Today's memory-holing: no school ever refuses to share RSE materials ever and the Tories are just stoking up division. I mean there was literally a legal case on this and an intervention from the Secretary of State covered by all the education press, but still meh culture wars

Important question: why did Public Health England use unsound data in its gambling review?

Great read from Dan Waugh analysing the manufacture of mortality statistics in gambling: A Very Public Deception.

open.substack.com/pub/cieo/p/a-v…

On sex ed reforms..... Out goes some of the madder gender identity and hyper-sexualised lesson content - but in comes a highly politicised, therapeutic curriculum covering everything from misogyny to grief.

Why?

Because 'education' is no longer about passing on knowledge.

Really looking forward to this. Still chance to apply a place....👇

My heart sinks.....

This is still the rapid advancement of US-style compulsory 'Social Emotional Learning', for the purpose of social engineering.
I already have multiple examples of how therapeutic education goes wrong, and of course, again, it is reliant on the dodgy third sector.

'He is a tourist; you are a holiday-maker; I am a traveller.'
- Fry & Laurie

Micro-aggression turns out to be macro-nonsense. thetimes.co.uk/article/9da761…

There have been some brilliant books in the 'watching woke' genre over the last few years, including

How Woke Won by Joanna Williams
The New Puritans by Andrew Doyle
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff
Welcome to the Woke Trials by Julie

'Meghan wants to be a Nigerian in California. Her relationship is not with the reality of Nigeria today but with an imagined past'

Joanna Williams hilarious here on the 'delinquent' Markles

Joanna Williams open.substack.com/pub/cieo/p/meg…

Delighted that #BetterOffDead is making an impact on a very important national debate that has been skewed for far too long by a sophisticated lobbying campaign. Premieres tonight at 21:00 on BBC1 and BBC iPlayer.

'The tour shows us that identity is no longer grounded in the reality of our existence and shaped through our daily endeavours. No, it is something we can uncover by spitting into a test tube. This is not a self we create, but one sent via a lab report'.

Fab, by Joanna Williams

If you missed the launch of 'Studying Generations' you can catch up here and hear from all the contributors

ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/uSHQ…

Follow the post below to find the link to the book Open Access

Dr Helen Kingstone - also on 🟦 Generations Wellcome Network CCCUSociology SSPSSR, University of Kent

By me: The last thing Nigeria needs is a victim princess and her clueless husband introducing the nation’s children to cod psychology.
spiked-online.com/2024/05/14/meg…

By me: The last thing Nigeria needs is a victim princess and her clueless husband introducing the nation’s children to cod psychology.
spiked-online.com/2024/05/14/meg…

Sounds sensible: Children under nine will not be taught sex education. Schools will also have to teach pupils about the reality of biological sex telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/1…

Great discussion last night, really enjoyed it.

The idea that a university has approved 'internal events', and then others - also organised by academics - treated quite differently, is simply discriminatory practice.