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Hardest working man in teaching. Lead Practitioner in English. Book reading quiz teaming woke art lover. He/him. #Booksky #Edusky Book stuff: whatareyoureadingfor.wordpress.com
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This is the last thing the BBC needs

submitted 12 hours ago • 149 comments

I’m actually tempted to take this as a provocation for the next issue of Teaching Shakespeare/ our teacher day in the autumn. If you’d be interested, please get in touch via dm #teamenglish @gcse-macbeth.bsky.social @benniekara.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @engmediacentre.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

If anyone can get further away from understanding the point of reading a book than this chancer, I'd love to see it.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

George Orwell wrote in 1941:

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

#NoKings

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The best post is book post. #Booksky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

submitted 3 days ago • 92 comments

Stood in the Eurostar queue with Dominic West.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Happy weekend all. Stay frosty.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Okay, here's mine: Iain Banks Ed McBain Mick Herron Stephen King Terry Pratchett Georges Simenon Philip Kerr Douglas Adams Raymond Chandler Martin Amis

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Note from some of my ex-Y11s. Not entirely sure how I feel about it.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

RIP Frederick Forsythe, another of my gateway authors. I read most of his books as a teen - great exposition.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Book 26 of 2025. Well,this was quite a ride: author uses ChatGPT to write a novel, which goes just as well as you might expect. #Booksky

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

I don't hang out with fascists in real life, why would I do so on social media?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

And then we got the call... So I'm spending today on the sofa, after a ridiculously demanding week. Half-term feels like a long time ago.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Best thing you’ll watch today.

submitted 9 days ago • 5 comments

This work was painted at Gerald Gardiner’s home in Gloucestershire in the mid 1930s and is a good example of his depiction of a night-time scene, showing the light, the reflections and shadows cast by the gas lamp and fire as his wife, Evelyn contentedly, reads a book.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

It's trash. Stop using it.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Hamlet: To be, or not to be? Badenoch: Well, you tell me. You're the one asking the question.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments