Why has everyone stopped mentioning Angela Rayner?

That’s that part done then.

Where is @samfr.bsky.social when I need to be told what I think?

Here we go

Lewis Goodhall nailing the problem with Starmer’s speech.

I like Gordon Brown and Harriet Harman, but this just looks even more like a desperate Prime Minister. I wasn’t just a Labour member a year ago. I was a Labour member and I supported Starmer. He has to go.

Anyone want to buy my two tickets for Ellen Kent on farewell tour in Cambridge doing Carmen on Sunday. I completely forgot we had tickets and have not arranged childcare.

Went to the gym for the first time in seven plus weeks due to a broken wrist (which obviously I’ve barely mentioned to family and colleagues). I didn’t realise how quickly one becomes unfit. Vomited for twenty minutes afterwards after not taking it easy.

I’ve supported Weston-super-Mare since my Grandad took me to a 2-0 win against Dawlish in the 80s with about 200 people there. This year we made the FA Cup 3rd round. We have more points than ever before in the highest league we’ve ever been in. Today is the biggest league game in our history.

You can delegate what you like, but make sure you trust those you delegate to and check on what is important, because if you're the boss the one thing you can't delegate is accountability.

Very pleased to see phones in school will now be banned by law. This creates a very clear position from which schools can discuss this issue with parents, lessening any potential diminishing of relationship between school and home.

You can delegate what you like, but make sure you trust those you delegate to and check on what is important, because if you're the boss the one thing you can't delegate is accountability.

Everyone who has participated or paid for or otherwise supported this needs to be in jail and I will pay more taxes for more jails. I actually cannot believe what I am reading. Women can often not trust the men they are closest to and love.

The wisdom of the crowd was absent. We failed.

My bet was 5.30. I’m going to go for 6.30 after Bluesky’s influence, and return home if I’m not in the first twenty or so.

Help please. I need a few seconds of your time and I just need a very brief reply to a short thread. Just post a time. I need a 'best bet' here. Feel free to give your guess but please don't look at others' guesses before guessing. I am going to average it out and use the wisdom of the crowd.

Genuinely feel like if we hadn't had the Boris era of brazening things out - and I guess the Trump era - then Starmer would have gone today.

Oh thank goodness Iran has reopened it.

This kind of delay wasn't OK for Boris, and it is not OK for Keir. You will have asked what happened and you will know what happened, even in the event you didn't know last week. Tell us.

Mat partnership network: you are not a MAT, or a partnership, or a network. You just facilitate sales for companies that can’t find their own leads.

How are people still falling for the “stay in this hotel/ have dinner and meet lots of salespeople who’ve paid us for those meetings” scams? Also they are not work. We run schools.

They’ve got a strait, tbf.

The consultant looked at me and thought “nah you weren’t” right?

Feels like the US media and TV stations shoulder a lot of responsibility right now - and that is, to put it mildly, incredibly unhealthy.

He's a total maniac.

"Iranian civilisation will die tonight" That's about as chilling as anything I've ever heard from any world leader.

During the pandemic, a few of us set up a poker club that plays online and has simultaneous Zoom. It still happens, though there are only 6 of us that play regularly. If you like poker and enjoy a chat, join us (game tonight). DM if interested. if you don't, that's ok.

Two petrol stations in my town closed. Big queue of HGVs and others at the other. Last time this happened we couldn’t get fuel 24 hours later and from everything I’ve read this will be longer an more difficult. Strap in. 😬

Mad thing is if someone asked me how much an *adult size* England shirt was, I’d imagine about £50 and also think that was extortionate. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Life goals.

The Greens need a quick and robust response to these horrific Whatsapps and narratives. And even then much damage is done. I’m shocked.

Can’t find anything to disagree witg here.

My three year old eating breakfast well. Coffee. 6 music. Watching 3yo playing with toys. This is Saturday morning at its best.

New from me. Things Can Get Worse. On why I think the white paper is likely to make things worse. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

I was in Tescos lately and a woman bought a single packet of frozen Quorn when it was in a 3 for 2 offer and it has bothered me ever since.

I'm genuinely sad that I campaigned as a member for Labour to be elected, and alongside the mess in schools, we get this. I knew there would be things I disagree with - including on immigration - but I didn't realise I was campaigning for a party with very different values to mine.

Terrific piece by @bennewmark.bsky.social on SEND and inclusion in England

This is so important. The same words we use don’t mean the same thing to everyone. This is even the case within schools. Ask your Sendco what it means and then ask your AHT for T&L.

There's a whole army of parents and 'experts' who would battle to defend the value of movement breaks, fidget toys, and other 'adaptations' - it's hard for any school to counter that alone, and harder still when we're being told we must put *something* on paper for each individual

SENCO and AP for T&L are basically the same job. Or should be at least.

New. Things Can Get Worse. On why the SEND crisis is worse than ever because nobody is facing the philosophical contradictions. bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

This bit is exactly what I thought when I saw the latest 'inclusion strategy' task for schools.

This is sad and Jonathan is not the only one.

I agree with everything Ben’s saying here and I think it’s so important for these things to be said. The direction of travel is worrying me a lot.

Absolutely spot on. Also, inclusion needs funding, a serious amount of funding that I’m pretty sure isn’t going to happen.

Very intelligent from @bennewmark.bsky.social on the proposed SEND reforms. Would be great if the government are listening: bennewmark.wordpress.com/2026/03/26/t...

I am coming to the conclusion that the proposed SEND reforms are a mess, and while there are things I welcome, on the whole I think they make things worse for: - pupils with SEND - families - other pupils - schools - (probably) the public finances - the government.

Donald Trump is partway through single-handedly rescuing Starmer’s premiership.

Too many speeches clearly structured by chatGPT and I’m realising quite late that this is why the content of so many speeches or contributions is vague and feels truthy but in substance is boring.