Weaponised Inflation & “Green” Agenda Havoc: Is High Inflation Only Affecting Essential Goods?

Inflation can be (and is) a major instrument of global control. Market manipulation can affect real-world outcomes in countless ways through a domino effect of economics. In order to control the human population on earth, targeting essential goods and services should, unsurprisingly, be a priority. Human life’s existence is contingent to, and downstream of, the essential resources, amenities, and services available to it. Shocks to the global market in false flags and psyops like pandemics, conflicts, and other artificial upheavals can hugely disrupt a fragile market ecosystem.

The pandemics were hellbent on closing down businesses in absence of strong evidence. This closed down production and the flow of many goods causing supply chain disruption and longer term inflationary pressures that are felt until this day – spiking the prices of countless goods and services as demand was artificially stripped, causing a consequential decline in supply due to businesses going bankrupt.

The inscriptions dealt with four main themes: “governance and the establishment of a world government, population and reproduction control, the environment and humankind’s relationship to nature, and spirituality.” The inscription read: Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.

The Georgia Guidestones inscriptions, Wikipedia

The inscription reads:

• Maintain humanity under 500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature.
• Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity.
• Unite humanity with a living new language.
• Rule passion – faith – tradition – and all things with tempered reason.
• Protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts.
• Let all nations rule internally resolving external disputes in a world court.
• Avoid petty laws and useless officials.
• Balance personal rights with social duties.
• Prize truth – beauty – love – seeking harmony with the infinite.
• Be not a cancer on the Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.

Note: On July 6, 2022, an explosive device was detonated at the Guidestones’ site, destroying the Swahili/Hindi language slab and causing significant damage to the capstone. Nearby residents reportedly heard and felt explosions at around 4:00 a.m. Both the Elberton Granite Association and the Elberton city council expressed doubt that the guidestones would be rebuilt, but expressed hope that one day it could happen.

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Inflation affecting essential goods and services more than nonessential consumer goods and services

The carbon tax and pressures imposed onto governments and megacorporations has stoked worldwide inflation – if companies must reduce their carbon footprint under duress, they, and their suppliers, will have to adjust leading to raising prices on end products and services.

Read: The Green Agenda and the Plan to Collapse the Industrial World Economy

Because financial investors on Wall Street and London saw the benefit of huge profits from the Green energy agenda, working with the Davos World Economic Forum (WEF) to promote the laughable ESG investing model, conventional oil, gas and coal companies are not investing profits in expanded production. In 2020 worldwide spending on oil, gas, coal dropped by an estimated $1 trillion. That is not coming back. With BlackRock and other investors all but boycotting ExxonMobil and other energy companies in favor of “sustainable” energy, the knock-on effects on global inflation are dire.

A fundamental aggravating cause for the recent shortages of abundant coal, gas and oil is the decision by BlackRock and other global money trusts to force investment away from oil, gas or coal—all perfectly safe and necessary energy sources—to buildup of grossly inefficient and unreliable solar or wind. They call it ESG investing. It is the latest rage on Wall Street and other world financial markets ever since BlackRock CEO Larry Fink joined the Board of the Klaus Schwab World Economic Forum in 2019. They set up front ESG certifying companies that award ESG “politically correct” ratings on stock companies, and punishing those who do not comply. The rush into ESG investing has made billions for Wall Street and friends. It has also put the brakes on future development of oil, coal or natural gas for most of the world.

This is not by mistake.

If the EU continues with the suicidal “Green” agenda, it will find itself in a deindustrialized wasteland in a few short years. The problem is not gas, coal or nuclear. It is the inefficient Green Energy from solar and wind that will never be able to offer stable, reliable power.

The Green Energy Agenda of the EU, US and other governments along with the Davos-promoted ESG investing will only guarantee that as we go forward there will be even less gas or coal or nuclear to fall back on when the wind stops, there is a drought in hydroelectric dams or lack of sunshine.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize this is a road to economic destruction. But that’s in fact the goal of the UN 2030 “sustainable” energy or the Davos Great Reset: population reduction on a massive scale. We humans are the frogs being slowly boiled. And now the Powers That Be are really turning the heat up.

If you are clean and green, you potentially get investment.

If you are deemed a carbon polluter as the oil, gas and coal industries are deemed today, the global capital flows will disinvest or avoid funding you.

