US president-elect Joe Biden reads the words of Irish poet Seamus Heaney

Here's my response to the decision by the government to go ahead with 135,000 students in colleges sitting exams from tomorrow - they should be cancelled, it's not safe nor is it fair for staff & students aoc.co.uk/news/vocationa…

I'm not surprised that this college has taken matters into its own hands and has postponed exams this vocational week. Will others follow suit? Or will the government u-turn in time to prevent more college leaders from having to make these decisions themselves?

How come teachers in American films and TV are always halfway through a class when the bell rings? Do American teachers never complete lesson plans?

With the switch to online learning, experienced teachers are back to their NQT days of endless lesson planning, says Louise Lewis – so it's vital that we give ourselves a break tes.com/news/i-havent-…

My wife has been teaching online since 8:30am this morning and is now doing Parents Evening until 7:30pm, after this she’ll spend an hour or two lesson planning etc and some would like you to believe that Teachers are sitting at home twiddling their thumbs 🙄

A new grocery store that will help families impacted financially by #covid has opened in #Salford this month wp.me/paf45B-zXS

Just told Ben I always rip out and leave a single strand of hair in every taxi I get in so it could potentially be used as evidence if anything were to happen and he couldn’t believe it . On today’s episode of things I do as a woman that I’ve never thought twice about :

Thanks for the space to try and open the public’s eyes to the human tragedies behind the refugee myths and to expose the doublespeak behind the home secretary’s protestations that her punitive, heartless reforms are for the benefit of the most vulnerable people on earth. #Lies

The Covid-19 Vaccination Bus is at Salford Shopping Centre, M6 5JA this week! 🚌 Weds 18 August 10:30am-6:30pm 🚌 Thurs 19 August 9:30am - 4:30pm orlo.uk/uTR51 Salford Primary Care Together Salford City Council

If education is content delivery, books surely do that just fine. And they’re pedagogical. They provoke discussion. But education is community, listening, collaboration, care. It’s visceral and sometimes ephemeral. The best teachers challenge us and are responsive in the moment.

Just incase anyone is in any doubt. #town #MANCHESTER

Government just defeated by 95 in House of Lords on its sinister move to ban “noisy” protests

•Iceland- 91.8% of workers in a Trade Union. The result- 86% of workers entitled to a 4 day week with no loss of pay. •The UK- only 23.7% of workers in a Trade Union. The result- 900,000 workers on zero hour contracts & over 1ml paid less than the minimum wage. Join a union.

if you watch one thing today make it this

Don’t mind me, just adding possibly one of the worst takes in punditry ever to the timeline Watch and enjoy 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

G'wan, Mick Lynch.

Hey @england, a word from Omid Djalili