My views on the SEND reforms news today. This is my view as a parent of 2 children with SEND and as someone who cares deeply about the welfare of staff in the education system.

Show your progressive values by advocating for disabled people to be shut away so they don't bother you or anyone else.

I personally hold Keir Starmer responsible for this outrage which occured when he wasn't Prime Minister.

Yeah but it's all Starmer's fault.

I have a low opinion of Polanski but I even I didn't think he'd stoop this low.

It's fascinating to read this article in light of all the talk about U-turns. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

No member of Reform UK is a "shadow" anything. They are a rabble of 8 MPs. Journalists shouldn't be referring to them as this. They are spokespeople.

EXC: Robert Jenrick has been mocked for using Ozempic and told “you can't take an injection for personality”…by his Reform colleague Matt Goodwin. In previous interviews, Mr Goodwin also said Jenrick had “no charisma”, and Reform risked becoming a Tory tribute act” www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

If Reform get in these two will be in the press moaning about how they didn't know what they were voting for.

You see the difference between the Daily Mail and the Guardian is that one stabs you in the front and the other stabs you in the back.

It's official - Birmingham is no longer bankrupt. There's no underestimating the scale of the challenge ahead. But this is an important moment for the city. laurence4northfield.com/posts/birmin...

Matt Goodwin pulled out of yesterday's hustings in Gorton because the group who organised it weren't impartial enough for him. I thought he'd debate anyone, anytime, any place. Not very marketplace of ideas of you, Matt.

The far left: We hate Labour because they pander to the far right. Now let's send an open letter to the far right saying how much we hate Labour and we want to team up.

Perhaps this is some of that warmed over Millibandism I've heard about yesterday.

And people say they don't do jokes on Bluesky.

Clearly a suicide attempt. From a moving car. During which he had to reload. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Give it a week and people will say that Starmer told Mandelson to do that.

The lobby hate Starmer with a vengeance because he was never supposed to be Prime Minister. He upset the narrative and we can't have that.

People on here think Farage will turn the country into a dictatorship.

Like all populists the Greens will happily lie to get what they want.

Just a quick note to @greenparty.org.uk and @greenpartyhan.bsky.social - I was not consulted on being quoted on your leaflets and I have not endorsed your campaign (or any campaign in this seat). I think this note, like the bar chart next to it, is misleading and out of context.

Scrapped by Labour to a chorus of carping & undermining, so well done everyone for giving Farage reason to believe reimposing it would be popular 👍

Reform would reimpose the two child limit (ie cut monthly income by over £300pm on many families and throw 450,000 kids back into poverty) to fund duty cuts on alcohol 🤮

Today I travelled on a publicly owned train.

West Midlands Trains return to public ownership today - the first public services on the Cross-City Line since 01 March 1997. An essential step towards creating Great British Railways, better services, and a railway run by and for the nation.

That is one of the stupidest things I've read on this website.

Only Labour can defeat Reform in Gorton and Denton. A vote for the Greens or any other party risks them getting in. We are a tolerant, proud, progressive city and we don’t want their divisive brand of politics here.

Hope Montie goes canvassing for him

Reform Lite latest. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

not sure this is the classiest response from the Tories to the latest defection to Reform UK

Yep - only Labour can stop Reform in Gorton and Denton. So what matters more: the defeat of a Trump-worshipping party that would import ICE to the UK, deport millions, withdraw from the ECHR, scrap net zero, reintroduce the two child cap and end employment rights; or teaching Labour a lesson?

Walz: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal government that can kill, injure, menace and kidnap its citizens off the streets or on the side of a nurse at the V.A. who died bearing witness to such government

It's an idiotic, unworkable idea that is open to abuse so of course Marina Purkiss is behind this.

Stupid government.

The US.

The Telegraph suddenly waking and sitting bolt upright

Starmer slams Trump: "Trump deployed words on Chagos yesterday that were different to his previous words of welcome and support when I met him in the White House... for the express purpose of putting pressure on me and Britain in relation to my values and principles on the future of Greenland."

Will this get the same level of outrage that Lord Ali buying a pair of glasses did?

Huge day for UK's clean energy sector, and by extension the wider economy. General (although not universal) view seems to be the government has pulled off a really impressive result that will deliver much needed power at a lower cost than new gas plants. www.businessgreen.com/news/4524154...

This really matters. Even if you don’t have x weeks service you should get paternity leave to spend time with your newborn - and now all dads will.

Basic intellectual hygiene is when you see a screenshot of something where someone you disapprove of or dislike or think is evil or any of the above is doing something worth mocking, you should go check first. In this case, it appears she was answering an Iranian Harry Potter fan.

The ideology: antipoverty The story: no kid shouldn’t eat tonight because of how many siblings they have, poverty steals life chances The facts: this Labour government is lifting 450,000 children out of poverty by ending the two child limit

It is not enough that X bad. We also need Bluesky good

This Labour government is building a railway Britain can be proud of and rely on.🇬🇧🚅🌹 www.lbc.co.uk/article/bett...

🕯️ Yevgeny Bondar, an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor, was killed by Russian shelling in Kherson. He survived Nazi persecution — only to die in Russia’s war on Ukraine. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

This seems bad.

The Tories’ Shadow Attorney General, Lord Wolfson, is representing Roman Abramovich in a legal case that is delaying the transfer of £2.5bn of assets to benefit the people of Ukraine. I’ve written to Kemi Badenoch about the conflicts of interest this raises. 👇