Adrian Lyons
@adrianlyons.bsky.social
Former HMI (16 years) and current education consultant. Editor of Teaching Business & Economics. Salvation Army music leader.
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'The danger is not that schools are being judged harshly, but that judgments are becoming harder to interpret, harder to trust and harder to learn from. Clarity matters. Without it, even positive reports leave more questions than answers'
schoolsweek.co.uk/our-game-of-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/our-game-of-...
Our game of guess the grade was more baffling than we hoped
How do pupils 'thrive' in a school where curriculum and teaching aren’t rated as ‘strong’?
schoolsweek.co.uk
January 20, 2026 at 11:48 AM
'The danger is not that schools are being judged harshly, but that judgments are becoming harder to interpret, harder to trust and harder to learn from. Clarity matters. Without it, even positive reports leave more questions than answers'
schoolsweek.co.uk/our-game-of-...
schoolsweek.co.uk/our-game-of-...
My comment piece in today’s edition of Schools Week
January 16, 2026 at 3:01 PM
My comment piece in today’s edition of Schools Week
The excellent @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social writes that ‘The danger for Reform is that it looks more and more like a refugee camp for discredited Conservatives than it does the insurgent force for change that it claims to be.’. Makes
sense as a refugee from the Con Party is essentially Nigel Farage
sense as a refugee from the Con Party is essentially Nigel Farage
January 16, 2026 at 2:38 PM
The excellent @andrewrawnsley.bsky.social writes that ‘The danger for Reform is that it looks more and more like a refugee camp for discredited Conservatives than it does the insurgent force for change that it claims to be.’. Makes
sense as a refugee from the Con Party is essentially Nigel Farage
sense as a refugee from the Con Party is essentially Nigel Farage
This really is horrendous
Is the government going to sit and watch while the #PalestineAction hunger strikers die? Is most of the media going to carry on ignoring them? Just how callous has the Establishment become?
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Justice secretary urged to ‘show a bit of humanity’ with protesters severely ill after refusing food for weeks
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
This really is horrendous
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Starmer needs to find the courage to follow his arguments about the failures and costs of Brexit to their logical conclusion. His recent foreign policy speech fell short by continuing to gloss over hard truths, and pretend Britain can keep muddling through.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Starmer needs to find the courage to follow his arguments about the failures and costs of Brexit to their logical conclusion. His recent foreign policy speech fell short by continuing to gloss over hard truths, and pretend Britain can keep muddling through.
Please @lisanandymp.bsky.social can you identify for me when anybody voted to leave the Customs Union? EU yes (marginally) but single market or customs union was never on a ballot and in fact Brexiteers suggest we would remain in those institutions. If just 2% had been swayed by this misinformation…
December 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Please @lisanandymp.bsky.social can you identify for me when anybody voted to leave the Customs Union? EU yes (marginally) but single market or customs union was never on a ballot and in fact Brexiteers suggest we would remain in those institutions. If just 2% had been swayed by this misinformation…
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Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Donald Trump is taking money away from our hospitals & GP surgeries, and Nigel Farage is cheering him on.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
We can't let Trump get away with extortion like this, Parliament must be given a chance to vote this deal down.
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The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault.
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
December 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The OBR is run independently from Government. It literally was somebody else's fault.
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
You'd think Kemi Badenoch would know that given her own party created it in Government, but apparently not
I love @classicfm.com and I love Christmas carols, but on Thursday afternoon I had to turn off ‘White Christmas’ and this afternoon I had to turn off ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ - it’s one of my favourites, but NOT in November - please, no, no, No!
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I love @classicfm.com and I love Christmas carols, but on Thursday afternoon I had to turn off ‘White Christmas’ and this afternoon I had to turn off ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’ - it’s one of my favourites, but NOT in November - please, no, no, No!
Less than a minute into the budget and Rachel Reaves uses that disgusting phrase ‘brightest and best’. Presumably these are not the people who keep our health service and social care going. These are the people to who I am grateful
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Less than a minute into the budget and Rachel Reaves uses that disgusting phrase ‘brightest and best’. Presumably these are not the people who keep our health service and social care going. These are the people to who I am grateful
You have to feel sorry for all those MPs who can’t believe their luck to be called in what is normally a PMQs with a huge audience watching BBC 2 for the budget only to find that BBC2 abandoned PMQs immediately after the LOTO’s questions to discuss the budget which has not yet happened.
