Dr Debra Kidd
@debrakidd.bsky.social
Teacher, doctor, author, Leader of Learning and Teaching at the British School of Brussels.
Books: Curriculum of Hope, Teaching Notes from the Frontline, Uncharted Territories and Becoming Mobius. A Pedagogy of Power currently gestating!
Books: Curriculum of Hope, Teaching Notes from the Frontline, Uncharted Territories and Becoming Mobius. A Pedagogy of Power currently gestating!
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💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
💥 NEW: ‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
“He would sidle up to me and growl: ‘Hitler was right,’ or ‘Gas them,’ sometimes adding a long hiss to simulate the sound of the gas showers".
Read on for more...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
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Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Dominic Cummings, in an earlier incarnation, ran a secretly-funded 'think tank' dedicated to attacking the Beeb while Robbie Gibb glided effortlessly from GBNews to the BBC & started lecturing staff on impartiality. Imagine (cos you'll have to) how the 'left-wing' equivalent would be reported.
Riot Women. Happy Valley. Strictly. Sherlock. Line of Duty. Peaky Blinders. Traitors. Race Across the World. Planet Earth. Match of the Day…Are we really going to let the right wing culture wars coup at the BBC news department bring down the whole thing? It’s exactly what they want.
November 11, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Riot Women. Happy Valley. Strictly. Sherlock. Line of Duty. Peaky Blinders. Traitors. Race Across the World. Planet Earth. Match of the Day…Are we really going to let the right wing culture wars coup at the BBC news department bring down the whole thing? It’s exactly what they want.
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Zeeland. What a stunning day.
November 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Zeeland. What a stunning day.
Monschau, Germany. Felt like we'd dropped in to Fairytale Land.
November 8, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Monschau, Germany. Felt like we'd dropped in to Fairytale Land.
This is a superb thread that captures and explains the frustrations many of us feel, but did not/could not articulate as well as this. 👏 Bravo.
The 2025 Curriculum and Assessment Review Final Report was meant to “build a world-class curriculum for all.” In reality, it signals something quite different: the closure of curriculum reform in England. 🧵
November 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
This is a superb thread that captures and explains the frustrations many of us feel, but did not/could not articulate as well as this. 👏 Bravo.
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Manchester economy thrives as other UK cities face growth challenges, Oxford Economics finds. www.business-live.co.uk/economic-dev...
Manchester economy thrives as UK cities face growth challenges
A new report praises Manchester's city centre growth and knowledge firms and argues 'nowhere has the productivity slowdown been more apparent than in London'
www.business-live.co.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Manchester economy thrives as other UK cities face growth challenges, Oxford Economics finds. www.business-live.co.uk/economic-dev...
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>> A diagnostic alternative to ks1 #maths tests that help establish what KS1 children know and can do: atm.org.uk/news/ks1-tas...
KS1 Tasks not Tests
atm.org.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
>> A diagnostic alternative to ks1 #maths tests that help establish what KS1 children know and can do: atm.org.uk/news/ks1-tas...
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Zohran Mamdani in New York
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
November 5, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Zohran Mamdani in New York
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
Catherine Connolly in Ireland
Rob Jetten in the Netherlands
Plaid Cymru in Caerphilly
The rise of the far right is not inevitable.
If we work together, we can dare to hope.
Bit depressing really that the end result of a wholescale curriculum review is "we'll have a bit more oracy and loads more tests." Where is the vision and ambition?
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Bit depressing really that the end result of a wholescale curriculum review is "we'll have a bit more oracy and loads more tests." Where is the vision and ambition?
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Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care
Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Good to see Bradford showing the little fascist Matt Goodman the door on #BBCQT - is it too much to hope that people are starting to wake up?
October 30, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Good to see Bradford showing the little fascist Matt Goodman the door on #BBCQT - is it too much to hope that people are starting to wake up?
I guess they take the online safety and wellbeing of young people seriously here.
A 25-year-old TikTok influencer from Ghent has been sentenced to 60 hours of community service for posting a video that mocked a 13-year-old girl's appearance.
Belgian TikTok influencer sentenced to community service for humiliating 13-year-old girl online
Belgian TikTok influencer sentenced to community service for humiliating 13-year-old girl online
www.brusselstimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
I guess they take the online safety and wellbeing of young people seriously here.
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Heads up for #earlyyears peeps and all those interested in #maths and young children
My new book due for publication May/June 2026
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My new book due for publication May/June 2026
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
September 15, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Heads up for #earlyyears peeps and all those interested in #maths and young children
My new book due for publication May/June 2026
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
My new book due for publication May/June 2026
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I'm tired of seeing discredited metaphors like 'architecture' and 'computer' to describe how the brain works. This description of the human brain is so very limited and lacking in complexity, creativity or even accuracy, that the pedagogy that is claimed to serve it must be equally flawed.
October 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I'm tired of seeing discredited metaphors like 'architecture' and 'computer' to describe how the brain works. This description of the human brain is so very limited and lacking in complexity, creativity or even accuracy, that the pedagogy that is claimed to serve it must be equally flawed.
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I will never understand why this doesn’t make more people quit X.
Elon Musk is funding Tommy Robinson's court battles, along with other online fans to keep him in Bentleys
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...
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www.telegraph.co.uk
October 13, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I will never understand why this doesn’t make more people quit X.
What are the chances that if the question were the other way round, the answer would be a resounding yes from Express readers?
Would be a shame if this Daily Express poll didn't go the way they hoped...
Vote here 👉 xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
Vote here 👉 xd.wayin.com/display/cont...
October 12, 2025 at 2:21 PM
What are the chances that if the question were the other way round, the answer would be a resounding yes from Express readers?
Our Year 2 children understand this.
I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer
Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Our Year 2 children understand this.
It's astonishing to anyone who lived through the 80s, that the Labour party now sit to the right of Tory grandee Heseltine.
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
“Because that’s what they are”
@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.
#Newsnight
October 7, 2025 at 6:19 PM
It's astonishing to anyone who lived through the 80s, that the Labour party now sit to the right of Tory grandee Heseltine.
Book Week next week and we're welcoming Matt Goodfellow, Katya Balen, Liz Million, Paddy Donnelly, Leo Timmers and Nathalie Dieterlé into school to work with our children. What an amazing end to this half term.
October 7, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Book Week next week and we're welcoming Matt Goodfellow, Katya Balen, Liz Million, Paddy Donnelly, Leo Timmers and Nathalie Dieterlé into school to work with our children. What an amazing end to this half term.
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Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
Kemi Badenoch claiming Terry Pratchett as her favourite author is wild
October 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.
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