The immediate target of this financial cabal is the backbone of the world economy, the oil and gas industry along with coal. [It has also geopolitical and strategic implications].

Just take a look at the dramatic news in France to see the effects of the “Green” policies, French farmers are rioting. England is seeing the same thing, Germany too with protests over plans to end agricultural fuel subsidies, and the whole of Europe and beyond.

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Essential goods essential to human life and human thriving are hit hardest

Is it a coincidence (see above chart) that various distracting and nonessential goods and services, such as toys, cellphones, televisions and software are defying global inflation trends? These are invariably tools of mass distraction and mass propaganda, ensuring these items are in every household offers a certain usefulness in the global elite disruptors’ arsenal.

Recently in the USA, eggs have experienced an incredibly high rate of inflation (60%). Eggs represent an essential highly nutritious ingredient for numerous other food items, presenting knock-on effects in prices of other goods that contain it.

What apparently caused the spike? A disease — commonly known as bird flu, which is highly contagious and lethal among birds. It killed tens of millions of egg-laying hens, leading to an egg shortage.

“It’s a supply disruption, ‘act of God’ type stuff,”

Brian Moscogiuri, a global trade strategist at Eggs Unlimited

An act of God could be a called a “miracle”, that’s something not very likely to happen by pure chance – which calls the situation into some suspicion. So, act of God? Or deliberate act?

Hydrocarbons Under Attack

The immediate target of this financial cartel is the backbone of the world economy, the oil, coal and natural gas sector. Oil industry analysts predict that over the next five years or less investment flows into the world’s largest energy sector will fall dramatically. “Given how central the energy transition will be to every company’s growth prospects, we are asking companies to disclose a plan for how their business model will be compatible with a net zero economy,” BlackRock’s chairman and CEO Larry Fink wrote in his 2021 letter to CEOs.

Blackrock is the world’s largest investment group with over $7 trillion to invest. Another BlackRock officer told a recent energy conference:

“where BlackRock goes, others will follow.”

As a new Biden Administration pushes their ideological opposition to so-called fossil fuels, the world will see a precipitous decline in oil and gas investment. The role of the Davos globalists and the ESG financial players are out to guarantee that.

And the losers will be us.

Energy prices will skyrocket as they did during the recent Texas blizzards. The cost of electricity in industrial countries will become prohibitive for manufacturing industry. But rest well. This is all part of the ongoing Great Reset and its new doctrine of ESG investing.

At the end of this road, there won’t be any sufficient green replacements as suggested and promised. Prices will have gone up and less human life will reside on the face of the Earth.

In 2010 the head of Working Group 3 of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Dr Otmar Edenhofer, told an interviewer, “…one must say clearly that we redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy. One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore…” The WEF Great Reset is not simply a big idea of Klaus Schwab reflecting on the economic devastation of the coronavirus. It has been long planned by the money masters.

Essential (animal product based) vitamins for fertility targeted by the “Green” (depopulation) agenda:

There are some essential vitamins found only in animal products, some of these are essential to reproductive health. Vitamin A (Retinol), B12, Carnitine, Iodine, Carnosine, Creatine, D3, DHA, EPA, Heme Iron, and Taurine.

Below see vitamins that are only really found in animal products that are also essential for human reproductive health:

• Iodine is an essential mineral, though few food sources are rich in it. The foods highest in iodine include seaweed, dairy, tuna, shrimp and eggs – so animal products on the whole. It was found that iodine deficient women took on average one month longer to conceive than the women who were iodine sufficient. Not only this, but the iodine deficient women were significantly less likely to have gotten pregnant after trying for at least 13 months. In particular, iodine is taken up avidly by the ovary and endometrium. Iodine deficiency is associated with reduced fertility.
• Carnitine (Acetyl L-Carnitine) is quite important for fertility and only found in meat and animal products, which the WEF green agenda is targeting. L-carnitine also seems to play a role in sperm health. Oral LC and ALC supplements have been shown to improve sperm motility. And adding LC to sperm before it is frozen for later use in fertility treatments seemed to improve the sperm’s vitality and motility. Carnitine is only really present in animal products, especially red meat. Poultry, fish, and dairy foods also provide some carnitine.
• Vitamin D – this is essential for fertility, and guess what? The best food sources of vitamin D are animal products: Oily fish, including salmon, mackerel, and sardines. Other sources include egg yolks, red meat, and liver. Once again, items demonised by the green agenda. Women with better vitamin D levels in the pre-conceptual period have reduced risk of miscarriage and better rates of conception during IVF.
• Iron – This vitamin is important to fertility and can be found in plant-based sources, but meat and animal products are, once again, the best and most plentiful source, in particular liver and organ meats. Research has linked iron deficiency to ovulatory infertility.
• Zinc – The richest food sources of zinc include meat, fish, and seafood. Oysters contain more zinc per serving than any other food, but beef contributes 20% of zinc intakes from food in the United States because it is commonly consumed. Eggs and dairy products also contain zinc. Zinc is a critical component in a number of conserved processes that regulate female germ cell growth, fertility, and pregnancy. Zinc is also an essential mineral for sperm formation.

Whites Are A Shrinking Global Minority; Future Implications For The World

It’s not 30%.

It’s not 20%

It’s not even 10%

White Europeans represent a dwindling 9% of the world population, and that number is plummeting.

This is not just across a global aggregate, but they compose a shrinking proportion of the population in their own nations.

Elon Musk has numerously tweeted on X (formerly Twitter) that “population collapse due to low (white) birth rates is a much bigger risk to civilization than global warming, [and therefore for people to] mark these words.”

Of course, Musk is almost certainly aware that the global population, as a whole, is currently growing and that below replacement rate births only affect certain countries.

Therefore, Musk is probably deliberately omitting his true reference to white births declining – in order to remain ostensibly politically correct. Musk knows that if the white nations (the bastion and guardians of world stability) succumb, the rest of the world, and the supply chain will collapse at the hands of the less capable and less ethical races with atrocious track records on human rights, environmental responsibility, and peacekeeping – and, worse yet, with irresponsible access to devastating white-invented technologies, such as nuclear weapons.

Musk fears a massive regression to the warring and divided past or even human extinction, hence his strong interest in beginning an off-world colony on Mars and in the potential of A.I. to (hopefully) rapidly put human affairs in good order.

“Assuming there is a benevolent future with AI, I think the biggest problem the world will face in 20 years is population collapse.”

Elon Musk at an AI conference, August 2019

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Developed and highly intelligent nations at risk of extinction

Musk urged Italians and the people of other industrialised countries to have more children “or the culture of Italy, Japan and France will disappear.” Notice how he is not referring to the billion+ Chinese (whom are currently experiencing a decline in births)?

Musk told the Arteju political festival in Rome that immigration cannot solve the demographic problem that many major economic powers, such as Italy and Japan are facing. Why? External immigration will not bolster or enhance; it will replace the qualities of an existing developed race with the qualities of a lesser and undeveloped one.

“We are in danger of no longer having these countries,” he said.

“My advice to all government leaders and people is: make sure you have children to create a new generation.”

Musk has also criticised Ireland’s Taoiseach Leo Varadkar, claiming that he (Varadkar) “hates the Irish people,” after the Taoiseach revealed new legislation to crack down on hate speech after violent anti-immigrant rioting in Dublin in 2023.

Fact: Whites are the true minority; not blacks, hispanics, or asians. The terminology of ethnic “minorities” should always come with the added caveat of “in white countries, not globally”.

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White achievement is unimaginably big; yet the white population is relatively small

One reason that whites aren’t considered a minority group is because the focus is that “The World Is Only West.” White achievements and globalised white products speak louder and bigger than the white populace itself.

Talented white people are in film, TV, music, sport, culture, art, and headlining politics more than other races are; creating an overrepresentation-bias-effect that gives the impression white people are more “omnipresent” than is actually the case – the coloured many are quiet, almost silent, in the artistic, ethical, political, cultural, and economic realms (the USA has a relatively small population of 331 million and is still the world’s number one economy). The coloured masses’ swelling numbers therefore go unnoticed and without due acknowledgement. But they will voraciously consume regardless, and they will advocate for themselves and desire to occupy and acquire white countries and white resources at the expense of white (and therefore humanity’s) interests. The coloured many are only capable of short to medium term thinking individually and as nation states; the white minority are the only long-term thinkers on the planet – humanity’s collective best shot at sorting itself out.

