Pam Jarvis

@drpam.bsky.social

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#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator. ‘On Time’ News and Fiction writing blog at:
https://ontimesorg.wordpress.com/

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · Oct 25

It’s 2033; climate change is progressing and world leaders are still arguing. 19 year old Dylan and his generation engage in angry, desperate, illegal protest. Their future looks grim… until a mysterious time traveller makes Dylan an intriguing offer. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Past time for eco: what net zero is, and why we need it

A novelist imagines a near-future world that fails to meet net zero, exploring climate collapse, loss and hope through future generations

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 9h

Yes. It is tinkering, as I say in this article. It won’t make the necessary difference.

Children’s wellbeing and schools bill 2025: here comes the sun?

After 14 years of mismanagement, Starmer’s government promises cautious reforms for children’s wellbeing – can it truly bring the light?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 16h

The key point, as I say in the article, (and this one) is to reverse then remove the corporatisation of state education. That could have started on day 1. (The same can be said of the privatisation of the NHS, social care and utilities). Attlee’s government set up the NHS from almost zero 1945-48.

Education MATters: exploring England’s state school industry

Conservatives claim the academisation of schools as one of their greatest achievements. But do the figures stack up?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 17h

That’s true but there’s no indication that any practical start has been made. & for the reasons you state, that means it’s not going to happen by 2034. We’ve an epidemic of junior mental health issues *now*. A decade is a generation’s passage through the education system 5-16. So when? 2040? 2045?

The sick youth of Europe: the UK’s mental health problem

Why so many young people are becoming mentally unfit for work and education, and what we need to do about it

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 17h

“All of these things –welfare rights, taxation, online regulation, state education, immigration – are crucially important for the wellbeing of the British people… I will admit to a growing concern that Starmer’s government is not up to the job. And the British public’s patience is wearing thin.”

Rearranging the furniture while the house is on fire: Starmer’s Britain 2025

Is Starmer’s Education Curriculum set to follow his government’s record of controversy and failure?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 17h

I don’t think Johnson was quite as bad as Gove because he just wanted to play at PM; he’s too vacuous to have any ideology whatsoever, he’ll just say/do what gets him there. Trump’s similar. That’s obviously careless endangerment. But the application of an extreme ideology is systematically sinister

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 19h

‘Article attached to the original *post*

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 19h

Yes, this is covered in the article attached to the original article. It’s clearly ideological and will have originated in the opinions that he expressed as a young man. His speech indicates his ideas (and later policies) are rooted in enculturation and subjugation.

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 1d

Rearranging the furniture while the house is on fire: Starmer’s Britain 2025

Is Starmer’s Education Curriculum set to follow his government’s record of controversy and failure?

By Dr Pam Jarvis
@drpam.bsky.social

Rearranging the furniture while the house is on fire: Starmer’s Britain 2025

Is Starmer’s Education Curriculum set to follow his government’s record of controversy and failure?

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

He probably still thinks he’s going to get away with it. After all, ‘Lord’ Gove said even worse as a university student *and* it was recorded it on tape. He then took his vile ideas through into the National Curriculum. How can anyone vote for them?

Educating ‘dirty northerners’ and ‘fettered foreigners’ in Gove’s curriculum of ‘hard facts’

Recordings of Gove making derogatory comments, raise questions about his values and the curriculum that he instilled in England’s schools

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Gallego to Hegseth: "You will never ever be half the man that Sen. Kelly is. You, sir, are a coward. And the fact that you are following this order from the president shows how big of a coward you are. I can't wait until you are no longer the secretary of defense."

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

Lots of interesting connections here, this is the one where he fantasises about genetically engineered intelligence. He’s a walking oxymoron, a deeply dull son of a very clever father, who was one of the architects of the British welfare state.

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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 1d

I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired.

If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

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Dark Fox @staunchatheist.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely said .. same shit here in usa..

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

It was years ago.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not in a hurtful way.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not with intent.

Did you ever racially abuse fellow pupils?

Not genuine abuse.

😮🫣😬😱 ~AA

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 1d

Toby Young, self-appointed king of free speech, is speaking in Hungary tomorrow about UK “censorship”.

He’ll be addressing a group funded by Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime, which has seized control of the country’s media, judiciary, and routinely harasses its critics

Toby Young to Address Orbán-Backed Group on UK ‘Censorship’

Conservative peer and right-wing commentator Toby Young is due to deliver a talk tomorrow (25 November) at the in-house think tank of Hungarian autocrat Viktor Orbán. Young is being interviewed by Mat...

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

‘Of course, it is in Farage’s interests to stop people from focusing on who is actually using the bulk of resources, because the greediest consumers are some of his funders and friends’

I endured an English public school. But that’s not the only reason I’m unsurprised about the Farage allegations | Musa Okwonga

Let’s put aside the schooldays accusations and look, instead, at the Reform leader’s path since then. I think a pretty clear picture of the man emerges, says author and podcaster Musa Okwonga

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Simona McKenzie @signoramac.bsky.social · 1d

It's time to change the system. MPs should not take advantage of it....starting with the Reform Leader. He did when an MEP and got away with it and does it now and no one bats an eyelid.

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- Nicola - 🌸🎀💕 @paneraiwearer.bsky.social · 1d

The same way they rest of them did.

It's time we stopped electing arseholes from Eton.

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lukewarm24.bsky.social @lukewarm24.bsky.social · 2d

LiarJohnson - the worst PM in uk history

Unchallenged

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LetteJ @lettej2205.bsky.social · 2d

When Johnson was leader, I used to say that if I wanted to see a comedian I would buy a theatre ticket. Give me boring any day in politics.

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Andyinafield @andyinafield.bsky.social · 2d

In a past life, I was involved in pandemic planning exercises. Not my/our lane, so we followed the lead of PH people.

I imagined certain things would happen. There was a plan. Nope.

Capacity had been gutted and then the poshboys tore up what little was left.

A catastrophe. Lucrative, though.

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Martin The Mess aka Big Brother @martinthemess.bsky.social · 2d

People were apparently fed up with boring politicians like Gordon Brown and wanted someone with a sense of humor. They figured the Yes-Minister bureaucrats would keep things working in the background like they always had, and the PM could be a fun distraction. That's the Royal Family's job, though.

a man in a suit and blue helmet is flying through the air while holding british flags

ALT: a man in a suit and blue helmet is flying through the air while holding british flags

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Yes. The mirror world Bee Gees of politics. ‘Nah, nah, nah, staying alive.’ Both knighted, for ruining the institutions they headed.

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Ceri Shields @cerishields.bsky.social · 2d

In the late 20-teens I had country squire type Tory neighbours who not only thought Boris Johnson was a laugh, they thought Jacob Rees-Mogg was a laugh too; jolly and a good egg.

It all depends what makes you laugh, I guess 🤪🤪🤪

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Looking back at the deadly lies told by Boris Johnson, Gavin Williamson and Nick Gibb (brother of Robbie). “A teacher told me privately…. “realistically, the idea of containing Covid-19 in a school makes as much sense as holding a fart in a colander” @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk