Tickets going fast for JRQ’s 10th bday. Rehearsing a new set of 80s greats. My little grey cells embracing lines & lines of lyrics. This weekend, I will live with the Style Council. Come help us celebrate 10 years and launch the 80s. kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/jazz/…

1st paper in London Review of Education feature about decolonising the school curriculum: scienceopen.com/collection/ff8…. Next week Monisha Bajaj is now at @monishabajaj.bsky.social on decolonising approaches to curriculum for students of colour. More superb research to follow in the coming months #decolonise #curriculum

Just booked our tickets. Family outing to the park across the road. What a happy blast it shall be.

It’s not often that I’m glad to see a woman lose her job. But this time is different. Disgraceful that she has led a force that so hates people it should protect. One down… theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/f…

For a decade from about ‘95 I covered a bunch of stories involving the met: The murder of Stephen Lawrence, the McPherson inquiry, the botched investigation of the murder of Michael Menson, various miscarriages of justice. What was striking during that period - 1/

Momentous indeed. What an extraordinary thing to witness.

With Russia facing off against the West it feels almost too appropriate that we’ve decided to celebrate the music of the 1980s. Three days In The studio done. Show ready to go. A handful of tickets for the JR quartet / sextet left kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/jazz/…

Say what??!!! theguardian.com/politics/2022/…

From the White Cliffs of Dover, just 21 miles from where Ukrainian refugees have been turned away trying to get to their families in the UK, Holocaust survivor Steven Frank has this message for Boris Johnson.

Call for papers! LRE Special feature: Belonging and home-making in the internationalised campus. EOI: 30 June 2022. DEADLINE for draft papers: 31 Oct 2022 ow.ly/WUBG50IsczM #LDNRevEd Hugh Starkey ScienceOpen UCL Institute of Education #Education #HE #InternationalCampus UCL Press

Running through Karl Jenkins’s glorious Armed Man ahead of scratch performance at Albert Hall tomorrow. Can’t get through even the first movement without weeping. Too real, too painful. Will be an emotional night.

A book filled with Kathryn Riley's compassion, commitment to involving children as partners and knowledge of how that can be mobilised by teacher leaders. Richly illustrated with drawings by young research partners from 40 years of studying what it means to belong at school.

An ambitious book with important scholarly insight about Millicent Fawcett's work & intervention in public life, recognised here in the Observer. Edited by melissa terras and Elizabeth Crawford. Published open access by UCL Press on 9 June. Bookmark the page! uclpress.co.uk/products/161045

That's wonderful to read, Alice. The research projects that informed this book were absolutely essential for my decision-making as a parent. I'm honoured to be the commissioning editor UCL Press for this work @RobWebster_

Time to share some of the 80s jazz the JR Sextet has been celebrating at its gigs. From Sting's 1980s album Dream Of The Blue Turtles, this is Moon Over Bourbon Street, recorded Crazy Coqs a couple of weeks ago. (All tkts here jayrayner.co.uk/shows) youtube.com/watch?v=7_M4Gm…

Anyone from SGHS still in touch with Andrea?

👏👏 I remember the day I arrived at a friend’s house & said how happy I was that a man walking behind me crossed the road, sped up, then crossed back in front of me to carry on. Turned out he was in the house, was her new boyfriend and had done it intentionally. It matters.

❗️ Here is a message from Jay Rayner the Masterchef & restaurant critic 🎶 He will be one of the EASTBOURNE’S INTERNATIONAL JAZZ & BLUES FESTIVAL headline artists Event information & tickets 🎟️ seetickets.com/event/the-east… ⚡️ Proudly sponsored by Lightning Fibre

Revised manuscript of our new book on play and the Opies submitted to UCL Press - time to celebrate! Playing the Archive: from the Opies to the Digital Playground. Lovely cover pic of the Time Telephone! 🙏 to all the team. Dr Kate Cowan John Potter 💙 Julia Bishop