🤧

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 1d
@scrcm.bsky.social is delighted to welcome colleagues from the University of Glasgow to talk about their Camau i’r Dyfodol (Steps to the Future) curriculum and assessment project. Sign up now for this free webinar on Wednesday 18 February 2026, 4:00-5:30pm
www.tickettailor.com/events/facul...
Select tickets – Curriculum making in Wales: what does it mean to be purpose-led? – MS Teams
Curriculum making in Wales: what does it mean to be purpose-led? – MS Teams, Wed 18 Feb 2026 - Abstract Several countries are engaged in processes of curriculum reform which increasingly position the ...
www.tickettailor.com

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Kaja Kallas @kajakallas.bsky.social · 1d
We still need to get from a situation where Russia pretends to negotiate to a situation where they need to negotiate.

Extract from my press remarks following today’s informal Foreign Affairs Council ↓

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 2d
🔥 Highly recommended that you all sign and share.

Link to the petition—> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d
Yes, all good, although retirement seems a good option in the current insanity of HE

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely disgraceful.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump envoy Witkoff reportedly advised Kremlin official on Ukraine peace deal
Steve Witkoff spoke to Yuri Ushakov on territorial control and suggested congratulating Donald Trump and framing talks more optimistically, audio recording suggests
www.theguardian.com

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · 2d
It's 2029, and a Reform government has sworn in its first batch of politically appointed judges. Suddenly, the Labour Party remembers why jury trials mattered.

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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 2d
Farage is refusing any investigation into links between Reform UK and Russia.

Gosh, I wonder why? It's a mystery.

www.thenational.scot/news/2564728...
Nigel Farage rules out any investigation into Reform UK links with Russia
REFORM UK leader Nigel Farage said he will not investigate any Russian links within his party, stating that he is “not a police force” ...
www.thenational.scot

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d
Let’s hope so, but hardly a trend on this evidence
markpackuk.bsky.social Mark Pack @markpackuk.bsky.social · 2d
Change in Reform rating between latest and previous poll from each pollster in recent polls:

YouGov -2
Opinium -1
Find Out Now -1
Focaldata -2
More in Common -1
Lord Ashcroft -3
Freshwater -3
JL Partners -1
Ipsos -1

This is starting to look like a trend...

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d
That’s Nige for you. Charlatans and frauds tend to be dishonest
fucktheracists.bsky.social Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 2d
Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate.

Former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being "fundamentally dishonest"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk

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Prof Mark Priestley @markrpriestley.bsky.social · 2d
It has a rawer edge to it than Floyd, I think. The guitarist, Bjorn Riis, has produced some fine solo albums too. How are you? I saw you across a crowded room at the BERA AGM last year.

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 2d
🚨WOW! The Petition calling for a public inquiry into Russian influence on UK politics & democracy has now rocketed past 47,000 signatures! Let’s get it to 50,000 tonight. If a petition is what it’s going to take let’s get this done!

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...

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Paul @fucktheracists.bsky.social · 2d
Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate.

Former classmate of Nigel Farage has told the BBC the Reform UK leader is being "fundamentally dishonest"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Nigel Farage's racism denials are dishonest, says ex-classmate
Peter Ettedgui tells the BBC Nigel Farage targeted antisemitic abuse at him when they were teenagers.
www.bbc.co.uk