Congratulations Huw Stephens, recipient of the Hay Festival 2024 Medal for Music.

Not see any stats but I’ve a hunch that the percentage of speakers at Hay who were privately educated is larger than 7%.

NEW: I can reveal Labour’s investigation into suspended MP Diane Abbott’s racism comments finished 5 months ago

A source says she was given a ‘formal warning’ in Dec ‘23

Ms Abbott was required to do an online ‘anti semitism course’ - which she did in Feb

Yet source says she

The Complicity of Israeli Academia Jewish Currents jewishcurrents.org/the-complicity…

Horrific scenes from Rafah tonight.
Too awful to re post- charred and decapitated bodies of children.
And all while the world watches.
I truly hope that in my lifetime we see those in power held to account - those who could have stopped this and failed to do so
The appalling

A microscope as a symbol for an educational research organisation was the first red flag for me.

'Every time a journalist is killed... we lose fragments of the truth.'

The Committee to Protect Journalists says preliminary investigations show Israel’s Gaza war is the deadliest for journalists since it began gathering data in 1992.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/79dibe

I am not enjoying all the football.

Many of the most important words that I have worked on either developed key meanings in languages other than English, or went through a complicated and interactive development in a number of major languages

- Keywords, 2nd ed., 1983

I can’t help remembering that three (3) of the biggest celebrity children’s authors were blacking up on tv a while back.

So proud to have a poem in this gorgeous anthology, edited by Hanan Issa🙏And I Hear Dragons is a wonderful collection of poems from diverse Welsh voices that explores themes of identity... & dragons! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 I love every poem & the illustrations by ERIC HEYMAN are stunning 🤩🧵👇

Just announced! Winners of the 2024 English 4 - 11 Picture Book Awards. Congratulations to all the winning authors and illustrators! 💐👏🎉 #picturebooks
booksforkeeps.co.uk/winners-of-202…

The moral I take from the Gove-in-education era is that most senior teachers/advisers/researchers/HMI/professional organisations worked on the basis that education was a place where people advocated for ideas on their worth. The Gove era was about naked power overruling this.

35 anniversary of Do The Right Thing

Morning 👋🏿

Looking forward to hitting the Hay Festival Hay Festival next week for events on
✨Musical World
✨KOFI and the Secret Radio Station

So much fun, joy, and energising conversations await. All welcome, so grab a ticket. #hayfestival

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Darren Chetty What did I do when my kids were given books by these authors in primary school?

I cringed then introduced them to alternatives: Maisie Chan - author/screenwriter (Maisie Chan) Auntie Malorie and jasonreynoldsbooks (Jason Reynolds).

They loved them!

May✨📚✨from 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus Ken Wilson-Max Laura Dockrill Bethan Clarke Anders Frang Rose Lihou Alex T Smith Ferren Gipson Tom Percival Radhika Sanghani Nadine Aisha Jassat (Away) Ben Martynoga Moose Allain Ꙭ SarahJNaughton John Schu Margaret McDonald theguardian.com/books/article/…

The intro is up!!!!! Cannot wait for this book, no matter how many versions I’ve already read: dukeupress.edu/how-we-write-n…
Congrats, quad Jennifer C. Nash !!

“Most people’s lived experience just isn’t something the people who write about politics or aspire to run the country know much about. So we’re going to have 6 weeks of a small group of people talking a lot” ⁦⁦Carys Afoko⁩ looks wearily ahead to the election coverage.

I think we can safely say no other political podcasts utter the phrases 'rumpy pumpy' and 'interracial booking'