Huge congratulations to @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social, who was announced as the winner of the prestigious 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Writing during today's IBBY Annual Press Conference at the Bologna Children's Book Fair. Fully deserved!

I am genuinely thrilled to see this, and if it feels like no big deal to you, I would refer you to five years ago, when people in Westminster hyped the Turing scheme& argued that Erasmus was pointless anyway since British students did not like to go abroad.

No principles, no morality, no information, no expertise, just endlessly appeasing Trump, Putin, Netanyahu and assorted billionaires and foreign oligarchs or chasing the next headline, until suddenly colliding with reality. Bang, oof. www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

Farage's claims here are straightforward lies (and it's about time the media/press said so) The correct figures are 160K (0.3%) and 900K (1.5%) www.gbnews.com/news/video-n...

Struggling to find the words to describe the utter reckless vandalism of this sickening move - deliberately making millions of people sicker & less secure in order to enrich billionaire polluters

It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious

Lets call it as it is.. MSM worked tirelessly to undermine Labour & Starmer since the Election ❌ They’ve been promoting Farage & Reform daily, Reform has just 6 MPs but BBC had them on multiple times over LibDems with 72 MPs❌ Tories scandal after scandal & got kid gloves❌ #MSMNeedsBalanceNotBias

Since #bbclaurak is trending, let’s remind ourselves that ONE MONTH ago, the BBC invited Mandelson on for a soft-ball interview on her show. While HIS CLIENT , Palantir’s Louis Moseley appeared as a pundit Both, as I wrote at time, were ‘abject failures of journalism’ 1/

A lot of racists in UK media & politics are currently limbering up to hold Donald Trump to an infinitely lower moral standard than they did Gary Lineker. Starting with Farage, inevitably…

He is a monster.

One of the things we learned during our High Court case against Reform is its propensity, nakedly and without embarassment, to lie. Only the blissfully naive would take its explanation for this at face value.

I feel bad for the presenters of the BBC Winter Olympics coverage, currently trying to make puffer jackets seem interesting as they grasp for anything to say.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

You might not have seen this. I pinned it a while ago. It nails many things about Trump, but not least why he so hates the Obamas. Every time they appear in the media, they throw brutal shade on what a moral and intellectual vacuum he is. groups.google.com/g/usaafricad...

Johnson culled the Tory Party of all but its grimmest dregs & now the grimmest of the grimmest dregs are defecting to Reform. It would be funny if it didn't alllow them, along with Farage, to pretend that they're not responsible for the state of the nation.

When you think of health and safety laws and human rights laws as “obstructive bureaucracy”, stopping you being as vicious and damaging as you want to be to immigrants - who you encourage voters to blame for your own abject failures - you’ve become a monster. Let’s hope it ends up devouring itself.

Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him. The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE. 1/

Trump has collected a squalid collection of murderers, warmongers and oppressors and declared it to be a Board of Peace. Beyond appalling. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wrote this poem the day after Renee Good was murdered - it’s about how the media and politicians immediately dehumanised her. I have had a few people ask “who wrote it?” So I am putting it up again - written in anger

Here's the thing about the DfE idea that 'training is the answer' to SEND. It implies that once again the issue lies with teachers and not with the system itself. A way of papering over the cracks rather than admitting that the system needs rethinking if it's ever going to be properly inclusive.

Reducing Reception class sizes has a positive impact on children's development, who would have thought it?!!! Well done Shackleton Primary School - we just need DfE to take notice. www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Jenrick on Farage: "I don't think Nigel is the bloke you want to have running your kids' schools or running your local hospital or... trust your savings, your pension, your small business to." (Sept 2025) "I don't think he's a serious politician. I don't think he's got the answers." (Oct 2024)

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

Nothing says "Ofcom is seriously considering strong sanctions against X" like the fact that they are using X as the primary social media site for publicising their action.

Reform UK, which says it represents “change” from Conservative failures, has so far accepted defections from: - A disgraced Tory minister sacked for tax-dodging - Disgraced Tory vice chairman suspended for racism - Disgraced former minister suspended for abandoning constituents for a reality TV gig

Fools.

Because our politics is in such a terrible place, I think we downplay quite how awful Kemi Badenoch has been. In any other era the leader of the Conservatives saying 'only migrants commit sex crimes - mass deportations now' would have not just been career ending but would've sunk the whole party

It's more and more blatantly obvious that Reform is not a serious party and should never be in government. Surely even their supporters must eventually realise that? www.tes.com/magazine/new...

🚨🚨Major very welcome news of the day: EU’s #Erasmus scheme to reopen to UK students for first time since #Brexit. Hopefully a return to more constructive EU-UK relationship. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Horrific scenes from Sadiq Khan's Sharia law infested London 🎄

This is a really appalling editorial error on BBC Question Time "Apparently one in three children don't speak English as a first language, why does this matter?" Chair says "have English as a second language" Caption changes the meaning entirely "Don't speak fluent English"

🧵 Is it a super flu year? Who knows, but I think the current reporting is stupid. A pissed off thread using data. Firstly - here are today's headlines and some from the last 3 years... spot the difference. 1/10

Great thread.

The real asylum scandal is the incompetence of the Home Office inews.co.uk/opinion/the-...

Only way to handle this sort of bullying nonsense from the Orange Ego - ignore it & keep in with reliable friends www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

I only recently listened to this extraordinary 10 part podcast - Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring by @peterjukes.bsky.social and @carolecadwalla.bsky.social . It’s gripping, chilling, and deeply disturbing. The facts of Russian intrusion into UK politics laid bare, in horrifying fashion.

You couldn't make it up. Hidden landfills at risk of leaching toxic waste into our drinking water - made worse by flood risk heightened by climate change. www.theguardian.com/environment/... This is a disgusting mess and our leaders need to sort it out.

The idea that I would ever work with Tories is absurd. If you don't believe me just ask Lee Anderson, Nadine Dorries, Danny Kruger, Andrea Jenkyns, Jonathan Gullis, Sarah Pochin, Jake Berry, Marco Longhi, Peter Bone...

I’m getting bored with this type of fuckwittery … boo hoo hoo it’s not called Christmas anymore. 1. Evergreen tree is a type of tree 2. Mince pies have never been called Christmas pies 3. Turkey is too expensive! Grow up England or please just go independent and leave the rest of us alone.

This is not just John Birch Society stuff. It's worse than that and that kind of dangerous language should have absolutely no place in British politics. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well - thank you Labour for this. It’s a start 🥰

You know I do sometimes wonder exactly when this 'progressive age' was in education that self-styled 'traditionalists' rail against because surely if it was such a disaster we'd see it in exam results? I've been in education for 30+ years and imo very little has massively changed. 1/3

What a speech! I wish someone in the UK would do similar on Boris Johnson and/or Nigel Farage, particularly focusing on what Farage was actually doing on Brexit night (there will be some who know, and records that could be called in by an inquiry.)

Lee Anderson interviewing his mate but pretending he is an independent voter. So easy, but he still can't do it right.

I would be amazed if the grifter fessed up.... But let's hope more witnesses come forward over time, and destroy his grift www.theguardian.com/politics/202...