Warwick Mansell Oak Academy and the obsession with all schools becoming academies is everything that is wrong with our education system. Dull, robotic content and absolutely no joy or creativity. Teachers micromanaged and treated like robots.🤖 Children too.

For many reasons - series 13 of Digging for Britain is my last one. The end of a fifteen-year-long journey for me. Onwards and upwards!

BREAKING NEWS 🚨 86.3% of people eligible to vote in Gorton and Denton did not vote for Reform UK! 72.3% of those who actually voted did not vote Reform! Why are they getting so much air time on the BBC?

A selection of #Roman ridged glass bowls, all made about 2000 years ago - but still looking fantastic!

Taking care of yourself is still progress. Rest is still progress. Existing on hard days is still progress.

Great article here by my mate Charlotte Higgins on why ENJOYMENT is not the only reason for reading. It is also challenging, disturbing, eye-opening, uncomfortable. And why we should include non-fiction as well as fiction in “reading”. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Word of the Day is a reminder of ‘snerdling’: 19th-century dialect for snuggling beneath the covers for as long as possible.

I wish we lived in a world where I didn't feel constantly compelled to post this video, but until then here's Tony Benn speaking on war with clarity and moral conviction that you won't see from the evil people running the world today

Who spent their pocket money on a Saturday buying music at these shops?..

If ever you needed a front page that captured the crass yet also dangerous silliness of so much of our media, and the impact of a right wing nationalism that has done so much harm through history from which we don’t seem to learn …

I am following with deep concern what is happening in the Middle East and in Iran during this tumultuous time. Stability and peace are not achieved through mutual threats, nor through the use of weapons, which sow destruction, suffering, and death, but only through reasonable,

Happy St Davids Day to all my Welsh friends, especially Jones the Steam...

Closest thing to a book in #Pompeii were the separate wax tablets tied together. It is pleasing to find that most depictions of them are in the hands or homes of women. #WorldBookDay #WorldBookDay2026

Introverts enjoy company just as much as extroverts do, but they prefer it in smaller doses and with people who make them feel comfortable and safe

One of the most beautiful lines I have read “Half the World are Women. The other half are their children” - Efu Nyaki #InternationalWomensDay

There are many faces of women in frescoes in Pompeii but I remain mesmerised by these two in particular with their unusual blue-grey sclera. They adorned the walls of a small room in the House of Leda, #Pompeii #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2026

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

The swirling central panel of a #Roman geometric mosaic - almost hypnotic! #MosaicMonday

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🧡❤️🧡❤️🧡 Thankyou Donna Ashworth I often feel overwhelmed with the myriad things I want to say on Mother’s Day. But I think this is the most important place to begin. #mothersday