Latest from Institute for Fiscal Studies 🚨 Teachers have seen bigger falls in their average pay in real terms since 2010 than the public sector as a whole ➡️Teacher pay fell by 9% between 2010-September 2023 ➡️Public sector pay as a whole fell by 2.3% between 2010-2023 tes.com/magazine/news/…

NEW: Doctors and experienced teachers have faced unprecedented pay cuts since 2007. The gap between higher- and lower-paid public sector workers has fallen by more than a third since 2007. Read Jonathan Cribb and Laurence O'Brien's Election 2024 report: ifs.org.uk/publications/r…

Why did America destroy its own cities? A thread... 🧵

🚨🔴🎙️Wayne Rooney: "If you tell 12-year-old kids the name; 'Ji-sung Park', they might not know who he is. Yet all of us who have played with Park know that he was almost as important as Cristiano to our success." #MUFC Kids these days don’t realise how good this guy was.👏🔥

The "major report" on parents quitting private schools that the Daily Mail splash on today is a survey by Baines Cutler, a for-profit consultancy whose entire business is providing financial advice for private schools. Conflicted much? Laughable.

Victoria Derbyshire listing all the reasons young people hate the Tories is glorious #newsnight

Average teacher pay is 6% lower in real terms than in 2010, and about the same level in real terms as in 2001. Meanwhile, earnings across the economy are 6% higher than in 2010. This may help explain some of the teacher recruitment and retention problems. [6/8]

I don’t speak of this often but listening to Nigel Farage in tonight’s debate I must. My dad was an immigrant. From the moment he arrived in this country he worked hard every day in labouring jobs. My most vivid recollection is of his tired & weary eyes and oil stained overalls

The Conservatives manifesto claims the government’s recruited “record numbers of teachers”. The number of full-time equivalent teachers in England in 2023/24 is the highest since current records began in 2010/11, but there are fewer teachers per pupil. #GE24 (1/2)

Tories promise schools the biggest reduction in their budgets for 50 years is not a headline I thought we’d be writing today Savage assessment from the Institute for Fiscal Studies who say Sunak’s per-pupil funding ‘protection’ amounts to 6% cut and could lead to job losses and school closures 😬

5 days to go. Remember when senior Conservatives showed they don't understand anything about trade

REMINDER: The Conservatives scheduled 'Wine-time Fridays' between 4pm-7pm, every week, for staff in Number 10. During a global pandemic which killed over 200,000 people in Britain.

Lovely unscripted moment this morning in the Welsh Parliament as a brilliant young choir from Ysgol Treganna in Cardiff - singing Safwn yn y Bwlch in rehearsal - bump into the Prime Minister (watch their reaction at the end 🎶)

#SKYLINER Great until a storm. Been waiting 40 minutes now and am near front of queue. Now the rain has arrived, probably get soaked walking to the bus. 😢

If you look at the whole picture you can see Leonard, Dee and myself were spread out to deal with troublemakers. 🤣 There was that Star Wars guy in the front row. 🤔I think he was there representing the Christmas Special! 🙄😝

The Conservatives have criticised Labour’s plans to give more money to public sector workers, because 14 years of giving public money to your mates worked out so well for Britain

Visited the Tombs of the Kings in Paphos today and saw these little white flowers near the tombs. Reminded me of the Rohan flower and King Theoden at the burial mounds - the Simbelmynë. #Tolkien #LordOfTheRings

Harry 9

Looney Tunes legend MEL BLANC does his most famous characters back to back...

The first electronic stored-program computer, the Small-Scale Experimental Machine, known as 'Baby' - though it wasn't very small - ran its first program #OTD 1948 at the University of Manchester. It was built by Max Newman, Freddie Williams, Tom Kilburn and Geoff Tootill.