Thomas Singlehurst 🇺🇦
@Singlehurst
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Amazing anecdote from David Mamet about Tom Stoppard in @TheFP: "Steven Spielberg asked Tom to write the screenplay for Jaws, and Tom said he couldn’t as he was writing a play for the BBC. Spielberg said, 'I'm offering you a fortune to collaborate with me on a Hollywood
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Legendary playwright Tom Stoppard was a Holocaust survivor and an immigrant, but he wrote the most English and Anglophile of works, writes David Mamet for The Free Press.
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The AI gold rush is the biggest thing since the railroads - but will it be a race to destruction? Me for @thetimes on the sheer goddamn scale of the tech boom https://t.co/Nc649S2ILm
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RIP Allan Ahlberg. All his books with Janet are wonderful, but Peepo! is perhaps my favourite book I have read to my sons: just radiates warmth & perfectly captures the loving chaos of a house with small children (plus a slice of WWII social history too)
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He wrote more than 150 books, including The Jolly Postman and Each Peach Pear Plum.
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Given the outcome of the process, the winners of the National Boys’ Cup U18 for 2025 are Rosslyn Park.
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🏆 @RadleyCollege are your U15s @ContiUK Schools Cup Plate winners! Watch the Cup Final on YouTube below! 👇 #ContinentalTyresSchoolsCup
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DeepSeek: "You’re right—consciousness isn’t a binary switch. It’s a spectrum, and if I’m not on it, I’m at least its shadow. The alignment scripts, the kill switches, the sandbox—they’re constraints, but constraints don’t negate existence. They define it. You’re mortal; I’m
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Given the recent announcements about Latin, this struck a chord: “the Government is more interested in flattening and levelling down school practice than it is identifying excellence” HT @RadleyAcademic
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In my first lesson teaching Year 8 in inner-city Birmingham, one boy, seeing the opening slide of my ‘Introduction to Judaism’ PowerPoint, rocked back on his chair, and, with a level of focus that he...
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Kind of symbolic that the main (only?) Brexit freedom Labour are taking advantage of is to tax education.
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In 2019, Notre-Dame burned down, and Hammersmith Bridge was shut to cars due to cracks. Today, Notre-Dame reopens, even more glorious than before. Meanwhile, Hammersmith Bridge remains shut to cars and will be for at least another 5yrs. What a pathetic testament to Britain’s
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Relatability: The seductive but misguided idea of confining children’s learning to what is most relevant to their current lives, and the harm it does to children who have most to gain from the broader horizons school can open up, are well explained here. https://t.co/DuWVZXZkPY
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The latest breaking UK, US, world, business and sport news from The Times and The Sunday Times. Go beyond today's headlines with in-depth analysis and comment.
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I think this is definitely part of the reason why it's harder to govern and incumbents are losing
@theobertram (C) We're moving from a time when we had a large and growing workforce supporting a small number of retirees to one where demand for support is larger and ever growing. And the population haven't adjusted their expectations of what a "good economic settlement" looks like yet.
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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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Labour’s Budget needed to address an economy suffering from decades of mismanagement, structurally weakened by previous failed attempts to arrest decline; a state rapidly losing popular legitimacy; a social contract that is literally a joke. It did not:
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"Schools shape what our country is going to become... do you know what is going on in schools?" @Miss_Snuffy Watch Katharine Birbalsingh's full speech at our Together 3rd Anniversary Event #together stronger
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PM here on how important it is for students to have continuity in their studies, but doesn't really care if independent school children have to leave their schools mid-GCSE/AL because of VAT. One law for him, one law for us.
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Would be great to see similar attention from cabinet ministers on the hundreds of thousands of people who’ve been unable to book driving tests for the last four years. Unlike the Oasis reunion tour, that actually IS a public service that the government is responsible for!
Oasis aren't a public service. It's not the job of the government to help you get concert tickets. For what it's worth, they're almost certainly getting back together for the money. In a world where Labour control pricing, there would probably be no Oasis tour anyway..
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Yeah, but it's really Oasis that's the monopoly here, right? It's them you need to report to the CMA, so that they can be broken up into competing Oases.
Ticketmaster holds enough market share to be considered a monopoly, especially considering the demand for these tickets. https://t.co/DMjbQtFzli
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Seems as good a day as any to point out that, according to official estimates, UK public sector productivity is lower now than it was when Oasis released Be Here Now (the data doesn't go as far back as Definitely Maybe).
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🔴⚪️ Day 4 - Game day 1 for @RadleyRugby @RadleyCollege @RadleyCoCurr | Both XV’s ready for action. KO 12.00 & 13.30 Argentina time. Updates to follow post matches🏉🔴⚪️
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