There's so little overlap between the educational debates taking place outside the schools sector, and the debates taking place within. Just completely different worlds. And very few - any? - voices within education engaging with or bridging that divide. Not sustainable

I would very gently suggest that if you don’t want people to call your bill an ‘assisted suicide’ bill, don’t propose a bill legalising the assistance of suicide.

The continuing slaughter of Catholics - especially priests - in Nigeria is a scandal and an outrage.

The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil.

Nigeria: Recently we visited the Christians in Yelewata, Benue State who were attacked by Islamists in June. 258 Christians were lost, including women, children and babies – now buried in an unmarked mass grave just feet away from where this photo was taken. These people were

7,000 Christians killed in Nigeria this year 35 per day The latest is Father Matthew Eya, gunned down by two men on a motorbike

Today, yet another mass-murder of Catholics in Africa by Islamists. As usual, there will be no mainstream concern about this, much less what is needed: outrage, condemnation, and immediate, decisive action. How long, Lord?

🇳🇬 This is Deborah Samuel Hundreds of Muslim men in Nigeria dragged her from her room,stoned her and set her on fire because she identified as a Christian in a college WhatsApp group They recorded the murder and laughed as they killed her Western journalists mostly ignored

There’s a genocide happening in Sudan. Men, women, and children are being slaughtered, and the world is silent. No outrage. No mass protests. No hunger strikes. No boycotts. No “actions” on college campuses. Just silence. Deafening, shameful silence. pbs.org/newshour/amp/w…

this is what leadership looks like

The "every kid gets a Chromebook" idea has been a failure. Test scores are down. Screens are bad for learning. Plus kids use school-issued devices to watch streaming services, YouTube, and even porn. My latest in The New York Times: nytimes.com/2025/11/16/opi…

Yes! School phone bans almost always go easier than the adults expect because the students themselves welcome being freed from the trap: “It’s better for us to actually talk to each other.”

Schools should be low tech, high text. Not because tech is bad, but because literacy is the multiplier. Screens split attention; deep reading builds knowledge and comprehension. Books should do the heavy lifting.

GENUINE QUESTION: I completely get why people on the right might support the Assisted Dying Bill but I would someone to explain how anyone even a shade left of centre could countenance it.

The "bill" needs lots of scrutiny because it contained no detail about its own consequences, because the people who "wrote" it knew it would only really affect people they thought were of no consquence.

Don't like the scrutiny of the Assisted Dying"bill"? "Let loose a law, it will do as a dog does - obey its own nature, not yours. Such sense as you have put into the law will be fulfilled. But you will not be able to fulfil anything you have forgotten to put into it." GKC

It's today ...

Friends- This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die. Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence.

One of the most extraordinary pieces of writing about death and love and everything in between

“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.” –Pope Benedict XVI Requiescat In Pace, James Van Der Beek