When restructuring the world order, monied whites in the West are going to be the most reluctant to give up their wealth, status, and privileges, and are most capable of seriously resisting and overturning any imposed changes. The global elite are well aware of this, and have devised a multi-racial population-replacement strategy (Kalergi) to usher in a new world order – it is something called the totalitarian tiptoe, and amounts to death by a thousand cuts. Whites manifest the cultural capital of the present global order, remove that and you enable a “Great Reset”.

Ever hear about the Barbary slave trade in schools? No? Where Whites were traded in larger numbers and greater brutality than the West African slave trade? No?

Global demographics for human posterity; the African surge, a disruptive tidal wave

For most of human history, our population grew at a crawl: Between 10,000 BCE and 1700 CE, the world’s population grew at a rate of just 0.04 percent annually. At one point in our prehistory, the human population might have dropped as low as a few thousand people. But since the industrial revolution and the advent of modern science, that has all changed:

According to the most recent demographic statistics, 1.4 billion African people live on planet Earth. Fueled by a combination of falling mortality and some of the highest birth rates in the world, Africa’s total population has increased tenfold and now stands at over ~1.4 billion.

The United Nations projects that by 2050, Africa’s population will reach close to 2.5 billion. Such a figure would mean that more than 25 percent of the world’s population will be African. Its population growth will slow thereafter, but Africa will remain by far the largest source of growth globally: its share of the world’s population is set to reach close to 40 percent by the end of the century.

The population in sub-Saharan Africa will almost double from 1.2 billion in 2022 to just under 2.1 billion in 2050. In the same period, India’s population will grow by over 250 million to overtake China’s as the largest in the world.

Matt Reynolds, Wired

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The World Economic Forum (WEF) Summit’s “Walthamstow Tapestry”

It began when journalist Larry Alex Taunton went undercover to the annual globalist confab and infiltrated a conference room full of elites talking about the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

The tapestry, by Turner prize winning English artist Sir Grayson Perry, begins with the birth of a baby along a river of blood that eventually flows into the waiting mouth of the Devil, ending in the death of an old man. Branded baubles like designer handbags become tawdry keystones marking the passage from cradle to grave. It is a contemporary epic warning about the dangers of consumerism.

In Grayson’s tapestry, many of the world’s leading names, from luxury brands such as Louis Vuitton and Tiffany to high street giants such as Marks and Spencer and IKEA, come under Perry’s excoriating gaze in this cautionary and prophetic tale of modern day life.

The tapestry explores humanity’s quasi-religious relationship to consumerism, which aligns fittingly with the WEF’s focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals and its goal to control human proliferation – and restructure the world order to permanently control the flow of goods and services and just about every other facet of human life – and therefore the entirety of human carbon-based life as we know it.

The 2024 (World Economic Forum) WEF conference in Davos displayed the Walthamstow Tapestry (partially pictured here), a piece of art by Grayson Perry depicting modern consumerism. The WEF is responsible for the curtailment of human carbon by pushing for a global carbon tax through the coordination of global corporations and major capital interests. See this link for the full tapestry.

The World Economic Forum (WEF) is interested in steering global affairs internationally, utilising a top-down approach. The goal is to introduce a carbon tax to price people out of having children, bring the human population under 500 million, and to responsibly (or “wisely”) introduce eugenics; and thus guide sensible reproduction into human posterity. To do this, the WEF draws on the involvement of 100 governments, all major international organizations, 1,000 Forum’s Partners, as well as civil society leaders, experts, youth representatives, social entrepreneurs, and news outlets.

Time for pruning the human carbon mass?

Guide reproduction wisely – improving fitness and diversity. Without going into details as yet undiscovered, this means humanity should apply reason and knowledge to guiding its own reproduction.

The Georgia Guidestones (now destroyed)

The WEF foundation’s stated mission is “improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic, and other leaders of society to shape global, regional, and industry agendas”. The Forum states that the world is best managed by a self-selected coalition of multinational corporations, governments and civil society organizations (CSOs), which it expresses through initiatives like the “Great Reset” and the “Global Redesign”.

