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Pam Jarvis

@drpam.bsky.social

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#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · Aug 31

‘Imaginative storytelling & unexpected plotlines top off a brilliant read. Someone needs to make a movie!

‘If you, like me, are not quite sure where humanity is heading, and how that relates to the past, I guarantee you will love this book.’

5* ‘On Time for Eco’ amzn.eu/d/fNlanMa

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 12h

This. And not simplistic at all.

sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 13h

I’m sure people will tell me I’m being simplistic, but imagine what £280k a year could do to support those kids’ families of origin, and maybe they wouldn’t have to go into care in the first place…

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Skipai Otter @skipai.bsky.social · 13h

UK Gov probably be. "But we need to stay competitive and make profit."

It's a medical service, what sort of profits you looking for here? Just put someone in charge that knows what they're doing and stop employing someone that doesn't but has huge wage demands.

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sophiacollins.bsky.social @sophiacollins.bsky.social · 13h

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 15h

And let’s not forget the enormous wages of the CEOs and business managers in the NHS, social care, and in England, Multi Academy Trusts (MATs). Why should such institutions even need business managers? 🤯

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Dotair Raibeart 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺 @raibeart.bsky.social · 15h

‘Households across UK are paying a vast “privatisation premium” to access essential services. According to our estimates, the public have funded almost £200bn in dividends to the shareholders of the privatised water, energy and transport companies’
#Tories #Labour.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

This is a must watch for #teachers #EduSky www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Storyville - Mr Nobody Against Putin

A Storyville documentary that follows a Russian schoolteacher as he risks everything to expose rising militarism in his classroom.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

It seems pretty obvious to me, from evidence emerging from the Duke & Duchess of York (neither one the sharpest knife in the box) that Epstein was a manipulator & blackmailer; he’d get something ‘on’ an influential person & then pull the ropes. So why is the issue seldom discussed in this context?

New Epstein email lands Prince Andrew in muddy water… again | LBC

YouTube video by LBC

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1d

This is interesting. The boomers finding a voice & a confidence that comes from hugely outnumbering other generations, contrasted with elders who survived 2 major wars, now facing the final war with mortality they won’t win. Have you got the whole paper? Here’s a visual blast from that past…

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Dr Helen J Williams 🇪🇺🇵🇸 @helenjwc.bsky.social · 2d

How do we feel about this? @oaknational.bsky.social receive £43m of public money and yet, wait for it, they are charging via MEI £135 per teacher for a course on how to use their materials: mei.org.uk/event/b935a0...

Event - MEI

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Mr D Brian @dbrian2.bsky.social · 2d

Shades of this: vm.tiktok.com/ZNdWutNCe/

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Yes but only because it suited a lot of key players to look the other way, then and now. Trails like this suggest that many elements were farcical.

The Russia connection: defying gravity, reality … and treason?

Why is Gavin Williamson being given a knighthood now? A chain of events with a Russian connection might explain this baffling decision

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

📌Imagine how different the optics would be if Joe Biden shut down the United States Government, fired workers, jeopardized healthcare, ordered troops into our streets, threatened NATO allies, and then escaped to Israel looking for people to kiss his ass.

He'd be endlessly pilloried by the press.

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Reform -capital R!

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

It’s so depressing. And it’s one of the issues driving people towards reform.

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Steve @stephenh.bsky.social · 2d

Now you see why the current “misconduct in public office” offence is a waste of time.
No one in public office is going to start prosecuting an Offence that promotes accountability from their peers

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Bradley Hillier-Smith @bradleyhsmith.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote this piece, based on my research, for The Independent @IndyVoices on the record number of homeless deaths.

I argue homelessness and these deaths are entirely avoidable such that neither should be an accepted feature of our social landscapes.

www.independent.co.uk/voices/homel...

