TeacherCath
@teachercath.bsky.social
Retired junior school headteacher, real ale lover and mezzo soprano, Southerner who defected North. All views my own etc…
This is a beautiful thread and resonates. A lot.
Thank you❤️
Thank you❤️
On this day eight years ago, my dearest Dad died at home of bowel cancer.
His death was a good as it can possibly be - cocooned within the love of his wife, children and grandchildren, with his symptoms palliated beautifully. 🧵
His death was a good as it can possibly be - cocooned within the love of his wife, children and grandchildren, with his symptoms palliated beautifully. 🧵
December 26, 2025 at 11:51 AM
This is a beautiful thread and resonates. A lot.
Thank you❤️
Thank you❤️
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We in Britain inhabit a society that believes, collectively, in treating patients in need - irrespective of their ability to pay.
How simple and decent and profoundly kind is that?
My Dad gave his heart and soul to his NHS patients because he cared.
It’s why I’m a doctor today.
How simple and decent and profoundly kind is that?
My Dad gave his heart and soul to his NHS patients because he cared.
It’s why I’m a doctor today.
December 26, 2025 at 9:57 AM
We in Britain inhabit a society that believes, collectively, in treating patients in need - irrespective of their ability to pay.
How simple and decent and profoundly kind is that?
My Dad gave his heart and soul to his NHS patients because he cared.
It’s why I’m a doctor today.
How simple and decent and profoundly kind is that?
My Dad gave his heart and soul to his NHS patients because he cared.
It’s why I’m a doctor today.
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The NHS is flawed and failing, the product of decades of underfunding, understaffing, outsourcing and the leaching of funds into private ‘providers’ hands.
But it is still a jewel in the UK’s crown - the embodiment of something vital and profound.
But it is still a jewel in the UK’s crown - the embodiment of something vital and profound.
December 26, 2025 at 9:56 AM
The NHS is flawed and failing, the product of decades of underfunding, understaffing, outsourcing and the leaching of funds into private ‘providers’ hands.
But it is still a jewel in the UK’s crown - the embodiment of something vital and profound.
But it is still a jewel in the UK’s crown - the embodiment of something vital and profound.
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25 December 1943 | The number of prisoners within the Auschwitz camp system was 86,920: 56,696 men and 30,324 women. 19,061 prisoners were in camp hospitals (11,039 men and 8,042 women).
Online lesson about the most important aspects of the history of Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
Online lesson about the most important aspects of the history of Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
December 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
25 December 1943 | The number of prisoners within the Auschwitz camp system was 86,920: 56,696 men and 30,324 women. 19,061 prisoners were in camp hospitals (11,039 men and 8,042 women).
Online lesson about the most important aspects of the history of Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
Online lesson about the most important aspects of the history of Auschwitz: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_1/
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Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Donate to Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025, organized by Rhodri Marsden
Unbelievably, it's the 15th year of this thing.
What is it?
Improbably, the nig… Rhodri Marsden needs your support for Duvet Know It's Christmas, 2025
www.gofundme.com
December 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
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Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
December 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Per @garretthaake.bsky.social, the extremely tacky "presidential wall of fame" that lines the colonnade to the West Wing now has obviously-Trump-penned plaques insulting or praising the presidents.
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Thou shalt not declare war to distract from the Epstein files! It won’t work, you prick.
Donold, you will get what is coming to you, you evil bastard.
Donold, you will get what is coming to you, you evil bastard.
Thou Shalt Not Declare War To Distract From The Epstein Files
It's beginning to look like a war on Christmas…
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 17, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Thou shalt not declare war to distract from the Epstein files! It won’t work, you prick.
Donold, you will get what is coming to you, you evil bastard.
Donold, you will get what is coming to you, you evil bastard.
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You don’t say?
Shocking.
Shocking.
December 17, 2025 at 9:00 PM
You don’t say?
Shocking.
Shocking.
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🔴GB News Accused of ‘Circling the Wagons’ to Downplay Nigel Farage Racism Scandal Engulfing Their Star Presenter
The Reform UK leader is being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to present shows on the channel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/g...
The Reform UK leader is being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to present shows on the channel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/g...
GB News Accused of ‘Circling the Wagons’ to Downplay Nigel Farage Racism Scandal Engulfing Their Star Presenter
The Reform UK leader is being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to present shows on the channel
bylinetimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🔴GB News Accused of ‘Circling the Wagons’ to Downplay Nigel Farage Racism Scandal Engulfing Their Star Presenter
The Reform UK leader is being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to present shows on the channel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/g...
The Reform UK leader is being paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to present shows on the channel
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/05/g...
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Okay, so, what I’m reading here is that racism is completely fine - as long as it’s done in a non-malicious way.
Notwithstanding the fact that racism is in and of itself filled with malice.
That’s the nature of racism.
For fuck’s sake.
Notwithstanding the fact that racism is in and of itself filled with malice.
That’s the nature of racism.
For fuck’s sake.
December 5, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Okay, so, what I’m reading here is that racism is completely fine - as long as it’s done in a non-malicious way.
Notwithstanding the fact that racism is in and of itself filled with malice.
That’s the nature of racism.
For fuck’s sake.
Notwithstanding the fact that racism is in and of itself filled with malice.
That’s the nature of racism.
For fuck’s sake.
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The Trump National Security Strategy is bonkers in many ways but this objective stood out:
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
December 5, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The Trump National Security Strategy is bonkers in many ways but this objective stood out:
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
"Cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations"
Making their strategy of supporting radical right and extremist parties explicit.