Ultimately, the WEF acknowledges chaos and uncertainty in the world, as unrestrained populations surge and conflict flashpoints fester in an unstable atomic age – (they believe) that this calls for a sensible approach to guiding human affairs into a more sustainable future. A renaissance in how we think and live. Even if you agree with their premise, would the practical outcome be effective, or tyrannical?

To do this humanity will need to reliquish its individuality in terms of private property and to reliquish its unbridled access to individual reproductive rights.

This monumental change, the biggest of its kind in human history, will be resisted by the great many, which calls for the need for some degree of relative secrecy, which it (the WEF and its fellow organisations) discretionally maintains.

To effectively implement these changes people will need to be gradually stripped of their individual rights, deprived of their access to resources and income via inflationary warfare and carbon taxes, estranged from their ethnic, family, and national identities in cultural sabotage, and even killed or suppressed in world-disrupting psyops like false flag pandemics, false flag EMP grid outages, and phony wars, among other soft and hard strategies to decisively hamper human reproduction and activity and usher in a complete reset. The ride will be bumpy.

The infamous Covid-19 pandemic was a global trial on quarantining and curtailing human activity and life; not quarantining a disease. Instead, the disease was, in fact, humanity itself.

The 2022 WEF Forum was marked by the absence of a Russian delegation for the first time since 1991, which The Wall Street Journal described as signalling the “unraveling of globalization.” Will the aspirations of the global elite holdfast into the next few decades and beyond?

The UK Teaching Crisis: A Symptom Of What Is Yet To Come

Teaching is in crisis.

“Without urgent action, more education professionals will sadly decide that what should be a rewarding career is not for them, and pupils’ education and life chances will inevitably suffer.”

Ian Hartwright, National Association of Head Teachers

Mutant Genes: A Critical Spectrum Of Genetic Faults And Illnesses Have Progressively Struck the Education System. Education in the UK is thoroughly flummoxed by a rise in autistic spectrum disorders (ASD) as a result of wider society’s faltering mutational genetics. Children are entering into the care of a system woefully unprepared for this radical change in the fundamental qualities, traits, and personal characteristics of its average learner intake. The old rules and expectations simply don’t count anymore; the next generation is genetically ill beyond belief and schools are the frontline to encounter this illness and debilitation.

Over 1.5 million pupils in England have special educational needs (SEN), that’s an increase of 87,000 from 2022. This means there are a wider and more challenging array of behavioural profiles for teachers to navigate, without a proportional change of system and funding to support this change of circumstances:

• 389,171 pupils in schools in England were on an EHC (Education, Health and Care) plan. Up by 9.5% from 2022. The number of pupils in England issued with a special needs support plan has more than doubled in the last eight years to 180 a day
• 13% of pupils in England are with SEN (Special Educational Needs) support. That is up from 12.6% in 2022.

A Thankless Profession: Woefully Underpaid And Undervalued. Teaching has been upended by a persistent crisis of low pay leading to the profession having less than competitive wages.

• A succession of below-inflation pay rises over the last decade means teacher earnings have fallen by 13% in real terms since 2010.
• The UK Gov has introduced more generous bursaries for trainees and committed to raising starting salaries in England to £30,000 by next year. Though early-career funding will help with recruitment, it has no impact on the deteriorating pay of experienced teachers, for whom the Department for Education has proposed a meagre 3% increase to be taken out of the existing schools budget (unfunded).
• Headteachers have warned that low salaries are fuelling a recruitment and retention crisis as teaching staff are leaving the profession to earn more working in supermarkets or retail.

Workload: Unpaid Overtime Is Out Of Control. Inefficient and ineffective over-regulation has led to excessive workload causing the average teaching workweek to total a crushing 54 hours of drudgery – with around 13 of these hours falling outside of the normal school day. Excessive workload not only affects the wellbeing of individuals, it is also the most cited factor impacting adversely on teacher recruitment and retention.