November 26, 2025 at 12:28 PM
You have to feel sorry for all those MPs who can’t believe their luck to be called in what is normally a PMQs with a huge audience watching BBC 2 for the budget only to find that BBC2 abandoned PMQs immediately after the LOTO’s questions to discuss the budget which has not yet happened.
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Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Who remembers that Brexit campaign slogan from 2016? 🤔
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Back our campaign to fix our trade with Europe:
www.libdems.org.uk/trade
www.libdems.org.uk/trade
Fix Britain's Trade
Liberal Democrats want to turbocharge our economy by forming a Customs Union with the EU, tearing down the trade barriers and red tape holding us back.
www.libdems.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Back our campaign to fix our trade with Europe:
www.libdems.org.uk/trade
www.libdems.org.uk/trade
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Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
November 21, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Nathan Gill has been sentenced to 10.5 years for endangering national security and taking Russian bribes.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
Nigel Farage and Reform are a danger to national security, the Liberal Democrats will continue to hold them to account and defend our democracy.
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It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Cryptocurrency backed by Farage donor is used for Russian war effort, investigators say
Tether tokens found to facilitate scheme that enables sanctions evasion and launders money for the Kremlin
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:47 AM
It's always the ones you most expect...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n.... This is weird. Maybe, just maybe some anti- loony right bias got through but this is surely insignificant compared to the worship of of the right by episodes of Kuenssberg and Question Time which only occasionally fail to feature a Reform panel member'.
Tim Davie resigns as BBC director general after accusations of ‘serious and systemic’ bias in coverage
Davie tells staff departure was ‘my own decision’ but it comes with the BBC preparing to apologise for the way it edited a Trump speech
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n.... This is weird. Maybe, just maybe some anti- loony right bias got through but this is surely insignificant compared to the worship of of the right by episodes of Kuenssberg and Question Time which only occasionally fail to feature a Reform panel member'.
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What do five former HMI think of Ofsted's new school inspection framework? This chat reveals some positives but quite a few negatives. With the launch tomorrow, we hope it proves helpful for schools and inspectors. Let us know what you think. youtu.be/ZTV5dK13UpM
Five former HMI discuss the new Ofsted school inspection framework
YouTube video by Frank and Stan Chat
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 1:09 PM
What do five former HMI think of Ofsted's new school inspection framework? This chat reveals some positives but quite a few negatives. With the launch tomorrow, we hope it proves helpful for schools and inspectors. Let us know what you think. youtu.be/ZTV5dK13UpM
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🚨 Brexit was sold on sovereignty.
No one said 1,500 people a year would die.
Time to rejoin.
#Rejoin #BrexitReality #NHS
No one said 1,500 people a year would die.
Time to rejoin.
#Rejoin #BrexitReality #NHS
November 3, 2025 at 5:45 AM
🚨 Brexit was sold on sovereignty.
No one said 1,500 people a year would die.
Time to rejoin.
#Rejoin #BrexitReality #NHS
No one said 1,500 people a year would die.
Time to rejoin.
#Rejoin #BrexitReality #NHS
This is brilliant!
November 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
This is brilliant!
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Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
October 31, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.
Always cuts through the crap.
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The Chancellor is blaming Brexit for the mess we're in but not making the changes needed to fix it, can you really call that a strategy?
October 28, 2025 at 1:00 PM
The Chancellor is blaming Brexit for the mess we're in but not making the changes needed to fix it, can you really call that a strategy?
political pressure to deal with illegal migration across the Channel is real. But a policy of redefining millions of people’s neighbours, friends and family as illegal migrants … should disqualify the party proposing it from debate in a civilised democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on Conservative immigration policy: the threat of mass expulsions is abhorrent | Editorial
Editorial: Tory plans to revoke indefinite leave to remain in pursuit of greater ‘cultural coherence’ resemble the most extreme ambitions of far-right fringe parties
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
political pressure to deal with illegal migration across the Channel is real. But a policy of redefining millions of people’s neighbours, friends and family as illegal migrants … should disqualify the party proposing it from debate in a civilised democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Adrian Gray askes an important question about self evaluation in the proposed Ofsted Framework. Self Evaluation: A case of the Hokey Cokey?https://thealternativebiglisten.co.uk/f/self-evaluation-a-case-of-the-hokey-cokey
October 20, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Adrian Gray askes an important question about self evaluation in the proposed Ofsted Framework. Self Evaluation: A case of the Hokey Cokey?https://thealternativebiglisten.co.uk/f/self-evaluation-a-case-of-the-hokey-cokey