I wanted to avoid being political whilst the general election is on, but this simile from Belfast Live did make me chuckle "but in true The Thick of It style, it was like a clown running through a minefield"

This race of F1 Grand Prix comes courtesy of the Wacky Races. #monacogp #p1 P1 with Matt & Tommy

Sainz restarting the Grand Prix in 3rd after running off the track on lap 1 #monacogp #p1 P1 with Matt & Tommy

#MonacoGP #p1 P1 with Matt & Tommy

Charle Leclerc to the engineers #monacogp #p1 P1 with Matt & Tommy

I'm finding it hard to distinguish conversations I have with my 3yo from interviews with politicians: Me: Do you need the toilet? 3yo: I think I want the Elsa dress. Me: That's lovely but do you need the toilet? 3yo: Listen, can you hear that noise? #generalelection #toddler

‘Every year they have held back pay decisions to the very last minute like a badly organised sixth former with an essay deadline,’ says trust CEO @JonnyUttley of news that the government’s teacher pay decision will be confirmed post-election tes.com/magazine/news/…

When you find out your year 13 gain time is being used to take on a 'challenging' class.

I really want an A Level Language student to do an NEA on Trump's daily post-trial media speeches. I think it would be quite an interesting topic. #Trump #TeamEnglish #eduqas

New Conservatives Facebook ad, which appears to be leaning into Davos/WEF/"Great Reset" conspiracy theories.

This is an actual quote from the headteacher: "We lost a lot of people in Covid… a lot of our parents, their businesses have not recovered. So a lot of them have left and gone to state schools. Then we had the interest rates, energy bills and all of that."

Saw that #NoamChomsky was trending and had a moment of sheer joy as I thought the level of discourse on this platform had upped. I'm sad to discover that he died. I was literally talking about him with my A Level group today. Sad times. #RIPNoam

The Eagle has Landed, Don't Look Now, The First Great Train Robbery, The Dirty Dozen, JFK: some of my favourite films were truly built on the back of the wonderful #DonaldSutherland . He will be missed.

You got to wonder if a sport is really all that entertaining if I can walk away from it, come back eighty minutes later and find... Absolutely... Nothing... has...changed... #engsvn #EURo2024

This is revolting, it is so easy to exploit young children. They will have no idea what he has done politically.

Hit me up English Teachers! I'm looking up possible trips for A Level - both Literature and Language course. Has anyone done any really worthwhile trips with their English KS5 cohorts? #TeamEnglish