• One of the UK’s major teachers’ unions, NASUWT, is calling for a contractual, enforceable limit on teachers’ working hours to ensure staff can enjoy a life outside work.
• 25% of teachers in England work more than 60 hours a week.
• The ‘status quo’ expectation is that teachers work outside directed hours to ‘fulfil duties’ such as in ‘planning and preparing courses and lessons’. For obvious reasons, this vague language opens the door to excessive workloads that extend beyond directed hours.
• The number of headteachers leaving for reasons other than retirement is also the highest since records began, with 1,694 leaving in 2021/2022 – this is up from 1,151 the year before and makes the third time since current records began that over 1,000 headteachers have quit the profession.
• Four in every five teachers say that their workload and the stress of the job have increased and half of teachers say that workload has negatively affected their physical and mental health.
• There is no justification for schools seeking to place increasing demands on teachers. The work of teachers cannot exceed the time that teachers are paid to do the job.

A Record Mass Exodus: Shortfall of Teaching Recruitment Targets. Teaching is wrought by an exodus of new teachers from the chalkface, with one in three leaving within five years (~33%), with 40,000 overall ditching the career in 2021-22 (not to retire). However, the DfE said almost 48,000 teachers joined the profession in 2022-23, up 2,800 from the previous year. Yet if 33% leave within 5 years we could say that about 16,000 of those new entrants won’t be sticking around. So (hypothetically) the real intake is approx 32,000, meaning the circa 40,000 teachers leaving the profession leaves an approx 8,000 deficit each year. Additionally, the government has actually missed its secondary teacher recruitment targets for nine of the past ten years.

“Addressing teacher retention should be at the heart of dealing with the teacher supply challenge, with further policy action needed to reduce teacher workload and increase the competitiveness of teacher pay.”

Jack Worth, school workforce lead at the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)

• Recruitment for some secondary subjects is consistently much lower than the average; physics is 83% below target in 2022/23, design and technology 75% below target and computing 70% below target.
• The DfE’s latest workforce data has shown that 39,930 teachers left the teaching profession in the 2021/2022 academic year for reasons other than retirement, which amounts to around 8.8 percent of teachers in the sector – this has increased from only 7,800 in the 2020/2021 academic year.
• This puts teacher departure levels at their highest since current census records began in 2010/2011.
• The number of temporarily filled teacher posts increased from 1,800 in November 2020 to 3,000 in November 2022.

“This is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of a recruitment and retention crisis which is affecting virtually every school and college in the country.”

Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)

Former head of year at a Wiltshire secondary school, John Chettleburgh, left teaching earlier than planned this summer because it had become so “hard”. The difficulties he cites are workload and expectations, but also the increasingly challenging behaviour and emotional problems of pupils, particularly in the younger years. And concentration spans, which he says have “dropped significantly” during children’s return to school after Covid.

“No matter how government tries to spin it, today’s data shows that it is in denial over its failure to tackle the longstanding recruitment and retention crisis in teaching.”

Ian Hartwright, head of policy at the National Association of Head Teachers, June 2023

The Party Inspectorate: The Cruel And Arbitrary Reign Of Ofsted. Teaching is under the boot of The Office for Standards in Education (Ofsted) inspections; a punitive system that passes judgement on the basis of dubious and oft-arbitrary criterion:

“More than a decade of real-terms cuts to pay, accompanied by crushing workload and the impact of high stakes inspection and accountability measures that drive ill-health, mean that teachers and leaders continue to walk away from an education system where funding is still below 2010 levels in real terms.”

Ian Hartwright, head of policy at the National Association of Head Teachers

• A culture of fear and apprehension is fueled by Ofsted’s dread-based omnipresence. One solution would be replacing the current system of ratings with a more nuanced range of indicators, providing parents with information without penalising schools.
• Headteacher Ruth Perry’s tragic suicide in 2023 led to widespread calls for Ofsted’s reform. “#ReformOfsted” became a viral hashtag on the socials.

“We rely too much on Ofsted. It is a blunt tool that fails children, parents and schools.”

Sonia Sodha

The UK Is An Anomaly In The Education World

Surveys have revealed that teachers in England work far longer hours than their international counterparts, causing serious concern amongst both policymakers and the profession.

One in four put in more than 60 hours a week – 12 hours above the limit set by the European Working Time Directive to protect employees from exploitation. Their average working week lasts up to 15 hours longer than teachers in other countries. Four in 10 usually work in the evening – and 10 per cent at weekends.

Secondary school teachers spend as much time on management, administration, marking and lesson planning (20.1 hours) as teaching pupils (20.5 hours).

Last year it is suggested that teachers worked an average 49 hours a week – compared to 34 hours for those in Finland. This is despite successive government promises to reduce their hours.

