#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator. ‘On Time’ News and Fiction writing blog at: https://ontimesorg.wordpress.com/
Summer reading: the accidental invention of a time portal sets Fran, Jamie and Annamarie on a perilous journey across time, untangling ancestral mysteries that reveal how love, memory & family bonds endure across centuries, generations and continents #BookSky amzn.eu/d/04RPaa6k
Happy Yorkshire Day everyone! Here’s a piece I wrote last year about my adoptive county…. and ‘All Creatures Great and Small’ will be back on UK Channel 5 and US PBS over Christmas 2026. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
All Creatures Great and Small: a Yorkshire phenomenonThe stories of Yorkshire-based vet ‘James Herriot’ are renowned. A Thirsk museum offers a fascinating insight into his life and timesyorkshirebylines.co.ukSummer reading: while young eco-activist Dylan is apprenticed to an enigmatic time hopping AI posing as Merlin in the 6th century, his physicist uncle Jamie desperately searches for a colleague lost in time, unaware that they are being closely observed from the distant future. #BookSky
On Time for Eco: 2Buy On Time for Eco: 2 by Jarvis, Pam from Amazon's Fiction Books Store. Everyday low prices on a huge range of new releases and classic fiction.amzn.euI think these lists are used mostly for cancellation & vexatiousness & I wish that @safety.bsky.app would get rid of them. I was put on a list called ‘Nazis’ about a year ago and have complained to @bsky.app several times, but never even got a reply. I suspect it’s a contravention of EU/UK GDPR.
Claire S (UK not USA)Blocked this twat who added me to a list called Time Leeches, he was very rude when he didn't like my perfectly polites response disagreeing with him.
This is true of the arts in general. Independent publishers are being squeezed out of the market; publishing giants entice authors to pay to publish their own writing, & to amend it to vanilla ‘house’ styles. AI is also beginning to replace people in writing, film and art. We need to be more aware.
A TV and cinema calamity could be disastrous for what you watch and what you know. Act now to stop that | Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumberbatch and Benedict WongThe Paramount-Warner Bros merger is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic. Britain’s culture secretary knows the risks and can intervene. She should, say actors led by Alan Cumming, Benedict Cumb...www.theguardian.comSo the UK has a new government wooing us with its willingness to listen. So please, can we have a state education system that treats children as people rather than as information processing systems, most particularly in the early years? @paulwaughmp.bsky.social @lucympowell.bsky.social #EduSky
Nurturing the brain: play, development and learningPlay is essential to healthy brain development and learning in early childhood. Human brains evolved to “boot” principally through social in...histpsych.blogspot.comYes, this. In the full chapter this blog was drawn from I look back to Piaget and Vygotsky (whose theories preempted later neurological evidence) as the start of this level of knowledge of early childhood, along with Anna Freud, Melanie Klein and Susan Isaacs. Plowden drew from all of these. #EduSky
WendyStrangely enough, the research based Plowden Report child-centred system that worked - developed post-war to encourage free-thinking, independent people after the horror of Nazism - was thrown out in favour of Gradgrind Academies. And here we are.
As the new Early Years Minister @paulwaughmp.bsky.social takes up his post, could #EarlyYears researchers and practitioners request he considers the most recent #ChildDevelopment research& adjusts policy accordingly? We’ve been waiting for this for literally years @andyburnham.bsky.social #EduSky
Nurturing the brain: play, development and learningPlay is essential to healthy brain development and learning in early childhood. Human brains evolved to “boot” principally through social in...histpsych.blogspot.comBoris Johnson gave the U.K. Brexit, Trump gave the US war with Iran. A good slogan for those opposing the populist option in future elections (beyond the obvious humanitarian issues) is ‘populists make *you* pay.’
Elizabeth N. SaundersCan't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.
The word ‘monster’ doesn’t even adequately describe this man. All those files need to be released in full, now, without fear or favour with respect to the abusers. #EpsteinFiles
Control, threats, disfiguring surgery: My life inside Jeffrey Epstein's 'cult'"Anya" gives the BBC a rare account of how sex-criminal financier Epstein lured and abused his “assistants”.www.bbc.co.ukBarn storming speech from Andy Burnham this morning; hope it is followed with delivery. Some promising plans for giving control back to local communities - but can we discuss this with closer reference to where this should begin: schools & Early Years? @vicderbyshire.bsky.social #Newsnight #EduSky
Education MATters: exploring England’s state school industryConservatives claim the academisation of schools as one of their greatest achievements. But do the figures stack up?yorkshirebylines.co.ukMicrosoft is planning to build three massive AI data centres in Leeds. It’ll drain thousands of litres of water from the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. Sign here to prevent the council’s final sign off: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Stop the Microsoft AI megasite in Leeds!Microsoft wants to build three huge AI data centres at Skelton Grange. It would drain the River Aire and become the city's biggest carbon emitter. We can still stop it - add your name to the petition.you.38degrees.org.uk