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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 22h

As Jo Grady, the UCU general secretary, said:

“This is an economically illiterate policy; no country has ever grown by slashing university places. Nonsensical ideas such as this come as no surprise from the party that crashed the economy…”

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 23h

She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English

The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

inews.co.uk

mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 1d

And at night in #Thatchertheatre …….. well, you know what happens…..

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 2d

"Thatcher theatre" - pretty much sums up cul-de-sac into which the Conservative Party has driven itself in the decades since her defenestration. And now it too, risks becoming a museum piece, fit only for two or three glass display cases rather than a return to office.

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SecEd @seced.bsky.social · 9d

The new #Ofsted inspection framework is flawed, poses clear risks to the wellbeing of school leaders & #teachers & will not offer parents reliable assessments of schools, says Paul Whiteman – @naht.org.uk – in his @seced.bsky.social blog: buff.ly/tQ5TPH9 #schools #edusky

Ofsted’s framework might actually increase risks to school leader safety - SecEd

Ofsted’s failure to listen to school leader concerns when revising inspection framework could increase wellbeing risks

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14d

Nigel Farage swans around peddling hate on Nick Ferrari’s phone-in | John Crace

From immigrants eating the king’s waterfowl to sharia law in London, it’s all there in our Nige’s relativist world

www.theguardian.com

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 13d

It is indeed increasingly annoying and unbalanced the way in which the BBC report on immigration and on Farage/ReformUK. It is also what they do not report on.

JuneSim63 @junesim63.bsky.social · 14d

This is awful. I feel for this poor woman. However, the BBC has had a hand in this upturn in racism by creating and promoting constantly and disproportionately Nigel Farage and Reform UK.

Kriszta Satori @fulelo.bsky.social · 14d

More and more such incidents happening daily
www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 14d

From the original Swedish researchers.

Paracetamol use during pregnancy not linked to autism, our study of 2.5 million children shows

Our research provides strong evidence against the concerning claims made recently by US president Donald Trump.

theconversation.com

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 14d

People listened to Hopkins’ words even though what he was saying was really wild & without proper facts, I think this feels very resonant right now. We are again in a moment in time in which people are willing to follow powerful and so called charismatic leaders, regardless of the costs.

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 14d

In the 1645 Essex witch trials, led by men like Mathew Hopkins, women were branded as ungodly if they took herbal remedies to ease pregnancy & childbirth. Justice Alito, in striking down Roe vs Wade, quoted the judge in those trials, Sir Matthew Hale; his words later echoed in Salem.

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 14d

he could have stopped after the first 4 words…..
#Farage #Trump

Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 14d

Farage asked on @lbc.co.uk whether he agreed with on the unproven link between paracetamol and autism

“I have no idea... We were told thalidomide was a v safe drug and it isn’t. who knows. I don’t know, you don’t know…when it comes to science I don’t side with anybody. It’s never settled.”

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Stella Creasy MP @stellacreasy.bsky.social · 15d

Reform’s immigration plan falls apart on hard contact with evidence, economics and any form of engaged brain. Never be afraid to stand up for this country and its decency and future by giving them short shrift.

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for your contribution to this programme and highlighting(again) the appalling waste of money and how a few lined their pockets from exploiting others’ misery.
Where oh where is the accountability?

Private Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 17d

Catch Eye hack Richard Brooks tonight on ITV1 in The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money.

The documentary tells the story of how some companies with little or no track record in supplying PPE or medical tests were given massive contracts - and made a killing from Covid.

🕙 10:15pm on ITV1 / ITVX

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for your contribution to this programme and highlighting(again) the appalling waste of money and how a few lined their pockets from exploiting others’ misery.
Where oh where is the accountability?

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · 16d

ITV’s The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money shows how government went from no PPE to mountains of it with huge contracts handed to firms with little to no track record.

Our director Jo Maugham explains Good Law Project’s role in exposing the VIP lane.