“Overall, bolder plans are needed by the Government to show they are serious about reducing working hours for teachers and bringing them into line with other countries.”

Professor John Jerrim, of UCL’s Institute of Education (IOE)

The figure for industrialised OECD nations across the globe was 41 hours, the University College London (UCL) study found.

Lead author Professor John Jerrim, of UCL’s Institute of Education (IOE), said: “This is the first study to attempt to track the working hours of teachers over such a long period of time.”

The findings demonstrate the gap between the UK and other countries in the organisation of its education system, emboldening the need for extensive reforms.

“Teachers are underpaid and overworked thanks to government-imposed pay austerity combined with a relentless series of reforms which have left teachers doing more for less.”

Geoff Barton, general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL)

Behaviour Policies In UK Schools Are Soft

Why is being strict seen as oppressive? To be strict is to be clear, consistent, constant.

Sam Strickland, Principal at The Dunston School

My firm view and stance is that schools should adopt centralised, centrally-led approaches to behaviour. Critics cite that such approaches are either strict, deskill staff or are professionally suffocating. I believe these claims to be false and ill-founded.

Many schools are entering upon, through the effect of ‘progressive’ Initial Teacher Training colleges, ‘restorative justice’ and ‘positive reinforcement’ approaches to behaviour management. These approaches in isolation are injurious to school cultures, however in combination (with behaviourist approaches) they can have positive effects. Unfortunately, a divide between ‘restorative’ schools and ‘behaviourist’ schools has presented problems with the effective management of school culture – for all types of teachers.

On top of this, a lack of central planning of behaviour management, and leaving the arrangement and policing of sanctions and punishments to already overworked teachers to fulfill, will cause damage to the constancy required in the sphere of influencing group, and school-wide, behaviour.

Children of any age need clear boundaries, clear routines and clear rules to know where they stand. Once they know your position and that it will be adhered to, then they know where they stand.

Schools are disempowered from permanent dismissal or extending internal exclusions of disruptive pupils/students to the protective benefit of obedient and engaged children, whom otherwise are having their education woefully disrupted.

The Failure Of The ECF/ECT Programme

The Early Career Framework is a two-year programme, rollout began in September 2021, which aims to improve teacher retention through a package of support fully funded by the government. In reality, the ECF increases mentors’ and new teachers’ workloads, and regurgitates a lot of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) principles – already relayed to new teachers in their training years. It’s a backfired blanket policy that just adds more paperwork and scrutiny (red tape, essentially).

Commenting on the 12.8% of new teachers who quit after just one year, union chief Ian Hartwright added: “The concerns we repeatedly raised about the content overload, repetition and workload involved in the (ECF) for both new teachers and mentors were not acted upon, so we are sadly not surprised to see it appears to have had little positive impact.”

• An overwhelming majority (95 per cent) said that the ECF had increased workload for a newly qualified teacher (64 per cent said the ECF had significantly increased workload). All respondents (99 per cent) said that the ECF has had an overwhelmingly negative impact on the workload of mentors. Over eight in ten (81 per cent) said that the workload of mentors had significantly increased. Almost two-thirds (64 per cent) of respondents told us that the ECF will have a negative or very negative impact on the work life balance of ECTs.
• A third (32 per cent) of school leaders feared that the ECF will have a negative impact on retention rates for ECTs. Just under a third (28 per cent) reported that mentors did not want to continue their mentoring role as a direct result of the impact of the ECF.
• More than one-third of school leaders now say they may take in fewer early career teachers in the future, which rises to 46 per cent among primary heads.
• Despite being designed to improve retention, 21 per cent of teachers say reforms would make them less likely to stay in the profession – the same number of teachers who say that it would make them more likely to remain.
• Fifty-seven per cent of ECTs say it has added “a lot” to their workload, with 65 per cent of mentors saying the same.

“It is enormously concerning that schools are finding the additional workload from the ECF so debilitating. One of the key aims of this new system is to improve retention of early career teachers. That obviously won’t happen if they are so overwhelmed in their first two years. Even more concerning, those who are stepping up to mentor new teachers are also drowning in the resulting workload and considering not continuing in this crucial role.”

Paul Whiteman, general secretary of school leaders’ union NAHT