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As I noted yesterday, I am sympathetic to the overall purpose of the XR movement.  How can you not be?  I'm not quite sold on their aims, though.  These are: – 1. The Government must tell the truth about the...

Did you take part in the XR protest last week?  Were you there telling it as it is?  Did you sit, devoted, at the feet of Emma Thomson in Oxford Circus as she told her forgiving fans how there was...

This comes from the activist, healer, radical intersectionalist poet who is "selfless and brave", @TitaniaMcGrath "When women are valued more than men, then and only then will we have achieved true equality." Inspiring.  I hope this keeps you going over...

If you click here you will find Motion 8 which was passed at the National Education Union [NEU] conference the other day.  Actually, you will find the motion and lots of amendments and so it's not clear just what was agreed...

This is the lengthy response to Amanda Spielman, Ofsted Chief Inspector from the English Learning for Sustainability Alliance [ELSA].  I'm posting it here as I cannot find it on-line and the authors asked for maximum publicity.   Dear Ms Spielman (and copied...

Many congratulations to Zamzam Ibrahim on her election as the next NUS president.  I know Zamzam from her chairing of the NUS sustainability working group that I sit on.   It's good to see another sustainability supporter elected to NUS's highest office,...

I missed the social media kerfuffle over the death of a young turtle the other day – but then I missed seeing the BBC programme as well as I don't watch wildlife programmes (they peaked for me with Hans and...

I've been trying to read the responses from 'the environment / environmental education sector' to Ofsted's consultation seeking views on its proposals for changes to the education inspection framework from September 2019. I note that the response from the Green Schools Project (click here.) is...

Today's text is a message sent to the SHED-SHARE Maillist by two academic colleagues: Steve Martin & Stephen Sterling. As far as I can see it stimulated little discussion.   Colleagues, As many of us know our unsustainable lifestyles and...

The US Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Court of St James, the Hon Woody 'Woodpecker' Johnson, has put the genetically-modified cat amongst the chlorine-washed pigeons by insisting that in any post-Brexit trade deal between UK and Uncle Sam all...