Homeless deaths hit a record high last year – and every one of them was preventable

Britain’s housing crisis is not just a policy failure but a moral one, says Bradley Hillier-Smith. When we treat the homeless as ‘nuisances’ and ‘pests’, we deny their humanity – and our own

www.independent.co.uk

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 2d

I despise the whole concept of the way you are treated in all kinds of circumstances, law-breaking, financial & employment opportunities etc being dependent on who you know. (Partly because I have never known anybody who could give me an advantage I suppose).
And yet we insist we are a meritocracy

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Have the police turned up to interview this man under caution? No? Anyone spot a pattern emerging here?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

Fair point.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

It might actually be quicker to go through the list of senior ministers 2001-25 and tick off the ones that aren’t directly implicated in horrifying war crimes.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

One of the things I find most upsetting about the current position of the US is that after studying its constitution, I was convinced it had retained the best of Britain, whilst removing the worse. Then 250 years later, we managed to eject 2 rogue PMs, while a rogue US president has come to this. 😭

Jim Brown @jimbrown.bsky.social · 3d

America has #NoKings 🚫👑

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2d

But if evidence emerges that someone on the breadline has filled in a form wrong, they have to pay it back and they will be arrested if it looks like it may be intentional. This is outrageous. So arrest him, and interview him under caution.

Boris Johnson breached rules designed to stop abuse of contacts made in public office, watchdog finds

Johnson found to have breached rules after refusing to answer specific questions about allegations published by the Guardian

www.theguardian.com

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 3d

It might actually be quicker to go through the list of senior ministers 2001-25 and tick off the ones that aren’t directly implicated in horrifying war crimes.

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Jim Brown @jimbrown.bsky.social · 3d

America has #NoKings 🚫👑

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Sam Bright @writesbright.bsky.social · 3d

It’s time that Russia’s malign influence on British politics was properly investigated.

Agree? Add your name 👇🏻

It’s time for a REAL Russia report

Putin’s fingerprints are all over our politics. It’s time to prove it.

writesbright.substack.com

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

There are many other reasons for the right wing (in general) to be very interested in state education.

Education MATters: exploring England’s state school industry

Conservatives claim the academisation of schools as one of their greatest achievements. But do the figures stack up?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 3d

Good point, we had a thriving youth work BA where I worked 2007-13, in a cash-strapped northern city. I helped to write and validate a progression MA but it never really took off due to these massive cuts, which never made national headlines.

Britain's youth clubs have been quietly decimated. What's most revealing is that few seem to care | John Harris

These vital spaces have been the first targets of cuts in a nation that favours age over youth – despite being the remedy for blights such as social division, polarisation and loneliness, says Guardia...

www.theguardian.com

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Robert Reiner @waylon18.bsky.social · 4d

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/10...
Farage’s war isn’t with Marxism in education. It’s with the values of Judaea Christianity - love the stranger etc. This really does inspire the many empathetic educators

Nigel Farage’s declaration of war on teachers is a war on compassion, empathy and kindness

According to The Guardian, Nigel Farage, speaking at an event at a private Christian college in Michigan, USA, has accused teachers in the UK of “poisoning our kids” and predicted that they would go o...

www.taxresearch.org.uk

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 4d

…they also had to carefully consider how Trump was going to react if he didn’t get it. He can do a lot of harm to weaker nations (which is pretty much everyone else). He seems to be turning his sights inwards onto his own nation at the moment though, while all others play ‘don’t poke the bear.’

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 4d

It is, but nations move slowly. The best analogy I can think of is Margaret Thatcher vs totalitarian. I think in that case a Maggie T democracy would be better than dictatorship. Depends if she wants to be a dictator or not if she got into the seat. It’s a compromise and I think a balance was struck

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 4d

Are there any aspiring or developing fiction writers out there who’d like to have a look at/ join in conversation in my free to access ‘sandbox’ blog? I’ve published in the academic arena for nearly 25 years, but only started writing fiction in lockdown. Lots of fun - and frustration!

Writing fiction: Characters, Storylines and Believability

Someone asked me recently- how do I develop the characters and storylines in my novels? It was something I hadn’t systematically analysed, but on reflection, I realise that my process is highly rhi…

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