Author of 'What a Man is Not', out 19 November 2026 and available for pre-order now: https://teapawt.net/t.co/zXnth0R0fH
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I’ve written a book! Out 19 November (International Men’s Day), 'What A Man Is Not: New Rules for Masculinity' aims to transform how we think and talk about men. Pre-order it here: amazon.co.uk/What-Man-Not-Ru… (Pre-orders dictate what bookshops stock – they make a BIG difference!)
What a Man is Not: New Rules for Masculinity
What a Man is Not: New Rules for Masculinity
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The Independent Inquiry into White Working Class Educational Outcomes is vitally important. It also essentially ignores the specific problems faced by boys in a way I'm truly shocked by. 🧵
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There is no plausible world in which today, if girls were doing vastly less well than boys in any given service, that would be swept aside and its importance explicitly diminished in this kind of report.
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Great to see the BBC tackling this - men are often sidelined in fertility conversations and by fertility services. I think the answer is designated advocacy for men in areas like these. 🧵bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2w…
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The common counterargument is men’s health throughout history has been treated as the default, and there’s a lot of truth to that. But those same age-old prejudices lie behind men being an afterthought in areas like fertility.
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Boys do not need to be taught differently than girls. But we do need to change the way teachers think about them. 🧵
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Perhaps this is a function of other features of boys: they are, on average, more naughty, present their work less neatly, focus their talents and energy across a narrower range of subjects. Regardless, the institutional bias is still there, as is the urgent need to address it.
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Great to be on @bbc5live yesterday talking Gareth Southgate and whether we need to "teach boys differently". (We don't! Here is an area doing better for boys is most obviously not a zero-sum game - what narrows the gender gap improves outcomes for girls in absolute terms too.)
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I love Gareth Southgate, and it's great that he's taking the underperformance of boys at school seriously. But there's good evidence here and the answer is not to "teach boys differently." It's the opposite. What works for everyone works best for boys. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgp…
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It's consistent discipline and high expectations and delivering information in bite-sized chunks. It's teachers who know what they're talking about and are able to build positive, mutually respectful relationships with their students.
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