James Murphy
@jamespmurphy.bsky.social
Teaching, learning and behaviour. Director at Thinking Reading. Working with secondary schools to eradicate illiteracy.
Web: thinkingreading.com
Web: thinkingreading.com
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The man last time rocking the small white coffin of his baby — murdered by a precise russian missile strike in Ternopil.
The men having power to bring real peace and punish the aggressor — choosing instead to punish the victim, pushing Ukraine toward capitulation.
Two worlds.
The men having power to bring real peace and punish the aggressor — choosing instead to punish the victim, pushing Ukraine toward capitulation.
Two worlds.
November 23, 2025 at 2:19 PM
The man last time rocking the small white coffin of his baby — murdered by a precise russian missile strike in Ternopil.
The men having power to bring real peace and punish the aggressor — choosing instead to punish the victim, pushing Ukraine toward capitulation.
Two worlds.
The men having power to bring real peace and punish the aggressor — choosing instead to punish the victim, pushing Ukraine toward capitulation.
Two worlds.
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Brave, beautiful Georgia! 🇬🇪
Today marks 22 years since the Rose Revolution - the day that reshaped Georgia for the better and saved the country, at least for my generation. I will be forever grateful and will continue to fight for its values.
November 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Brave, beautiful Georgia! 🇬🇪
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My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories.
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
November 22, 2025 at 5:20 PM
My little girls (now big girls!), adopted from foster care, arrived with few possessions - but each had been given a box of books by @booktrust.org.uk. These books, read together, became our first shared memories.
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
Spread the joy of reading with a donation:
donate.booktrust.org.uk/Xmas3/~my-do...
🙄 Oh well, at least we got the lies out there first, that’s the main thing.
Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social
November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
🙄 Oh well, at least we got the lies out there first, that’s the main thing.
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It's unsurprising Trump is trying again to blackmail Ukraine into surrender. Keep in mind that Ukrainians have always been clear-eyed about the fickleness of the US as an ally. Ukraine has never been a US proxy. It fights for its independence and sovereignty and a US betrayal won't change that.
November 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
It's unsurprising Trump is trying again to blackmail Ukraine into surrender. Keep in mind that Ukrainians have always been clear-eyed about the fickleness of the US as an ally. Ukraine has never been a US proxy. It fights for its independence and sovereignty and a US betrayal won't change that.
Finally, a thread on Bluesky that warns the soul.
Reading Prince Caspian and wondering about what it must have been like there after Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy just vanished.
November 15, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Finally, a thread on Bluesky that warns the soul.
Apropos for today
Dear Auntie
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.
November 13, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Apropos for today
Wow. Mesmerising!
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Wow. Mesmerising!
Hamlet quite for today:
‘Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth overwhelm them to men’s eyes.’
‘Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth overwhelm them to men’s eyes.’
November 13, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Hamlet quite for today:
‘Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth overwhelm them to men’s eyes.’
‘Foul deeds will rise, though all the earth overwhelm them to men’s eyes.’
With . . . What? Feelings?
JD Vance: "Science as practiced in its best form is that if you disagree with it, then you ought to criticize it and you ought to argue against it."
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
With . . . What? Feelings?
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A sloppy editing job is poor form and bad journalism, but let’s stop pretending the BBC in any way was misleading viewers or undermining Trump’s character by creating an untrue narrative.
November 12, 2025 at 12:42 PM
A sloppy editing job is poor form and bad journalism, but let’s stop pretending the BBC in any way was misleading viewers or undermining Trump’s character by creating an untrue narrative.
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NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
emptycity.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
The letter the BBC could send back to Trump
A proposal for a reply to his $1bn claim
By me. Enjoy.
emptycity.substack.com/p/the-letter...
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What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
November 12, 2025 at 9:52 AM
What the husband @mjowen174.bsky.social says is true.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
It’s been a bit quiet in my shop lately.
If you’re looking for #Christmas cards and gifts please have a look at my website.
gailmyerscough.co.uk
A repost would be lovely too.
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Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
November 10, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Happy 56th anniversary to “Sesame Street,” which made its broadcast debut #OnThisDay in 1969.
Pithy summary
Beyond the convictions for violence, the fraud, bankruptcy and racism, the man is remarkably stupid
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Pithy summary
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"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
November 8, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"Seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate" was mostly unspecified magic fairy pixie bullshit then, and it's not going to get any more realistic in the hands of a bunch of Reform clowns who don't know how anything works, don't care to learn and disdain anyone that might.
Great to know Trump is still moving. That’s great. Very reassuring. Soon they’ll be reassuring us he’s breathing.
Duffy: "Can I make one other point about POTUS before we're out of time? I have never seen someone work so hard. All day long he's moving, he's meeting, he's thinking. Dinners he's usually meeting with people. And then at night he's still on the phone calling people! He doesn't stop. He's a machine"
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Great to know Trump is still moving. That’s great. Very reassuring. Soon they’ll be reassuring us he’s breathing.
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Brilliant - and a warning
Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the…
braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the…
braddelong.substack.com/p/bidenomics...
Bidenomics: Truly Transitory Inflation, Remarkably Successful on Employment & Growth—But Unable to Break Through the Media Misinformation Machine
My attempt to set forth a balance sheet: Bidenomics was an extraordinary success. The economy healed fast; the story never did. A brief moderate transitory inflation. A long and strong jobs and...
braddelong.substack.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Brilliant - and a warning
Notable
What does an email sent in error by Wales' schools inspectorate tell us about how it believes reading should be taught?
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www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
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www.itv.com/news/2025-11...
www.itv.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Notable
This is why history teachers are so important. This poor man thinks that unless you’re descended from fourth and fifth century immigrants, you’re not English.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
🔴Nigel Farage’s Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
The party’s candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon ‘lineage’ and attacked ‘third world cultures’ in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com/2025/11/05/n...
Nigel Farage's Chosen Reform Mayoral Candidate Suggested Black Britons Can’t Be English
The party's candidate for Mayor of Doncaster claimed being English requires Anglo-Saxon 'lineage' and attacked 'third world cultures' in now-deleted posts
bylinetimes.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:45 PM
This is why history teachers are so important. This poor man thinks that unless you’re descended from fourth and fifth century immigrants, you’re not English.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
If only they’d studied the Norman Conquest at his school, he’d know you have to be a descendant of French Vikings.
Also, journalists should watch for who stops clapping first when the PM gives a speech. That’s where the real news is.
November 5, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Also, journalists should watch for who stops clapping first when the PM gives a speech. That’s where the real news is.
This is so grim. apple.news/AYGSac6XNSWu...
Why are Alaska’s rivers turning bright orange? Scientists have a theory. — National Geographic
The dramatic shift is a warning sign—and scientists say the changes that aren't yet visible to the naked eye are just as troubling.
apple.news
November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM
This is so grim. apple.news/AYGSac6XNSWu...
Astounding.
This story reads like a blockbuster movie script. But this is not a movie, this is real life and real people.
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
#Ukrainian soldiers from the 1st Medical Battalion, using a ground robot, evacuated a wounded Defender from a Russian-controlled settlement.
📹: 1st Medical Battalion
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Astounding.
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Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
November 2, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Great investigation of the Nazis, racists and criminals mobilising the flag-on-lamp-posts movement. This is the kind of journalism that the national media could and should have conducted:
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...
manchestermill.co.uk/the-men-who-...