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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 10d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · 10d

Yep. It's the busiest market I've ever seen. Only really bearable as soon as it opens...

DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · 10d

Well I say cat. Meant cats. Three possible suspects but I'm pretty sure I know who is the culprit

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · 10d

Cat has irritating and slightly dangerous habit of clawing at my face for attention when I am asleep.

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · 10d

All good apart from random A&E visit this morning as 111 insisted and wouldn't do minor injuries. Infected eyelid. Probably from my cat. Fun times.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 11d

perfect

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Birthday old man.

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Alastair Campbell @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social · 16d

German media seems to be taking more seriously than ours the fact a leading light in the party UK press keeps saying will be next government took bribes from Russia to spout their lies. Maybe it’s because they put NEWS ahead of propaganda

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Sep 9

Could we please stop pretending that the flags being hung from streetlamps or painted on roundabouts are innocent expressions of patriotic pride? This is the far right marking out its territory. It uses these flags to intimidate its traditional victims and opponents. 🧵1/3

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Sep 8

This feels like the biggest story from the Guardian's Boris leaks... he took £240k from a Venezuelan hedge fund after meeting Maduro. And having denied he was paid.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Boris Johnson was paid £240,000 after Maduro meeting, invoice shows

Johnson’s office sent invoice to hedge fund manager, which was paid, weeks after meeting Venezuelan leader last year

www.theguardian.com

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Everybody in education needs to read this. Fascinating insight and data exploring reported reasons for home-schooling in the UK by @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social

Katie Finlayson @learnwhatyoulive.bsky.social · Sep 8

Text and slides from my ResearchEd talk.

open.substack.com/pub/learnwha...

Are SEND needs driving an increase in children being home educated?

My talk from ResearchEd National 2025

open.substack.com

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · Sep 8

This is fascinating. Backs up what I have experienced anecdotally both as a teacher and as a parent (of an ASD child with post-covid medical issues that caused significant absence and difficulties). We need to look at how we can better support students with mental health and SEN.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · Sep 6

What utter dickheads we are…

Rayner fought for workers: sick pay, maternity rights, protection from unfair dismissal

Farage and his MPs voted it down

Rayner gets binned over £40k in stamp duty

Farage dodges £44k, shrugs & strolls on

The mega wealthy win again.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · Sep 5

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell.

Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass.

That, right there, is the problem.

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · Sep 5

On the same day in the Telegraph:

The Telegraph

Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement

Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty

Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence

[Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday]

Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent

29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph

Money > Property > Second homes

How to avoid tax on your second home

From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net

[Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto]

Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer

29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

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Caroline Lucas @carolinelucas.bsky.social · Sep 5

Right wing media has had it in for Angela Rayner from the start - they couldn’t bear a working class woman being so powerful & dynamic. She made a mistake and has paid heavily for it. Very much hope she’ll return at some point in the future - our politics desperately needs more voices like hers

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peripeteia press @neilbowen3.bsky.social · Aug 27

'Hamnet' film trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2xt...

HAMNET - Official Teaser Trailer [HD] - Only in Theaters Thanksgiving

YouTube video by Focus Features

www.youtube.com

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Barbara Bleiman @barbarableiman.bsky.social · Aug 27

Debra Myhill as always is superb here on writing and the teaching of writing! Her critique of the DfE Writing Framework is absolutely spot on, including its very poor use of research on writing. @beckyfrancis.bsky.social

Jon Severs @jonsevers.bsky.social · Aug 27

"There is a sense of cherry picking - of choosing research that already supports the way they want to present the framework"

Primary writing expert prof Debra Myhill tells @tesmagazine.bsky.social why the DfE primary writing framework is 'problematic'
www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

What the writing framework gets wrong about writing

Following the release of the DfE’s primary writing framework, writing researcher Debra Myhill shares her thoughts on its use of evidence and how it positions the skills involved in learning to write

www.tes.com

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · Aug 26

This is awful

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · Aug 25

Not sure what's going to give up first: knees, lungs or heart. Hiking after long Covid is a little humbling. But survived another hill walk and now doing a slow wander around Raglan Castle

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Matt Lynch @matt-lynch.bsky.social · Aug 25

NEW* for June 2026 onwards: AQA Lang P1 specimen papers and accompanying PPT slide decks. I’ll add to this folder as I update them. Includes:

✅ Enduring Love
✅ Hound of the Baskervilles
✅ Whole Town’s Sleeping
✅To Kill a Mockingbird

Help yourself 😊

www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/bd6qg...

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · Aug 24

Mini hike up the Skirrid in Monmouthshire. Need to do this more often.

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · Aug 23

Dunkeld is so lovely. Make sure you do the Hermitage Walk (gentle walk) and Birnam Wood walk is also great (more of an incline). If time, drive up to Killiecrankie. Such a beautiful part of the world.

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DDunc @ddunc.bsky.social · Aug 17

All the very best of luck. Hope all turns out ok.

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English and Media Centre @engmediacentre.bsky.social · Aug 17

Nice piece by George Orwell’s son about the history of Animal Farm www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

‘Animal Farm was my parents’ teamwork’: Orwell’s son on 80 years of the satirical classic

Richard Blair on the role his mother played in developing the 1945 political fable – and how it nearly didn’t get published

www.theguardian.com

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