E.C. White
@IdleConcern
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Mostly recovered DPhil in English Lit on John Milton; teacher of English; often beer and sometimes books and always dad of 2; close (marital) proximity to CofE.
Oxford, England
Joined August 2013
A weird thing to say. Duty to whom?
Doing his duty.
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You don't need this AI shite. You don't need poppy mascots. You don't need the creeping, shaming craze to pin the poppy earlier and earlier in the calendar. Donate to @PoppyLegion. Read a poem. Go to Remembrance commemorations. Visit a veteran or a veteran's widow or orphan.
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Ahem. Advent music permitted in Advent. Christmas music permitted during Christmas, which, as any fule no, is from Christmas Day until Twelfth Night (at the very least).
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Absolutely agree with this - I type this onto my handheld screen, tripping slightly over rough ground. I dread the thought of permitting my children smartphones whilst I emote via an app owned by an oligarch psychopath. The grown ups have a problem.
One thing I'll add – which is just my perspective rather than a data thing – is our reluctance to attribute this problem to phones does feel like an adult problem where we aren't doing enough to manage (or admit!) our own screen addiction, which is where I think this has to start
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With a top team of Chris Philp, Priti Patel and Robert Jenrick how can the Tories fail to charm their way back to power.
Here’s the full Badenoch shadow cabinet. Tom Tugendhat, like James Cleverly, is another leadership contender heading to the backbenches ·Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer: Mel Stride MP ·Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs: Dame Priti
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Can anybody conflirm whether Joseph Stalin's agenda for liquidating the Kulaks did include provision to pass on about £2 million tax-free (£1 million each for property/farm) before seeking a contribution to public finances if more than that was being passed across generations?
So many bad things in the Budget but the attack on family farms is Stalinist. Really Stalinist.
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'And what does it get spent on?' he asks. Uh, the billions in subsidies and government contracts that launched your companies?
Elon Musk: Let the people keep more of their hard-earned money! “You get taxed on what you earn, you get taxed on what you buy, and you get taxed on what you own. Taxes, taxes, taxes. And then, what does it get spent on? A bunch of the stuff it gets spent on you don't even
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Bond market is such a little baby. Waa waa we don’t like uncosted tax cuts. Waa waa we don’t like costed public spending. Grow up
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In 2013, I wrote a book about educational myths. I *didn't* include learning styles. Why? Because even in 2013, so much research had already been published showing they were bunk. Didn't feel worth me going over it all again. It's now 2024. What's in @TheEconomist ?
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😥 38... My hairline hasn't receded that far, though, so it could be even worse.
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Your income from work won't be taxed more. Your income from capital will. It's a shift in favour of labour. Why ever would a Labour government do that?
So if you’re earning six figures, own assets, run a business, invest, work in the private sector, or qualify for inheritance tax - Labour doesn’t see you as a “working person”? Have I got this right?
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🚨The special needs system is on the brink of collapse. The government's spending watchdog will publish its own likely damning investigation this week But we’ve been chronicling the collapse for years. And I just want to set out how seriously bad things are … (mega 🧵)
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Very worth zooming in and reading. Also I would pay for an "immersive Victorian novel read-through" subscription service.
Slightly shy about posting this. But I took on Sir Jonathan Bate in the Scotsman this week. I love some of his critical writing, but he’s wrong when he says that state school students have lost the ability to read long books. They just need adaptable, realistic curricula.
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Another grim article that seeks to justify violent assault against students and teachers. It’s unbelievable how some people can find out a student attacked others in school, needed to be excluded as a result, and their sympathies are solely reserved for the attacker.
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@WalkerMarcus Surely the main reasons are that people are less likely to want to build a career in an organisation that might not exist by the time they retire, and are reluctant to throw in their lot with an organisation in crisis which will exploit those who work for it as it contracts
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Here's K.Badenoch, who thinks an autism diagnosis entails "economic advantages and protections". She also queries providing school transport for autistic kids & has no idea what neurodiversity/divergence are, and why they have abs nothing to do with, say, anxiety. Pls retweet
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Mini🧵 in which I sound off about Prof Bate's recent comments and on teaching the novel in schools. The US Ivy League panic about novels (as in the recent Atlantic piece) can't be easily transposed to England's state education set-up
@MadsDavies Good question! At present, with a GCSE class in my school, we have 3 hours of English a week in Y10 and 4 in Y11. All, with VERY few exceptions, have to do 2 courses: Lang and Lit. For our mandatory C19th novel (the only novel we have for the Lit course) we have Jekyll & Hyde
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