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Bill Wilkinson
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Science (former academic) | Teaching (>10years now) | Passionate about Cultural Capital (TGT author) | Springboard Science Author | new SENDCo | NPQSENDCo | Watford Bath City Arsenal | Politics | Rotund Running | Occasional Cats | 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Ally
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Wednesday's TGT celebrates a stunning piece of Georgian Industrial Heritage. The Pontcysyllte aqueduct is the tallest canal aqueduct in the world and the longest in the UK.
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November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Got it from a definition guess and available fodder. Didn’t understand why. Too clever for me.
Minute Cryptic - 26 November, 2025
"Run-down backpacker loses backpack" (5)
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November 26, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Here’s my CHRISTMAS GIFT TIP. You can buy all Michael Palin’s books and DVDs and suchlike off his website, and he signs and dedicates the item for no extra charge. Don’t say I don’t give you nowt. (I did this for my dad, and he didn’t notice the autograph on his Ripping Yarns.) themichaelpalin.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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The BBC's has responded in The Guardian that this was a routine editorial decision, but also that it was made on legal advice. Those two explanations don’t fit together. /1
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.

They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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‘The chill wind from the White House is already rippling through New Broadcasting House.’

@lewisgoodall.com reacts after the BBC edited out an anti-Trump line from a historian’s lecture.
November 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Fond memories of travelling over the Pontcysyllte aqueduct on our canal boat holiday this summer. Looking down from the boat is not for the faint hearted!
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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My wife wouldn't come on it, which is why we're so tiny in the photo!
November 25, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Wednesday's TGT celebrates a stunning piece of Georgian Industrial Heritage. The Pontcysyllte aqueduct is the tallest canal aqueduct in the world and the longest in the UK.
bit.ly/TutorGroupThink
November 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I'm so tired of people telling me to have students critique LLM outputs. I'm just going to print this on little cards and hand them out
I will add the following: our students lack the research skills required to audit an LLM essay for errors. They don’t arrive on campus with these skills; we teach it to them over four long years. So throwing freshmen in the deep end and saying “swim your way to a shore of rectitude” is folly.
November 24, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Science teachers say WTF?!
November 24, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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NEW There's no overstating how significant the Nathan Gill case is. On Friday, the close associate of Nigel Farage was jailed for over 10 years for taking bribes ultimately from a friend of Putin. It's a complex, detail-heavy story that raises questions about Farage’s claim Gill was ‘one bad apple’🧵
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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So someone asked him for an example of racism that isn't hurtful or insulting, right?
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

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November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The fun jovial group antisemitism, not the hurtful individual kind. Hope that clears things up.
“I would never ever do it in a hurtful or insulting way”

Nigel Farage responds to allegations of racist behaviour from when he was a teenager at school

@itvnewspolitics.bsky.social
November 24, 2025 at 6:31 PM
On TGT tomorrow, discuss artworks and statues in the context of the Monuments exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
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November 24, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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News coverage of DOGE’s creation earlier this year was practically wall-to-wall — for weeks. “$2 trillion in savings, $5000 dividend checks, an entirely new model of government.” And now that it’s gone, it’s like eh.

@techcrunch.com
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DOGE days are over as Trump disbands Elon Musk's team of federal cost-cutters | TechCrunch
DOGE members are reportedly worried that they could face prosecution for some of their activities conducted while under the leadership of Elon Musk.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:27 PM
That James & Ollie are too good.
Genius.

Minute Cryptic - 24 November, 2025
"Unlocking kindness, insight and humility, starts with reflection!?" (5)
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November 24, 2025 at 12:38 AM
It’s not set there, but it was filmed at my school.
November 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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NEW EPISODE

This week, we are joined by leadership maestro @mrarobbins.bsky.social, looking at the tensions and difficulties in leading schools and driving change. Not to be missed!

Tune in and share if you can 🙏🙏

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What's the key to unlocking teacher development? With Adam Robbins
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November 21, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
November 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Socials reminded me it’s 15 years since the day I bumped into Phil Jupitus in Spillers record store in Cardiff and did a record swap. Buying each other a recommended album.
November 23, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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A Cessna Citation II jet (reg N511AB) silhouetted against the Sunday morning Sun over the Space Coast of Florida.

The privately owned jet was flying from Cleveland Regional Jetport (QNZ) to Miami (TMB) at 29,800ft & 408kts.

(📷: me, flight data: @flightradar24.com)
November 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
It's classic literature on TGT on Monday as we remember Emily Brontë on the anniversary of the publication of Wuthering Heights, her first and only novel in 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell.
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November 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Whilst I love all the new solo stuff it makes me so happy to see the old Remainiacs team in one place. 😍
Got the band back together at mine and Paul’s surprise wedding reception. I love these people so much 🥰

@sturdyalex.bsky.social @rostaylor.bsky.social @dorianlynskey.bsky.social @iandunt.bsky.social and Ingrid Oliver
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Boston's Mayor Wu playing with Yo-Yo Ma at Symphony Hall
November 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Who’d have thunk that once everyone who wants an iPhone has one, sales might slow down a bit?
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM