Do you need to like the children in your class to be able to teach them?

Home schooling day 2: Ok class, reflecting on everything you’ve observed in the last two days, let us turn to our poetry anthologies and consider Larkin’s This Be The Verse.

@och_shona JustGiving We are all thinking of Bob and the family today ❤️💙

I’m sorry to say that due to a cease and desist order I shall no longer be performing tonight’s rooftop Rumpelstiltskin.

I can listen to Pavement all day long. Shove this classic up your Friday afternoon: youtu.be/8n9YWNX4rOk via YouTube

The Andrew Marr show just glossed over the Sunday Times report like it was an “And finally...” story about a monkey that can play the guitar. #marr

Lockdown week 4. Bum notes a bonus.

Govt briefings now have the clarity of Radiohead art work.

Cummings currently trying to decide which pair of jogging bottoms project the right level of arrogance.

When you die, this is what happens as you try to get into heaven.

This feels like a session set up to test the authenticity of an android politician. #LiaisonCommittee

This is astonishing. Hot on heels of Newsnight comes this. The government is now literally using our money to *pay* the Daily Mail to publish pro-government propaganda pieces about how well it is handling COVID-19. ‘Sponsored by The UK Government’

Awful detail here about the reality of Boris Johnson's “world-beating” test-and-tracing system. Should be shocking but it’s just very dismal, and scary. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

We aren’t beaten yet, stand strong for the 200,000 children who haven’t had a meal to eat today and keep retweeting 🗣 #maketheUturn

Show the games but leave the seats in the studio empty. No analysis, just punctuate each match with onboard footage from a small boat crossing the channel in the dark.

If you have a moment to watch and share this I’d be very grateful. What they do here means so much to so many young people and we don’t want to lose it.