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Penny Sturt

@supervisionmatters.bsky.social

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Passionate about #Supervision in education and social care. Safeguarding children Like to dream big- sometimes it happens

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Penny Sturt @supervisionmatters.bsky.social · 15d

The next course to train #Supervisors to work in their own settings is booking now talkingheadssupervision.co.uk/supervision-...

Supervision Training - Talking Heads Supervision

Why is supervision training important in schools? Supervision can make a real difference to the wellbeing of staff, pupils and families.

talkingheadssupervision.co.uk

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10h

Total sellout. I can’t believe anyone who has any respect for the professionalism of teachers and for the future of education for democracy has anything to do with him.

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Gemma Clark 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸 @gemmaclark.bsky.social · 8h

It’s Banned Books Week. This documentary is terrifying and you should watch it. It’s about the far right targeting librarians (including with violence). I know teachers in 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 who have been targeted. The homegrown fascists use this playbook #TheLibrarians www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Penny Sturt @supervisionmatters.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks for the reminder- have made a note to watch it. My parents having lived through the Second World War trained as librarians and understood the significance of being able to read and the power of what can be read

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Penny Sturt @supervisionmatters.bsky.social · 6h

This is a fascinating idea.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 7h

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 20h

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Penny Sturt @supervisionmatters.bsky.social · 6h

Definitely more work to be done on protecting it I agree- but we’re not very productive chasing paper all the time either

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 19h

"We haven’t come all this way, Katwala says, “just for Elon Musk, a man born into an apartheid state, who’s polarised America, to come and start a civil war here by breaking the law"
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Sunder Katwala on race, patriotism and flag-waving: ‘The far right is vocal and angry because it is shrinking’

The director of British Future has spent his career trying to find common ground when it comes to race and immigration. He describes his own experience of racism – and why he’s still hopeful for the U...

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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 15d

I *really* enjoyed talking Project 2025, Trump, Reform and Farage with @alisonjourno.bsky.social and @jonnelledge.bsky.social Listen in link below!

Oh God, What Now? – the politics podcast @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social · 15d

Project 2025 gave Trump a roadmap for his authoritarian presidency, and with Reform UK on the rise we ask whether such a project could be undertaken here?
@petergeoghegan.bsky.social joins @alisonjourno.bsky.social and @jonnelledge.bsky.social to discuss 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow...

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Penny Sturt @supervisionmatters.bsky.social · 18h

The number of times and ways in which proving who you are is needed and only paper copies of address or birth certificate acceptable which is more time/resources used.

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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 1d

It is my momento mori style obligation to remind you that this is not just coming to the uk but is it is already here.

Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 2d

Recommended viewing: Storyville: The Librarians, BBC4, Tuesday, 7 October. Explores how librarians across the US are risking their safety to defend free speech as book bans and censorship threaten democracy from within. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Four - Storyville, The Librarians

Documentary about the US librarians who are risking their safety to defend free speech.

www.bbc.co.uk

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ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1d

Andy Street, former Mayor of the West Midlands, sets Robert Jenrick @robertjenrickmp.bsky.social straight on integration in Handsworth and claims of it being a slum.

with Sonia Sodha @sonia-sodha.bsky.social and Victoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social on #Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

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Penny Sturt @supervisionmatters.bsky.social · 1d

That was my thoughts too- so waiting for him to take aim at white ghettoes.

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Sparks @petudo.bsky.social · 1d

This. #everyoneforeveryone

Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 2d

Superb messaging here. Scottish (and UK) politicians take note. #ZohranMamdani

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

Wow. Robert Jenrick doubles down by branding a black journalist's questions "ridiculous" and saying that the problem is not his comments, but "journalists like you who pop up and try to knock me down", adding that "this is the reason why terrorist attacks happen". ~AA

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Penny Sturt @supervisionmatters.bsky.social · 1d

As the article makes clear we would be unwise to become complacent- there is a lot at stake and a lot of money to support this

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1d

Katie Lam says there are some schools in London "where 3/4 pupils don't speak English to the standard needed to for education"

Are there? London school results are outperforming everywhere else, partly + migration/diversity effects

[CPS livestreaming this if want to check the quote.It was 915am]

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Straight out of the Project 2025 recipe book for authoritarianism.

I'll sack activist judges to tackle pro-migrant bias, says
Jenrick
Shadow justice secretary says there should be no place for judges tweeting political opinions 'subverting impartiality of the judiciary'
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Coverage of Jenrick today basically amounts to sane-washing. He didn't criticise judges. He claimed there was a conspiracy by certain judges, who he had discovered and could number, to undermine British law and create open borders.

ʀak @raksky.bsky.social · 1d

“… a sort of mad McCarthyite scream of paranoia and anxiety of the sort which he has now branded himself… he is living entirely inside of his little mind…”

Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social nails Robert Jenrick’s plans for “activist” judges during Sky News’ Press Preview.

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 8d

JOIN US: The Sociological Review journal is recruiting 15 new Editorial Board members who will take up post in February 2026.

Our aim is to recruit a cohort of globally minded scholars reflective of the richness and diversity of the sociological community.

➡️ Deadline 5 December buff.ly/wQQwoHU

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 1d

How do we join the dots between #racism #capitalism #colonialism and #tech ? Why must we? Hear John Narayan @irrnews.bsky.social on Ambalavaner Sivanandan for our mini-series #SidewaysSociology. Engage! Share! #blackhistory #antiracism @versobooks.bsky.social buff.ly/d2BjFY7

Sideways Sociology: UK Anti-Racism
Ambalavaner Sivanandan
Tech and Anti-Racism
by John Narayan
Podcast graphic featuring central photograph of Ambalavaner Sivanandan's face, superimposed on line drawings of Black and Brown faces against a yellow background with parallel lines and arrows pointing rightward.

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

… of politicians who have been murdered over recent years and attacks on others. We cannot simply dismiss things like this, as I had already said in relation to Badenoch the other day, as the last horrendous hurrah of a dying party.The harm can still be very real even if it is. /end

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 1d

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Caroline Litman @alicemydaughter.bsky.social · 2d

US news. A judge who ruled against Trump has been doxxed and receiving death threats. Now members of her family have been seriously injured escaping from this huge blast at her home. It’s being investigated as a possible arson attack.

We’re living in bad times, says my mum. She lived through WW2.

George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 1d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

October 5, 2025

October 6, 2025

If White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller is at the head of the administration’s deployment of federal agents against undocumented immigrants, it appears that Office of Management and Budget...

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 1d

Part Two is live.

Project 2025 isn’t just an American story anymore - it’s being rewritten in Westminster under a new name:

The Centre for a Better Britain.

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/resolute-1...

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