Chris Chivers

If you're thinking about inclusive approaches, it might be useful to have a few thinking prompts. PDF download, reflections and checklists. chrischiversthinks.weebly.com/pdfs.html

The Finnish candle is just a log with a few chainsaw cuts, yet it burns like a torch for up to three hours and doubles as a cooking stove.

A bad week for Trump and co?

Imagine the system that creates a man of such astounding racism, ignorance and dishonesty, and allows him to rise to such a position of power. He is bullshit in human form.

#bbcbreakfast Brexit has not been “reopened because of Andy Burnham”, but because: - it’s turned out to be a costly mistake - geopolitics shows we can’t rely on the US, but need to work with our neighbours with whom we share common interests - the public has turned against it

I think it doesn't reflect well on the BBC that one its leading presenters is allowed to write an 'analysis' for a highly partisan newspaper which includes lines like "Racial minorities, worshipped by white Democrats" www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Keep an eye on the moon tonight, it’s the full Hunter’s moon and reached its peak in the early hours of this morning. 🌕 The name traditionally reflects the time of year when people prepared for winter by hunting and preserving food. Look towards the autumn sky to catch the moon glowing. ✨

Trump’s goal is to intimidate me and get me to back down. That’s not going to happen. I will not be silenced, and I will not stop fighting for my constituents.

This photo neatly sums up the two possible reactions to Trump these days. Closing your eyes and pretending it's not happening, or staring with undisguised horror.

Analysts “predict” Putin will cater Iran to Trump in exchange for Ukraine. You may have this illusion, if you ignore the fact that Russia lies, steals, and terrorizes. Whatever he offers now as a bait, will be long forgotten or claimed to be “lost in translation” soon after.

This would be an interesting place to see. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The Covid Inquiry’s Module 6 report is devastating. Its central conclusion: adult social care was treated as “something of an afterthought”, while “protecting the NHS” sometimes came at the expense of people receiving and providing care. 1/10

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of. 1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

“Fiction is a good way to instil empathy. So that when [children] meet people who have suffered war or see war on their screens, they will understand better its dreadful impact.” Author #TomPalmer joins the Big Story Festival at the Imperial War Museum: southlondonnews.co.uk/national/hea...

It's interesting that some people are exercised about how to assess #oracy. We don't have to formally assess something to consider it valuable and worth doing. Yes, assessment supports progress but you can just do it through observations. We're trapped in an 'only what is measured counts' mentality.

This commentator says they "use turn & talk ~20 times per lesson so pupils rehearse the knowledge I explicitly teach". Sorry but that's not oracy, it's performative compliance. Language is *expressive* and *communicative*. It's not a test of how much you've memorised.

George Harrison stands at the gates of Friar Park,staring at what most people would call a disaster. The Victorian mansion is decaying. Grass grows through the floors. The once-famous gardens are wild and overrun. Greenhouses have collapsed. Grottoes are buried.

One thousand percent!!!! And more… Musk is a fool, a fraud and now a traitor! No amount of money should allow one man to manipulate the cretin in the White House and destroy the lives of millions of rational human beings. Time to pull the plug on Musk and his business empire. Evidently money talks.

A billionaire to celebrate- hurrah @richardbranson.bsky.social

Another day, another pardoned J-6er arrested and sentenced to 19 years for sexually-assaulting a 7-year-old little girl. A CHILD! MAGA is now recognized as the world's most notorious Pro-Pedophile movement....

Excellent debunk of the ReFuk Thick-tank assertion suggesting “furriners” are taking “are” jobs.

"But I think I find Zelenskyy to be more difficult to deal with than Putin" Why? Because one is real and fights a desperate war for his country and people, while the other is a self-enriching megalomaniac not caring about his people, but so like yourself?” Trump IS a fan of the murdering 🇷🇺 bastard

A new teacher told me yesterday that they couldn't experiment with a different way of starting the lesson to see if it helped with focus and attention because the school had a set way of delivering lessons. I think that's really sad. We are in danger of stripping all the creativity out of the job. 😕

The police are investigating. They will have their lines of enquiry. Please share this image widely so that everyone knows what it looked like.

This poem got an absolutely amazing reception from students and teachers when I debuted it in performance today. It’s one of many which I’ve freshly added for FREE to my website: www.joshuaseigal.co.uk enjoy! #EduSky #Teaching

This is hilarious

If you can be "provoked" into saying/doing something racist, the chances are that you are, in fact, racist.

Whatever the truth of the Musk/Trump theatricals over Starlink, we should pause to think about the fact that key defence systems are controlled by a psychopathic megalomaniac and a white-supremacist egomaniac.

Badenoch tells PMQs "all of the gas" from Jackdaw "goes into the British grid". This is misleading - the grid is connected to Europe, so once gas goes into the "British grid" it's often sold abroad And anyway, it would only produce 2-6% of UK gas output at peak. Bald men fighting over a dirty comb.

A number of European leaders have expressed support for Ukraine resuming strikes on Russian oil refineries 🇸🇪 Swedish PM Kristersson: "Of course,they need to limit the money that Russia can gain from exports.That's also a way of saying that the agreement between the US&Russia right now is a bad sign"

Rutte: Don't forget, for the defense of the USA,NATO is also crucial.We defend the USA from these Russian nuclear submarines ending up at the shores of the USA We make sure that the transatlantic is safe, the Euro-Atlantic area is safe,…that Europe is safe – all in the interest of the USA.

🚨🚨Two striking events after #Trump's & #Putin's diesel deal: 1) #Kyiv came under missile attack after 10 pm local time on 12/10, with powerful explosions reported "before" an air raid alert was issued reported by @kyivindependent.com journalists on the ground. kyivindependent.com/explosions-h...

I think it's absolutely fantastic. It shows what an extraordinary country I live in and that refugees can fully integrate and participate in society

Gah. Stop this nonsense. FOM is a benefit. Stop framing it as a negative. Also, FOM is one of the four freedoms. Without it, you can’t be in the EU and can’t even be in the single market. This isn’t difficult.

Reform to Suspend Patients Until Further Notice Hot on the heels of Reform's pledge to suspend the asylum system for a full parliamentary term come reports of plans to tackle NHS waiting lists using the same principle. 🤣 mrhenrymorris.substack.com/p/reform-to-...

I love this!