Yes, but the Secretary of State called for resilience and said kids had to be in school if schools were open What will it take for this unhinged obsession with attendance at ANY cost to stop? Does someone actually have to die? I think the answer to that is yes. Yes, they do.

Why do so many kids in the UK hate school? they ask. It's a complete bloody mystery.. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...

The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".

@mrjamesob.bsky.social The freezer aisles in my local Sainsbury's are all shut this morning, and it looks like they've failed in the heat.

Oh ffs Scotland. You can't piss about at the back like that, and expect to get away with it.

I heard the author of this article in a podcast. Fascinating story. Some day there should be a film made about these women.

How difficult would it be, really, to put him in a Truman Show style simulation, where he still thinks he is in charge?

Lily loves this time of night. ##Caturday

I'm old enough to remember grace and dignity in the WH.

I dunno, but maybe Iran has the Epstein files...?

Bakers - what can I use instead of Stevia in low carb cakes please? I've only added half of the amount in the recipe and it's too sweet, and there's that bitter after taste seeping through. (Otherwise the cake is banging) Don't usually bake with artificial sweeteners so I'm a bit in the dark.

Happy 80 birthday to Slade guitarist and vocalist Noddy Holder!

Labour risks handing power to Reform without drastic change, says Andrea Egan www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Speaking to Iain Watson, BBC Today, ahead of her first speech as UNISON general secretary this week to the union’s national conference #r4Today #uNDC26

There has been no success whatsoever we Brexit other than a blue passport not even made in the UK Both Johnson and Farage should be in prison www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

You don't get rich by spending it.

My school-hating child after her last exam: "I feel light as a feather, like a weight has been lifted from me. "13 years of hell are over.."

The same employers who witter on about young people lacking the basic social skills, see nothing wrong with not bothering to tell job applicants that they have not been successful. www.ft.com/content/2af1...

I think we know the answer ..

The end result will be no skills education, because no exam means it doesn't count. Because everything has to be measured by a formal exam. How about just teaching for its own sake? The absolute state of this education system

Russian male life expectancy is 68. Median income is £8,200. Freedom of speech and association is virtually non-existent. You've got to be a prize idiot to believe they're getting *anything* right. Who's shocked to find Yaxley-Lennon fits that bill?

Musk continues to stoke race wars in the U.K. using his platform to do so. It’s feeble how little power we are exercising against X.

Anyone else having problems accessing Duolingo #duolingo today?

Interesting first-person article on sendsationafutures.com today, written by a SEND parent, about how her relationship broke down with her son's headteacher, and the devastating impact this had. sendsationalfutures.com/parental-sup...

If this was the women's World Cup, and players, coaches and referees were being refused entry and disrespected, I'd like to think they'd show some backbone and refuse to play, rather than watch the abuse and humiliation of others in silence, like the men are.

This world cup has demonstrated FIFA's complete betrayal of the game of football and its determination to sell its soul to the highest bidder. The peace prize for Trump was part of a systematic pattern of corruption and exploitation of fans. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's always the female journalists who call him out. Always.

Just been telling my aunt in Poland about the GCSE system and how some kids are sitting upwards of 20 papers in 9 or more subjects over 6+ weeks. As I was saying it out loud it made me realise how utterly bonkers this is. No wonder we have a mental health problem among young people.

How's your peace prize and world cup going for you, Fifa? You utter bunch of clowns.

Look, just pay the relocation costs for me and my family, and our animals, and l'm outta here.

Oh, that's sad..

You want to see Norway men’s national football team’s official photo for World Cup 2026 www.nytimes.com/athletic/733...

Shameless plug her for the website I edit, sendsationalfutures.com It's your go-to for all things SEND whether you're a teacher, Senco, parent or work in a local authority or MAT. There's something for everyone. It's been a labour of love for me the past year. Please pay us a visit and take a look.

Just realised it's 40 years since I left. The Attenborough building, named after the great man and family who lived locally, where i had all my lectures. Back today as a #parkrun tourist. Conjuring up lots of memories though some of the campus has changed beyond recognition.

Free the robots!

This is a great thread

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

Must just be some mad coincidence that all the Putin apologists find themselves in a party run by a bloke that really admires Putin

Fox News spent four years diagnosing Biden from the angle of his left shoelace. Trump turns into a peeled nectarine and suddenly everyone’s a privacy advocate.

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Sky News is STILL LYING about Brexit! Trevor Phillips claimed nobody in the EU wants us back, despite the EU Parliament saying the exact opposite YESTERDAY! He even repeated Boris Johnson's BUS LIE!!!

💥 70,000 signatures! 💥 ...and the petition closes on June 8th. Imagine if we can get it over 100,000 before then - and open a Parliamentary debate in time for the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote on June 23rd 2026. That'd be powerful. All hands to the pump! Sign and share, share, share! 👇

From the same walk. Isn't this quite beautiful? Again no idea what it is but growing from tree branch close to the ground.

Spotted in a wood by us. Dead tree covered in what looks like cobwebs with something growing in little pockets. Anyone know what's going on here?

Billionaire Brexit backers worry that the Brexit they bought to enrich themselves and remove our rights, regulations & protections is now such an evidential disaster for ordinary people that even 22% of leavers still alive would like to rejoin yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

Farage and Reform are a malignant, racist cancer in our country and everybody must wake up to this.

This is just weird. Loads of these were originally written in other languages and are translated, so how can they count? And it doesn't include Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz which is an epic and a masterpiece, so this list is highly flawed. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

There are 5 sitting Reform MPs who are former Conservative MPs. They all think Labour should call a General Election now that Andy Burnham may be coming back, yet none of them considered stepping down and triggering a bye-election when they defected to Reform. Hypocrites all!

Policy Exchange continues with its programme to push Trumpism in the UK - and the hapless Charity Commission continues to funnel public money to Policy Exchange. A total joke.

Anyone else on @duolingoverde.bsky.social unable to access any content? Had a problem since yesterday evening and keep getting an error message.