When I consider the years of work it took to get teachers comfortable using a laptop to help their daily work load this is a considerable uptick in speed of tech adoption. It suggests that a lot of the old technophobia amongst education people in general, and teachers in particular, has reduced.

That’s right, report a big number now because you can’t report the fact that the crossings are down by a third this year. That wouldn’t fit your narrative.

Appointing Gordon Brown is not a ringing endorsement of Rachel Reeves and possibly points to some intention to “stretch” the fiscal rules.

There are lots of questions I want to ask Reform people, mostly starting "about that five million quid", but it would be a shame to let this moment from Robert Jenrick slip past unnoticed. thecritic.co.uk/toda...

This will also have a significant impact on election outcomes. Obviously.

Biggest lesson of the day? What an absolute mess the British democratic system is. First past the post, several different types of proportional representation. Mayors is in some places councils, local councils, parish councils. It’s such a ridiculous mish-mash of power at a different levels.

Some advice for government. Don’t talk about building wind farms, build them. Don’t talk about building solar farms, build them. Don’t talk about building battery storage, build it. Don’t talk about building SMRs, build them. Suspend the meetings, get the shovels and stick them in the ground.

The bathroom is coming along.

Imho politician abuse the electorate more than the other way round. Deliberately speaking in a way to convey an untruth to a voter is a form of abuse. Stop this first.

If you’ve ever wondered how, given the relative scarcity of Jews in the country, antisemitism has spread so far and wide, here’s a likely vector. The billionaire owned press has become a terrible influence on our country, an influence out of sync with its size and primary reach.

Any one who’d been paying the slightest attention during the past half century would have been aware of this.

Don’t listen to any politician until they have first told you, with workings, how they intend to solve this problem.

Anything longer than “Corrupt Tory dead.” Is a waste of ink.

If you’re constantly making deranged narcissistic posts on social media I’m not sure you need any further cognitive testing.

Incredible chart (from otherwise depressing news story about bad advice being given to new parents) showing how cot deaths fell by 50% in the first year after the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was launched, and have continued to fall since. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I guess we’ll find out now just how much the Chelsea crowd care about their team.

No really good reason to have shown that again.

I mean, I can’t stand Chelsea, but how can that not be a penalty.

For Star Wars day, give us your top 10 sci-fi films: T1 T2 Aliens Close Encounters Looper Deja Vu Gravity The Martian The Empire Strikes Back The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

It’ll be nice to deny Arsenal the title and relegate Spurs in the same match. It would be really nice. Still, if wishes were horses….

Reforms latest policy announcement.

Basically, I think sixty year olds have been driven mad by years of Covid followed by the realisation they still have to wait 7 years before they get their pension.

Stop telling me I have to listen to these peoples “legitimate concerns”. Just stop.

The irony of the once bald Wayne Rooney arguing against red cards for hair pulling. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Thank goodness for that. F1 was in danger of becoming interesting to watch, but with a few simple tweaks of the rules they’ve turned it back into the procession of mobile advertising hoardings the FIA seems to love.

I’m of the opinion that using an AI to convert my bank statement from PDF to machine readable CSV format is of net benefit to me and risks neither my brain melting nor an error significant enough to bring the world to an end.

Got my WHUFC top on again. So far we’ve won every time I’ve worn it on match day. Yes, I know it was only once so far BUT THAT’S NOT THE POINT!!! #COYI

I think the Wrexham story is one of the best there has ever been in football. Hope it goes well today.

I welcome the sunlight being shone by this article but the claim there is no shame in being paid by plutocrats for your political service is risible.

It’s entirely possible that Leeds won’t get another point after tonight, making this game quite important to them.

Perhaps if people started framing these stories as “Crypto-criminals seek access to worlds most sophisticated financial markets by buying politicians” the electorate might see what they’re being asked to facilitate.

How about we sort out the “adults” on social media before we pile more PowerPoints on the kids at school? Fed up with gutless politicians reaching for schools as the answer to all their problems. Let them take on the tech billions before they start on teachers again.

I see some people getting stressed the chief of the MPS told off Zack Polanski. Not sure there’s a problem here, Polanski isn’t an elected official.

Taxi for Polanski.

The US is no longer a functioning democracy in any sense of the word as we understand it.

The nature of social media algorithms means that politicians “liking” posts isn’t simply virtue signalling, it’s campaigning.

Bloody hell! I thought last nights game was free scoring!

The problem here is that the problem isn’t that a billionaire can give a politician £5m it’s that the only problem is that it wasn’t declared. Such donations are corrupting and should be illegal in and of themselves. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looked off to me.

“You don’t have any dance cards!”

Badenoch is a hypocritical political opportunist in calling for Starmer to face the privileges committee. Starmer should have resigned when his lack of judgement in appointing Mandelson was exposed. Both are true.

A choice between the devil and the deep blue c.

McSweeney: Before we appoint a minister “we have to ask the Kings permission”. This is what we should be discussing.

I’m no expert in these matters but it seems odd to me the number of times the US President and the Vice President appear together. Feels like more than for any other administration.

A fight you definitely want them both to lose.

I wonder how many “safe” seats he’ll have to burn through in order to get himself elected as an MP? This sounds less like a plan and more like a Ripping Yarn. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

PL table for 2026 calendar year. This helps explain why WHUFC will be safe and why THFC are doomed.

Yes, it’s so important to spend parliamentary time legislating to make schools do things that…<<checks notes>>…they already do. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The usual political crisis question is “What did you know and when did you know it?” Starmers answer is “At all time, nothing.”

Starmers real problem is that Mandelson has too many enemies who are still Labour MPs.