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you for highlighting this but why is there so little accountability? Why was it aired so late? Why so little coverage elsewhere in the media? Such a disgrace.

mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 15d

Why has this received so little coverage? Where is the accountability? Well done ITV for showing it but why not at peak time? @chrischirp.bsky.social @paulbrand.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @samfr.bsky.social @maitlis.bsky.social #PPE

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 17d

Small boats: TV coverage - day after day after day after day....

PPE scandal: TV coverage - let's stick this powerful, enraging documentary on at quarter past ten on a Sunday night.

The Covid Contracts: Follow the Money review – a devastating picture of the biggest spending scandal ever

This rigorous look at the Tories’ ‘VIP lane’ for PPE suppliers during Covid raises questions about the motivations of those involved – ones that are almost too disgusting to contemplate

www.theguardian.com

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 18d

“As we’re seeing in the US it’s messy and often unpopular but can still lead to very significant change through sheer brute force” Is this the ‘he got the trains to run on time’ syndrome? That way danger lies. @samfr.bsky.social @suecowley.bsky.social @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 19d

When I talk about chaotic authoritarianism in this post - this is what I'm talking about....

samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 24d

despite media focus on small boats and asylum seekers, these only make up a tiny % of those coming to the UK – less than 5% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social

What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?

Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974

www.theguardian.com

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 24d

despite media focus on small boats and asylum seekers, these only make up a tiny % of those coming to the UK – less than 5% www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#immigration #smallboats @suecowley.bsky.social @profaliceroberts.bsky.social @chrischirp.bsky.social @morsecat.bsky.social

What do the immigration figures for the UK really show?

Official figures indicate net migration is falling, yet concern among Britons is close to the highest it has been since polling began in 1974

www.theguardian.com

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 29d

Time for it to go not for it to change (a bit) #ofsted
@suecowley.bsky.social

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) @ascl-uk.bsky.social · Sep 9

"Let's remember that this entire process began with the suicide of a headteacher under the previous inspection system. Yet here we are with a reformed system which appears to be even worse."

Our full comment on #Ofsted's confirmed inspection changes: ow.ly/98JG50WT1Ab

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Carol Vorderman @carolvorders.bsky.social · Sep 7

If you vote Reform you will be voting against women’s equality, for more harassment in the workplace and beyond (as if there isn’t enough)

Remember 41% of the Farage Foot Soldiers arrested in last summer’s disgraceful riots had already been REPORTED FOR DOMESTIC ABUSE

Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · Sep 7

Well said 👏

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · 29d

“….when you dig down into their policies the public are going to be absolutely horrified by what comes out of their mouths.”
Unfortunately @maitlis.bsky.social not enough are horrified because much of the media normalise their stance on health, immigration & more…

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headsroundtable.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social · Sep 5

Really positive article from our own @vicgoddard.bsky.social here:

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

Bridget Phillipson is right to focus on the plight of the white working class

But real change will only come with proper policies that look at creating structural change to ensure all in education believe they can succeed, says Vic Goddard

www.tes.com

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · Sep 5

‘That’s not just numbers on a sheet; that’s a young person walking into a college interview with doors already closed. That’s a parent/carer who doesn’t know how to help because they didn’t get those chances either. That’s a community that starts to believe education isn’t for them’
Spot on.

Caroline Derbyshire @morsecat.bsky.social · Sep 5

Essex school leaders will see their students in every word Vic says here. @vicgoddard.bsky.social

headsroundtable.bsky.social @headsroundtable.bsky.social · Sep 5

Really positive article from our own @vicgoddard.bsky.social here:

www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · Sep 3

Can’t get enough of this. @raskin.house.gov rubbing Nigel Farage’s nose in his self-confessed love of Putin as he’s forced to sit & watch is delicious beyond words

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Sep 3

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · Sep 1

Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicity, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

www.theguardian.com

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mikehodgkiss.bsky.social @mikehodgkiss.bsky.social · Aug 17

Beautiful, enjoy the serenity. I love standing stones (Outlander fan) Long Meg, Cumbria

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