🧵Why does the Labour Government want to “ensure greater consistency between academies and maintained schools by requiring all schools to teach the national curriculum”? 1/6

At present, free schools – a subset of academies – don’t have to teach the national curriculum. Instead, they’ve developed their own curriculums.

In the case of the Knowledge Schools Trust, which I co-founded, the schools teach a knowledge-based curriculum they have spent over 10 years developing and which we’ve shared with more than 100 other schools. 2/6

The Twitter Files really bring home that identifying any content that’s counter-narrative as ‘misinformation’ or ‘disinformation’ is the way agents of the state or deep state (and their allies or soon to be bosses) get social media companies to remove it. This is currently the greatest threat to free speech we face — and the Online Safety Bill will make it worse because it will empower Ofcom to fine social media companies up to 10% of their annual global turnover if they don’t enforce their terms of service — and we now know those

Just flicking through Penny Mordaunt's book. Glowing foreword by Bill Gates, full of praise for China, relentless promotion of the LGBTQ+ agenda, wants to ditch the MBE and OBE, thinks more 'hate speech' should be censored... Great pitch for the leadership... of the Labour Party. Here are some quotes from the book: "It Aint Half Hot, Mum featured... casual racism, homophobia, white privilege, colonialism, transphobia..."