A reminder here about how GCSEs are graded. A third will always fail, no matter how high those grades might be... Time for change?

Can we have this for MPs as well? Peers who fail to turn up and participate in the House of Lords will be forced to resign under an overhaul being planned by Labour. msn.com/en-gb/news/ukn…?

Amanda Spielman Under your watch, Ofsted produced reports & training materials & undertook inspections on the basis of a set of shibboleths that ignored key evidence, distorted research & presented simplistic conceptions of learning that did not recognise subject differences. At primary 2/

Amanda Spielman vast amounts of money & effort were expended on a particularly narrow view of phonics, claiming that it alone would solve the problem of getting all children to a good level of reading. The reality is that this has not happened & in gaining a tiny rise in test scores, 3/

And still the BBC Politics ignore the the largest 3rd party in parliament for 100 years with 72 MP's. Ah but Reform UK have 4 MP's so they should be given as much airtime to ensure Farage wins the next GE.

Had a painful hysteroscopy? Please complete our anonymous survey which goes to Department of Health and Social Care Close on 10,000 women have told us what needs to change in hysteroscopy care. docs.google.com/forms/d/1wuDc_…

2025: Michael Gove says Trump's approach to Ukraine is based on a desire to end the war - not sure Ukrainians are happy giving up land to Russia, but hey ho 2016: That time Brexiter Michael Gove said we could have a green Brexit - how's that going 🤷‍♂️

Ruth Swailes It was always very clear to me that Spielman's OFSTED and Gibb's DFE were very closely ideologically aligned. How can the head of an independent inspectorate be subsequently ennobled by a political party without that previous relationship being questioned?

When diagnosing a disease does more harm than good - SWI swissinfo.ch swissinfo.ch/eng/health-sys…

The Times has an excoriating report on the chaos and incompetence in Reform led councils across the country. They really are completely out of their depth. Warwickshire, Kent, Durham, Lancashire, Derbyshire, Staffs, Leicestershire utter disgrace

The Telegraph Nick Gibb No it shouldn’t.

I switch channels now when anything 'Nigel Farage says/does/thinks' comes on. I simply don't want to see or hear his vile views, and I do not want to watch or listen to journalist wallowing in his verbal excrement for the sake of sensationalist reporting. It isn't journalism.

Dear BBC Radio 4 Today will you please give Liberal Democrats as much time at least as you have given to Reform when talking about migrants. We also have policies about how to deal with asylum seekers and one that make sense. After all we have 72 MPs, not just 4 MPs.

Zia Yusuf: "The British people are fed up" "The British people are fed up..." "The British people are fed up" "The British people are sick and tired..." I'm "British people" and I'm "sick and tired" of right-wing fruitcakes claiming they speak for me #r4today #bbcr4today

Laura Trott MP If you are that worried about disadvantaged children, why did your party close over 1000 Surestart centers? Are you going to apologise to the millions of "disadvantaged children" for failing them?

John Bald Amanda Spielman It's so depressing that dogma + financial interests have led to such a failure to understand the complexities of reading & the ways in which phonic, semantic, morphological, etymological & whole text understandings are all usefully brought into play & how making sense matters!

The Telegraph Nick Gibb If 100% of the kids passed nationwide, the state would up the grade boundaries to fail x%.

Due hysteroscopy at John Radcliffe OUH ? Please know you can have this with an anaesthetist. The Oxford outpatient hysteroscopy video explains that they'll take 5 or 6 biopsies and you might want to be sick. The patient in the video was very brave. 𝑫𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑨𝒓𝒊𝒇

Old news, and unproductive to say so, but it bears repeating that Reform currently has exactly the same number of MPs as does Plaid Cymru. And there is absolutely no way that the BBC would make a policy launch by Plaid its top story - the playing field is farcially unequal.

I honestly can't believe this. NottinghamshireLive have just been told we are now banned from interviewing Reform's Notts County Council leader or any of his colleagues. The ban will be lifted for emergencies like flooding or incidents at council-run schools. nottinghampost.com/news/news-opin…