Andy Clark
@ajcclark.bsky.social
Retired English teacher and dilettante groundhopper, music fan and knee-hampered walker
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Are we ‘dumbing down’ teaching? Sam Gibbs argues that if we want critically engaged young people, then we need to divert from our current path and put intellectualism at the heart of our profession
How we dumbed down teaching - and what we must do to fix it
Over the past decade, teaching has been pushed towards a prescriptive model that reduces intellectual curiosity and overlooks essential classroom engagement, argues Sam Gibbs
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July 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Are we ‘dumbing down’ teaching? Sam Gibbs argues that if we want critically engaged young people, then we need to divert from our current path and put intellectualism at the heart of our profession
Read this article and realise that Trump hasn’t done anything yet…
Remember that on April 20th Donald Trump receives his fake "report" from Hegseth and Gabbard on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act over immigration and terrorism, which fait accompli could put us under martial law by May, at which point Trump would expand his new slave trade significantly
Will Trump Invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807 Next?
Allow me to invite you down this rabbit hole of stupidity.
www.thebulwark.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Read this article and realise that Trump hasn’t done anything yet…
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"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."
Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type.
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The evil at your door
The deportation action as regime change
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March 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."
Fascism is back, folks…
NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law.
No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.
March 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Fascism is back, folks…
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Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
March 4, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
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No need for subtlety here.
February 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
No need for subtlety here.
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The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.
February 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.
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Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name
February 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Free speech "is in retreat" in Britain, says JD Vance, who is part of a Government which is now targeting critical news organisations with politically-motivated investigations, while banning others from the White House for the crime of referring to the Gulf of Mexico by its actual name
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0.43% increase in UK GDP by 2050 if a third runway is opened at Heathrow.
12% fall in world GDP for every 1C rise in global temperature.
12% fall in world GDP for every 1C rise in global temperature.
February 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
0.43% increase in UK GDP by 2050 if a third runway is opened at Heathrow.
12% fall in world GDP for every 1C rise in global temperature.
12% fall in world GDP for every 1C rise in global temperature.
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Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
February 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Imagine you were the richest man in the world. You could have anything you wanted, go anywhere you wished, do whatever took you fancy. How would you spend your weekend? Depriving the poorest people in the world of food and healthcare and boasting about it?
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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For more than ten years I’ve kept loose batteries in a metal tin, and yesterday evening I opened it and two of them were red hot, and I thought oh dear, that’s not good, and I looked up whether you should keep batteries in a metal tin, and let’s say I’m glad that I’m not long dead in a house fire.
January 26, 2025 at 7:23 AM
For more than ten years I’ve kept loose batteries in a metal tin, and yesterday evening I opened it and two of them were red hot, and I thought oh dear, that’s not good, and I looked up whether you should keep batteries in a metal tin, and let’s say I’m glad that I’m not long dead in a house fire.
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Man Dies After Secret 4-Year Battle With Gorilla
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January 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Man Dies After Secret 4-Year Battle With Gorilla
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Terrific article by @docrussjackson.bsky.social analysing Farage's rhetorical tactics on Question Time. Labour need to counter the rhetoric of the right on immigration, not pander to Reform and the tabloids.
“My 2023 open letter to the BBC about Question Time, read by more than 300,000 people in 144 countries, was widely reported in the media. It even informed questions posed to the BBC’s director general Tim Davie at a parliamentary select committee.”
The media’s dangerous embrace of Farage: a critical look at BBC’s Question Time
The BBC’s platforming of Nigel Farage on Question Time promotes divisive and misleading rhetoric, distorting the debate on immigration
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December 12, 2024 at 9:34 PM
Terrific article by @docrussjackson.bsky.social analysing Farage's rhetorical tactics on Question Time. Labour need to counter the rhetoric of the right on immigration, not pander to Reform and the tabloids.
2024 Playlist One
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December 12, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Less of a storming, more of a mooch, judging by this film. Syria is a beautiful country of beautiful people. Good riddance to Assad; good luck to thise people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
Video shows Syria presidential palace stormed
Syrians enter the palace in the capital city after the fall of Bashar al-Assad.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2024 at 1:23 PM
Less of a storming, more of a mooch, judging by this film. Syria is a beautiful country of beautiful people. Good riddance to Assad; good luck to thise people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Nigel Farage loves open borders - for the super rich
YouTube video by Led By Donkeys
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November 28, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
November 24, 2024 at 7:58 PM
Difficult to describe what a dangerous moment we are in.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
The owner of Twitter/richest man in the world/closest adviser to the next US president is promoting a far-right Tommy Robinson (!) documentary to his 200 million followers.
This is the mainstreaming of violent, Islamophobic fascism.
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Amidst cutbacks at the New York Times, it appears the Oxford comma has been laid off.
November 21, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Amidst cutbacks at the New York Times, it appears the Oxford comma has been laid off.
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Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) ⭐️💙
November 20, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Hello! If you oppose NHS privatisation please could you repost this and follow me? I need to know who to follow next (it’ll be you!) ⭐️💙