Today the Observer has published an extraordinary piece, which I think they view as a romantic case for assisted dying, but which is, in fact, a textbook case of how doctors subvert the rules to help patients without any terminal illness whatsoever to die by suicide. It could

Gift link to this extremely important essay by Allen Frances. The dynamic he describes re: autism applies, IMO, to a much wider range of mental health diagnostic categories. nytimes.com/2025/06/23/opi…

Education more generally is drowning as the (positive) urge toward empathy and care has no internal limiting mechanism beyond resource, which is a weak control, thus placing increasingly impossible demands on the sector and making schools prey to Everythingism

I think the men who get up every day and go to a job they hate without grumbling, to do work they despise without quitting - to provide for their families without wavering - are the unsung heroes we don’t talk enough about.

“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science.” - Carl Sagan

Progressives have things the wrong way round - they should spend less time trying to figure out why some younger men seem to like Tate and much more time trying to figure out why they really don't like progressives. If you solve that, you'll solve the Tate problem with it.

Gosh - bravo Financial Times ft.com/content/de12a3…

It's another Python sketch

I mean, what have these people been smoking?

Tom Starkey We had a child come to us recently who we immediately had concerns around. It took me 3 weeks to get the safeguarding records sent to us from his previous school. What I found out could have cost us dearly, I should have known BEFORE he came.

I think now more than ever, education needs a much more diverse set of voices.

I've just seen an IG post advertising a like, follow and share competition for a half price private ADHD assessment.

Nothing improves a school more, for both results and day-to-day well-being, than getting behaviour right. Leaders who neglect behaviour management damage staff, pupils, and the whole culture, and they leave chaos behind them.

It's crazy how Iran can just slaughter 50,000 of their own people and progressives don't care at all

The regime is collapsing in Iran but thriving in Western media and academia

Middle class rebellion is so tiresome

It's right we have external accountability but the current system is a choice. It doesn't have to be like this.

Next time I have to do an employability skills lesson on PSHE day:

Economic illiteracy aside, this is plain wrong. It's not about the "worker" it's about the work itself. Not all jobs justify a £30k salary.