How I became a full-time activist

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Seven years ago, I spent New Year with my friend Artemy Troitsky and family in their dacha near Moscow. At that time, Artemy was one of Russia’s most well-known political commentators, an arch-critic of Putin and other oligarchs and a lifelong campaigner for social and political justice. He was also a rock music academic and impresario who brought the Rolling Stones, David Bowie and Lou Reed (amongst many others) to perform live in the USSR in the seventies, for which he was put under house arrest.

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We’ve won!

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Today we are celebrating a massive win for Can Can and the More Than A Score Drop SATs 2021 campaign! Gavin Williamson has finally seen sense and said this year’s SATs and other formal assessments will be cancelled. His announcement comes after many months of hard campaigning by Can Can and the More Than A Score coalition, supported by tens of thousands of amazing parents, heads and teachers.

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When will Rishi ditch the gloss and listen to educators?

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This week’s Spending Review served up cold comfort to educators and our nation’s children. Along with headteachers, teachers, unions and parents, here at Can Can we campaigned long and hard to win Boris Johnson’s vaunted election promise of a £14 billion cash injection for schools, which, in one of those fiscal sleights of hand we’ve become used to, shrank to £7.1 billion the minute the figures were examined in detail.

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