What’s right for the Left?
I recommend Dave Middleton’s blog post Towards Peace and Justice about the recent initiative from Jeremy Corbyn to establish The Project For Peace and Justice. Like Dave I welcome this…
Grow Your Own Poem 2
When I started reading Kate Clanchy’s How to Grow Your Own Poem I got the idea that I could work through it, reading the poems and writing my own. And…
Covid Vaccines “A rare success”
With the exception of the anti-vaxxers and the Covid deniers, most of us will surely welcome the success of the vaccine programme. It is rare success for a government that…
Stanton Family Christmas Newsletter 2020
A personal post for a change. Because our family and friends are spread around the world Dee puts together a Christmas newsletter every year. If you are on our Christmas…
Grow Your Own Poem 1
Kate Clanchy has written another marvellous book. Following the success of Some kids I taught and what they taught me, which thoroughly deserved its Orwell Prize, she has shown what…
Is the Beeb Biased?
I’ve been trying to think of a way to show that often, when someone attacks the BBC or other broadcasters for not being impartial it’s really because it’s saying something…
A Covid Retrospective – In the beginning
We all strive to live in the present. Perhaps more than ever before, because of the information revolution and the growth of social media, we are the now generation. The…
Leading Questions for Kier Starmer
UNITY Starmer won the Labour leadership on a simple platform. He was the unity candidate. Corbyn’s leadership had been marked by division that had played badly with voters. This was…
Ten Steps Toward creating a Successful Learning Environment
The Covid crisis has been hard for all of us, children especially. And none more so than autistic children who need their routines and, if they are amongst the lucky…
COVID-19 and Air Travel
There have been a lot of comments on social media about continuing flights into British airports, particularly Heathrow. The prevailing wisdom on Twitter seems to be that thousands of people…