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The Farage claims of all the teachers are indoctorinating our kids and are activists again seems very MAGA and "Online" where the likes of "Libs of TikTok" social media accounts bang on constantly about it.

I don't have kids, but I don't get that the "reds under the beds" scare is something that is part of the UK political discussion around education. Rather behaviour, slipping standards, kids effected by COVID lockdown still not ready to learn are the things that my friends who do have kids bang on about.

It was the sort of thing the Tories used to go on about in the 1970s IIRC. Always been there bobbing around in the stream of discourse, albeiot sometimes mostly submerged.

Gove (or Cummings/Gove) and the blob ring any bells?

That's not quite the same claim. Their criticism was the "blob" stopped innovation and reform and teacher didn't want to change the way they did things. Farage is claiming something different, something very US centric about the Marxists and the trans teachers are indoctrinating the kids. That is straight Libs of TikTok type stuff.

Michael Gove did try to rewrite the history syllabus out of those concerns.

That is a fair point to an extent, but I don't think he was directly accusing all the teachers of being activists, rather he took umbrage with the way the narrative of history was being set out by those who wrote the curriculum. Bridget Phillipson has muttered about the same from the other end of the telescope, haven't followed if she has pulled the trigger on it.

It seems with Gove, the I know history better and what is being taught is missing a load of important stuff I like.

Gove, like so many of us pontificating on education, was just remembering his own schooldays. He liked history and was no good at sport so was happily selling off playing fields. What I will say for Michael Gove is that he did support a liberal arts education as a good thing in itself.

Second time around.

How do you know that Manc isn't the airport for Prestwick?

But, seriously, a most alarming report. I was very surprised anyone would want to land at Edinburgh (though the wind was possibly more or less along the runway, IIRC).

What surprises me is storm Amy was worst in Scotland. So maybe a southern diversion should have been on the table very early on, even not bothering with an attempt at Prestwick

Ireland shields England and Wales from the worst of the trans-Atlantic weather.

We use Cumbria as well.

Arguably Cumbria is part of England and Wales.

The Farage claims of all the teachers are indoctorinating our kids and are activists again seems very MAGA and "Online" where the likes of "Libs of TikTok" social media accounts bang on constantly about it.

I don't have kids, but I don't get that the "reds under the beds" scare is something that is part of the UK political discussion around education.

Yes, it is. And I have kids

You have adult kids. And you did not have much to do with your kids when they were at school.

Well I'm maybe more currently involved. And I can confirm schools are rife with this stuff.
Happy to report it's receded a little since 2021. But senior schools still basically have the Guardian as the centre ground, and the Corbyn worldview isn't unusual.

Can you give examples of 'this stuff' ?

Well:
a) the school play they performed at daughter 2's school last Feb - 'the Empress' - the title of which could have been 'English people are all evil' ('weirdly, in the 1890s, one of the Indian characters says "what can you expect of a nation of slave owners'),
b) the way history is taught at daughter 1's school, which appears to be 'the British are evil and immigration is great',
c) the material on the walls at the other local school for the open day 2 years back, which genuinely was 40% the range of sexualities and gender identities you can choose from, 25% don't be racist and the remainder covering things you might like to learn or do during your five years there,
d) our visit to the local private school, which was if anything even woker

Just as examples.

The local primary schools are pretty well-balanced though.