Didn’t get that far. Kept falling asleep. I couldn’t stay awake in one of his lectures tbh.
As I said yesterday, I investigated 7 Up - or 14 Up 2000 and he is the right age. The Mail and Telegraph trumpeting that the documentary was made DECADES before he was born is erroneous. Or wilful misinformation.
I’m not an investigative journalist but if I had time I bet I could debunk every silly exaggeration.
It’s all speculation. Like Meghan’s wedding bouquet endangering Princess Charlotte. All gibberish. Witch hunt.
As for the nonverbal thing, I used to teach diagnosed nonverbal twins; only they weren’t: selectively mute but I often heard them chatting to each other and to friends.
The human brain can convince itself of anything if it’s motivated enough and there’s nothing more motivated than a gutter journalist sent to dig dirt.
Silly season news.
Remember when Ed Milliband’s dad was “The Man Who Hated Britain”? ( Daily Mail, October, 2013) or when they drove teacher Lucy Meadows to suicide? Daily Mail, Richard Littlejohn, March 2013. Evil Bastard.
This is how it works : find a little fault or inconsistency, cite a school friend, a neighbour, ex employee, anyone really, who “prefers not to be named” and low and behold you’ve built a case.
Give it a double page spread, splash it on the front page, get the bots to say the same witty little jibes over the socials and it must be the truth.
Tell a lie often enough and it will become the truth. I used to think that was Banksy but apparently it was Joseph Goebbels.
It’s shameless what the right wing press do and IPSO stands by and does nothing.
I don’t even care much about Jason Arday, he seems like another dull education pundit who writes long winded theses that have little to do with the reality of teaching. But I do care about the spread of lies, half truths and disinformation because it’s holding everyone except the ruling classes down.