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Mike Cameron

@mikercameron

Was a teacher, still a cynic.

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Fucking hell!!

09.03.2026 21:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I love the way football pundits try and excuse foul play with a cry of β€œit’s a contact sport!”.

Well, maybe, but only within the rules that relate to the contact that’s allowed.

09.03.2026 21:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Presumably there are enough all through schools now to provide some meaningful statistics as to whether or not they’re a good idea. Anyone have any links to any good research on this?

09.03.2026 19:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kent schools say new Year 7s to be banned from using smartphones Leaders say this

When many (most?) secondary schools ban all student use of mobile phones on school premises (under threat of prolonged confiscation) I’m unsure why initiatives such as this one are being promoted as newsworthy.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

09.03.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Will Wolves pull off Premier League's greatest escape? Wolves are bottom of the Premier League, 12 points off safety. But two wins in a row have raised faint hopes that they could survive relegation.

lol, no. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

09.03.2026 14:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Cumbria firm develops predator-spotting tech to keep women safe Rosie Richardson wants to shift the onus to self protect away from women and on to the authorities.

A bit β€œMinority Report” but good stuff nonetheless the less.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

09.03.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not now, Solar system.

09.03.2026 11:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

…is currently re-watching The Expanse. The interactions between Earters, Martians and Belters are uncannily reminiscent of the times we live in.

09.03.2026 11:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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So Badenoch thinks she can only keep her MPs loyal by giving them power. Nothing to do with policy or values then?

09.03.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

So we’re getting a shadow cabinet based on how likely they are to defect to Reform.

That’s going to go well.

09.03.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Distancing himself from Trump and Blair in one go, without actually having to do anything. He’ll see that as a result.

07.03.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Same old Chelsea, always cheating.

07.03.2026 20:25 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just call them English Language and English Literature.

07.03.2026 20:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I haven’t listened to that.

07.03.2026 20:07 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Then let them take both quals if they want. That will be their choice.

07.03.2026 19:39 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Solve that problem and there’s a Nobel Prize in it!

FWIW too much content and too much time devoted to SATS cramming is my take. Plus there’s quite a bit of unnecessary retracting going on in Y7.

07.03.2026 19:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Primary school teaching (Covid issues aside) has never been better.

07.03.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Levelling up The other day @miss_mcinerney posted the following quote: I’ll come back to this later. I’m also going to be fashionable and quote Barak Rosenshine:- β€œThe research also suggests that the optimal su…

The current system makes the lives of a huge number of kids miserable, giving them a terrible experience studying maths. In my experience bright kids will usually make the right choice for themselves. My concern here is those at the other end.

cogitateit.wordpress.com/2021/09/29/l...

07.03.2026 16:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

If you can’t persuade them and their parents that they should take it then maybe they shouldn’t.

No system works perfectly for every single case. All we can do is make the system so that if everyone makes the β€œcorrect” choice the system enables it to happen.

07.03.2026 15:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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This has been the obvious path for some time.

07.03.2026 14:44 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

The only point at which this becomes a good idea is if we can give them Andrew.

Otherwise can we please stop having to listen to this idiot.

07.03.2026 10:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Be interesting to see how Trump manages to use this to attack Ukraine.

06.03.2026 13:17 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Fernando Alonso in 'hard mental place' because of Aston Martin's problems, says Adrian Newey Aston Martin's dire start to the season has left Fernando Alonso in a

Can’t believe that someone with Neweys obvious intelligence would knowingly sign-up to lead such a shit show. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formul...

06.03.2026 11:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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London doctor carries out first UK remote robotic surgery The milestone procedure went well, with patient Paul Buxton saying he felt

So you thought teaching a class over Teams was tricky. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

06.03.2026 10:38 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump fires homeland security secretary Kristi Noem Markwayne Mullin, Republican senator and Maga ally, to replace Noem as Democrats cheer departure of β€˜disaster’

And so it begins.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

05.03.2026 21:43 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There a big transatlantic split on BlueSky.

On the US side it’s intense war stuff.

On the UK side it’s all β€œSpurs are going down, going down, going down….”

05.03.2026 21:04 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

A month ago the received wisdom was that we were down. Leeds, Spurs, Notts F, all in it with us now.

05.03.2026 21:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Championship play-offs: EFL clubs vote in favour of six-team play-off EFL clubs approve plans to expand the Championship play-offs from four to six teams for the 2026-27 season onwards.

Finally some good news for Spurs fans.
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

05.03.2026 13:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Odds-on that Igor is gone ere the night is out.

05.03.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œAnd it’s getting better, GROWING STRONGER….”

05.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0