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Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Mark Kelly, "When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts"
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‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
Rachel Reeves says there’s a “hole” in the public finances.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
A new decade-long Brexit study explains it:
a 6–8% hit to GDP – that's £180bn-£240bn a year – means less tax, less investment and less money for everything else.
Brexit made Britain poorer. Much poorer.
New: Boris Johnson’s ‘Brexit Titanic success’ was half right
Nearly ten years on, the first full assessment of Brexit confirms what millions warned: Britain made itself poorer
eastangliabylines.co.uk
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
‘Brexit isn’t in the past. It is present in every overstretched council budget, every cancelled infrastructure project, every school without enough teachers, every struggling business wondering how to cope with higher costs and lower demand.’
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X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 6:36 PM
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
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"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Yorkshire Water: it’s time to end the rip-off
Handing the company back to local people would return both control and value to those who need it most
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 7:37 PM
"Yorkshire Water was privatised in 1989 under the Water Act, launched debt-free and promoted as the start of a new, efficient era.
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
Today, the company carries almost £7bn in debt...."
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The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
November 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The Covid Inquiry finds that if Boris Johnson had called the first lockdown even one week earlier then it could have saved at least 20,000 lives.
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
Here's a quick reminder of what Johnson was actually doing during those weeks
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😭 gosh. This is a terrible statistic, never let us forget how bad the Tories were.
Bringing in lockdown a week earlier on 16 March would have meant 23,000 fewer deaths in England in the first wave, modelling suggests. This would have equated to 48% fewer deaths in the first wave.
November 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
😭 gosh. This is a terrible statistic, never let us forget how bad the Tories were.
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Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Boris Johnson's lack of leadership blamed for 23,000 Covid deaths
A scathing report by inquiry chair Baroness Hallett also criticises the Department of Health, led by the current Cabinet Secretary Sir Chris Wormald and the then minister Matt Hancock
inews.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Boris Johnson’s lack of leadership over the seriousness of Covid led to the first lockdown being introduced too late, which contributed to the loss of 23,000 lives, the official inquiry into his handling of the pandemic has concluded
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
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45% of British voters are strongly opposed to Reform, and 33% favourable to Reform.
71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform.
And immigration has fallen 50% in a year.
What possible reason is there for this mess?
71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform.
And immigration has fallen 50% in a year.
What possible reason is there for this mess?
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
45% of British voters are strongly opposed to Reform, and 33% favourable to Reform.
71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform.
And immigration has fallen 50% in a year.
What possible reason is there for this mess?
71% of 2025 Labour voters are strongly opposed to Reform.
And immigration has fallen 50% in a year.
What possible reason is there for this mess?
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Or what Labour voters have to say about these matters.
So if you're not doing it for Reform voters, and you're not doing it for Labour voters ... who the fuck are you doing it for?
So if you're not doing it for Reform voters, and you're not doing it for Labour voters ... who the fuck are you doing it for?
Green MP Carla Denyer accuses Shabana Mahmood of trying to "out Reform Reform" and says "toxic racist narratives and the scapegoating of migrants" are to blame for "tearing our country apart" not migrants.
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
Mahmood: "I couldn't care less what any other political party has to say about these matters"
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Or what Labour voters have to say about these matters.
So if you're not doing it for Reform voters, and you're not doing it for Labour voters ... who the fuck are you doing it for?
So if you're not doing it for Reform voters, and you're not doing it for Labour voters ... who the fuck are you doing it for?
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Pastors arrested and shot with chemical weapons by secret police every single week.
Take a good, long look.
Let it sink in.
This is Trump’s America.
Take a good, long look.
Let it sink in.
This is Trump’s America.
November 15, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Pastors arrested and shot with chemical weapons by secret police every single week.
Take a good, long look.
Let it sink in.
This is Trump’s America.
Take a good, long look.
Let it sink in.
This is Trump’s America.
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GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Trumplethinskin Goes After the BBC - Because Facts Keep Hurting His Feelings
The man who demanded people "fight like hell" now insists the real injury was a slightly compressed quote on Panorama.
www.bearlypolitics.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 9:48 AM
GB News hosting Trumplethinskin so he can have a fannywobble about Panorama is the most utterly deranged media crossover of the year and is absolutely peak 2025.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
Reader Discretion - I went sweary.
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Trump is throwing a tantrum tonight, demanding “voter reform.” What does that even mean? He wants to stop Americans from voting because when we do, like we did tonight, we create a blue wave 🌊.
November 5, 2025 at 5:12 AM
Trump is throwing a tantrum tonight, demanding “voter reform.” What does that even mean? He wants to stop Americans from voting because when we do, like we did tonight, we create a blue wave 🌊.
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So, first skim reading of the curriculum and assessment review and despite several mentions of the need not to increase volume... There are plenty of examples of adding new content and I can only find one of removing anything - and that's GPS where the caveat is increasing the stakes of the test
November 5, 2025 at 7:41 AM
So, first skim reading of the curriculum and assessment review and despite several mentions of the need not to increase volume... There are plenty of examples of adding new content and I can only find one of removing anything - and that's GPS where the caveat is increasing the stakes of the test
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The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.
November 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
The online baying mob shouting "Vote Reform" after Saturday's train stabbing attack may wish to note that not a single Reform MP has turned up for the Home Secretary's statement on the incident.