Columnist for The Times & The Sunday Times. Substack Newsletter: https://teapawt.net/t.co/kuwqRacPTK Co-host of the Ponsonby & Massie podcast: @ponsonbymassie
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On Thursday I wrote about the 2014 injunction Russell Brand obtained against a woman who accused him of assault.
I've now obtained the final order. It's breathtaking.
She had no lawyer. No trial. Yet she was silenced for life - even barred from speaking to the police.
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First they came for the teaching unions.
And I cheered.
Then they came for the rest of the McBlob.
And I cheered again.
Column on the rot within the Scottish educational establishment.
thetimes.com/article/dbc1ae8…
First they came for the teaching unions.
And I cheered.
Then they came for the rest of the McBlob.
And I cheered again.
Column on the rot within the Scottish educational establishment.
thetimes.com/article/dbc1ae8…
alexmassie retweeted
The SNP says you “can’t do anything” on education without the teaching unions.
But the teaching unions are a huge part of the problem!
thetimes.com/article/dbc1ae8…
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The EIS is a vampire squid wrapped around the face of Scotland, its young people, its opportunities and its future. Awful, awful Marxist refuseniks.
thetimes.com/article/dbc1ae8…
The SNP says you “can’t do anything” on education without the teaching unions.
But the teaching unions are a huge part of the problem!
thetimes.com/article/dbc1ae8…
I’m sure this is excellent. But…
Every hour Mr Caro spends not typing is an hour lost and we can’t be sure there are enough hours left for him to BLOODY WELL FINISH the thing.
So, no more interviews please.
The master biographer reflects at 91. The Robert Caro interview.
0:00:00 – How Caro gets people to talk
0:05:03 – Does America need a little more Moses today?
0:12:42 – Moses the young idealist
0:17:57 – Watching Moses lose power
0:24:01 – Did Moses realize he was changing?
0:27:53 – Building during the Great Depression
0:32:51 – The threats and promises of Lyndon Johnson
0:36:08 – Could Kennedy have passed Johnson’s laws?
0:41:00 – Getting a book down to one sentence
0:46:21 – All the material that never made it into the books
0:52:59 – Loneliness
alexmassie retweeted
The weightlifting analogy @daisychristo uses to illustrate why effort is essential to learning is beautifully put and well worth sharing with students. Full podcast here amolrajanconnection.com/podc…
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So Twitter please do your stuff.
I’m desperate to find a GP successor for my great wee rural practice in Shetland. I’m retiring in April. We have advertised with no success so far. Please share widely
alexmassie retweeted
Why did John Swinney duck this question 11 times?
PLUS – Budget analysis
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Hard to believe there’ll ever again be a contestant on The Traitors quite as self-serving and egotistical as Acaster.
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Greatest wordless performance ever delivered on the small screen. And then he was Picard. RIP.
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Many of these things are well meaning but the long term effect is bad - it encourages: people to adopt self-limiting labels which encourage them to feel fragile rather than strong, and lead to the pathologisation of normal life - John Haidt is good on why this is damaging.
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A "breathing space" budget might be politically-astute but by definition it avoids taking any of the big and painful decisions that will have to be made eventually. And it makes those choices harder and more expensive too.
thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…
A "breathing space" budget might be politically-astute but by definition it avoids taking any of the big and painful decisions that will have to be made eventually. And it makes those choices harder and more expensive too.
thetimes.com/uk/scotland/art…