I have a friend, who specialised in how genetics is taught, whose grant was axed by one of these men. His life is in tatters, and his work matters.

So well done, DFE, you have continued to turn up the heat on the pressure cooker situation Gove created in England’s state schools, where teachers, parents and children are stressed to the max all the time. More tone-deaf domestic governance.

One for your diaries - celebrating the tenth anniversary of @thames21.bsky.social London Rivers Week - 23rd to 31st May. A great range of activities across the week; exploring the rivers Beck, Ravensbourne & Wandle. Also photo walks, art exhibitions and much more www.thames21.org.uk/events/categ...

Delightful thread ⬇️

WTAF?

Out today

After a widespread public consultation, 60% of people voted to see nature on our bank notes. But why let that stop me stirring up my moron base by pretending it's the Bank of England being woke.

The Tories and Reform UK have abandoned British interests to become ideological satellites of radical US conservatism. The Guardian calling Badenoch and Farage out for their blind allegiance to Trump in preference to Britain www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Thread, to lift your spirits ⬇️

I still think about this a lot.

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The bullshit excuses came thick and fast… while any attempt at charm quickly drained away… More of this please, media. He’s there to be had. There’s a mess of nasty inadequacy and failure lurking behind his oh-so-confident bluster. bsky.app/profile/kitb...

Zionists don't like this truth... Wonder why.

Labour MPs just voted to expand free school meals to half a million more children, lifting 100,000 children out of poverty. The Tories and Reform UK voted against. Only Labour will give children growing up in our country the best start in life.

With free to read link as.ft.com/r/1754a96b-d...

Don't Forget Gaza and the Palestinians Israel is using the illegal war on Iran to continue to kill and starve Gaza, steal more Palestinian land, and restrict movement in the West Bank. Don't look away. Read Diana Buttu's piece: zeteo.com/p/dont-forge...

Interesting thread ⬇️

"With every passing day, the decision of Starmer and his cabinet looks wiser and wiser."

The finest take down of the institution of monarchy and "class" and the grasping, greedy, venal, entitled, and very stupid people it enables that you will read today or any day. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

This came up on my Facebook page. There are hundreds of comments beneath it and the vast majority are heartening in their support of Starmer.

Can anyone remember who it was who deliberately degraded our armed forces? Think it began with C... Anyone? Certainly not asking about it on #BBCR4Today

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"Human Rights Watch warns that Israel is deploying white phosphorus over civilian homes in Lebanon. It is highly dangerous, capable of setting buildings ablaze & causing severe, life-threatening burns to human flesh. HRW's Lebanon researcher: 'Israel's actions are unlawful & extremely alarming'"

Farage wonders what he’s going to say, having bigged up flying 4,500 miles out to Mar-A-Lago for “diner with Trump” to discuss the Chagos Islands with his “friend” But Trump does a no show, instead staying somewhere else, totally ignoring Farage 🤭🤣🤣😂 #NigelNoMates 🤭

"Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement." ~ Albert Camus Le Moulin de la Galette (1886) 🎨 Vincent Van Gogh

Here's our 🎶 parody version of Barry McGuire's 1965 "Eve of Destruction" that we've modernised to turn to current US adventurism. We're calling it: "Grief and Destruction" 🚀 youtu.be/QLBjeM53iBI

I see Zack Polanski is back to his disingenuous, dishonest point scoring. I think that Zack will discover that most of the public believe that Starmer's approach is the correct one. Starmer has said the attack is illegal, albeit very diplomatically but he has done so.

Sunday thread ⬇️

Marie Maynard Daly co-discovered the link between high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the clogged arteries that can cause heart disease and strokes. She also studied the damage that cigarettes have on the heart & lungs. adalovelaceday.subst...

New video footage shows a US Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC facility in Minab, Iran, on Feb 28, showing for the first time that the US struck the area. The footage also shows smoke already rising from the vicinity of the girls’ school, where 175 people were reportedly killed, including children.

I thought the best person to talk to Laura Kuenssberg about the important moral and ethical issues of the day would be Robert Jenrick, the man who overruled a planning decision to save a billionaire pornographer £45m in exchange for a £12,000 donation.

I’m sorry, what? How can Chelsea & Westminster Hospital’s official charity *possibly* accept a £1 million ‘donation’ - meaning, in reality, an attempt to buy public credibility - from the Sacklers? Yes, those Sacklers, whose company, Purdue Pharma, caused >800k deaths from pumping out opioids. 1/3

On #IWD2026, it feels fitting to sing the praises of this extraordinary book, read beautifully by Emma Thompson. If you’ve yet to read it, please do. Gisèle Pelicot’s strength, courage & basic human decency ring out from its pages - as does the grotesque misogyny of her courtroom experience...

Boris Johnson says Keir Starmer has made us an irrelevance on the world stage...

@georgepenney.bsky.social A woman (60s) has returned from walking her lively cockapoo, to find a parcel hanging from the letterbox inside her door. She smiles broadly & her heart lifts. She's been anticipating this moment. Cockapoo grabs the parcel & pulls it out, dropping it at the woman's feet.

Videos shared online falsely claim Keir Starmer banned New York mayor Zohran Mamdani from the UK, after Mr Mamdani supposedly said the UK had “lost its moral compass” at an event they both attended. But no such event happened, and he hasn’t been banned.

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“Dear Diary, Super excited to say that I’ll be serving my Clacton constituents today by flying to Mar-a-Lago to meet Donald Trump and to undermine the UK government. God I love being a patriot!”

Dear Shabana, Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Festival thread, full of fun ⬇️🎭

"When one political actor receives the overwhelming share of attention & the majority of headlines are negatively framed, the overall narrative effect may skew public perception" Is the BBC biased against Keir Starmer? eastangliabylines.co.uk/news/is-the-...

“High standards and inclusion are two sides of the same coin.” After reading the white paper carefully and discussing it during a SENCo forum this week, I’ve written on the shift in language, and what some of this might mean for schools in practice. moderncassie.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-sh...

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows. Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down. www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...

Cheerful thread ⬇️

Why does she *never* get her facts straight? Absolutely useless.

At this week’s Prime Minister's Questions, Kemi Badenoch claimed Type 45 destroyers “cannot take out incoming missiles”. In fact, they can. The Ministry of Defence says their primary role is air defence, including against missiles.

Badenoch was disgraceful at #PMQs today. People are terrified about the war in the Middle East. What was needed was a mature respectful exchange. It shouldn’t have been an opportunity for her to try and score cheap points about the welfare state whilst baying for escalation no one wants.